Smithfield High School - Smithonian Yearbook (Smithfield, OH)

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BASKETBALL DURING THE LAST THREE SEASONS IN BASKETBALL SMITHFIELD HIGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN ON THE MAP ALL OVER OHIO, SPORT FANS HAVE HEARD OF bMITHFlELO, WATCHEO THE RUCORDS OF GAMES WON AND TREHBLED WHEN THEIR TEAM HAD TO PLAY THE SPARTANS IN THL FA SONS OF I959-40 AND I94O-4l WE PLAYED THE STATE CHAMPS IN T E STATE TOURNAMENT MANY FINE TROPHIES wERE ADDED TO OUR COLLECTIONS AND A FINE NEw CASE WAS BUILT T0 ENHANCE THEIR BEAUTY JURIN: THESE SEASONS bHARLES MCCLAIA wAs TH' COACH :NO GEORGE FRANCISCO ASSISTANT THEIR NAMES TOGETHER WITH ED ZINK, MAx BURRISS, 'IM MURPHY, BILL FOSTER, ART PHILLIPPI, NED FERRARI,RALPH CAMPBELL,AND FRANK CIBULYA, WILL LONG BE REMEMGERED IN SMTHFIELD ATHLETIC HISTORY WlTH'ME THRILL OF VICTORY STILL SURGING THROUGH THEIR VEINS'UE SPARTANS HTFREU THE I94l 42 SEASON UNDER THEIR NEW COACHES GEORGE FRANCISCO, AND PAUL HANGE. I THOUGH1HE DPARTANS HAD LOST ALL OF THEIR vETERANS,ExcEPT FRANK CIaULKA,THEY ST LL RETAINEO THE SPARTAN SPIRIT IN THEIR FIRST GAME WITH BRILLIANT, THE SPARTANS SHOW THAT THE BLACK AND GOLD'S POWER WAS STILL IN ITS TEAM ANY TEAM THAT COLLD SCORE SEVENTY POINTS CERTAINLY WAS OUT TO SUALP' THE FINAL SCORE wAS 70 TO I9 WAYNE PROUED A SMALL UINK, GIVING DMITHFIELD A LITTLE TROUBLE HOWEVER we DOUBLED THE SCORE 20 TO I4 ,RONDALE'S SCRAPPY BOYS WERE A HIGHLY RATED TEAM DEFENSlVELYo THE SPARTANS CON QUERED THEM TWICE DURING THE SEASON THE FINALS WERE 25 T0 20 AND 55 T0 50 OUR EXCHANGE OF GAMES WITH AMSTERDAM wAS ERUITFUL ON BOTH OCCASIONS THE DUTCH MEN SEEMEO WEAK AFAINST THE POWERFUL DPARTANS NHEN THE WHISTLE eLEw, WE WERE LEADING 54 TO 22 AND 42 TO 27 THE ONCE FAMOUS DADIZ CARD.NALS FELL AS UICTIMS Ou SUDSTITUTES PROFITED HERE THE SCORE WAS 46 TO 26 YORKVILLE wAS THF ONLY TEAM T0 OBTAIN TWO vIcToRIES OVER THE bPARTANS. BOTH WERE CLOSE UNTIL THE FINAL QUARTER THE SCORES OF THE GAMES WERE 54 T0 46 AND 55 TO 56 THE SPARTANS DROPPEO ONE GAME T0 DILLONVALE, LOSING BY A SMALL MARGIN ON THE NIGHT RIDERS' OWN FLOOR HOWEVER OUR BOYS HAD LITTLE DIFFICULTY ON THEIR HCME COURT. FINAL SCORES WERF 55 TO 50 AND 22 T0 50 BERGHOLZ HAD BEEN SLATED A SURE WINNER BUT THE BLACK AND GOLD, AFTER NIP TUCK BATTLES ENDED VICTORIOUSLY BOTH T'MES JHEN ALL WAS OVER THE SCORES READ 2810 25 AND 25 TO 22 ONLY ONE GAME WAS SCHEDULED WITH ADENA THE GOLDEN WAVE MADE GOOD PRACTICE FOR OUR SECOND STRINGERS THE SCORE WAS 64 T0 24. OUR GAME WITH JEFFERSON UN ON CMANIATED IN ANOTHER bPARTAN VICTORY. THE TALL FARM BOYS COULD HANDLE THE BALL BUT HAD DIFFICULTY IN MAKING THEIR SHOTS AGAIN THE Suas PROFITEO THE SCORE wAS 55 TO I9 THE FIGHTING HILLTOPPERS FROM MT PLEASANT WERE DEFEATED BY THE DPARTANS ON OUR OWN FLOOR THE SCORE wAS TO 2I A WELL MANNERED, WELL BALANCED TEAM OF eovs FROM CLARINGTON FELL AGAINST A UOLLEY OF BASKETS FROM THE SHOOTING BPARTANS, THE SCORE BEING 42 T0 55 SMITHFIELD JOURNEYED TO WINTERSVILLE ONLY T0 BRING BACK ANOTH R VICTORY THE GAME ENDED 49 TO 22 SEASON'S RATING GAMES WON I5,GAMES LOST 5 BUCKEYE LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP BUCKEYE RESERVE CHAMPIONSHIP JEFFEISON COUNTY TOURNAMENT VONSOLATION HINNER SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT DISTRICT TOURNAMENT SMITHFIELD 5I BOWERSTDN 5l SMITHFIELD 62 MACKSBURG 55 SMITHFIELD 47 BELMONT 27 SMITHFIELD 51 YORKUILLE 52 fx I an -.. L , 1 ' S . A . -N 1 H ' , I A I . u 1 I . L- I ,A ' O . E - I- L- - LL- IS . H . . A , 0 C C I I - Q a I . I - ' fs X. : U . In ,l L V O o e S - I I. o O I 1 ' , I 0 - I 7 5 o bl r ' P a .I . . 0 . nu ! 'N 7 in . o o 0 . U A - 46 . I I o ' I I P L O I . ' O 11 . iii ' I Q F' xi' ' I S

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