South High School - Lens Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Sourrr HIGH ANNUAL Review of the Football Season Hlhen the roll was called for the 1925 football season, Coach Bash had a neucleus of seven letter men around which to develop a team worthy to repre- sent South High on the gridiron. However, many new men reported which helped the chances of our school developing a championship eleven. After the 1925 gridiron year faded away the records showed that South High had again placed a powerful team in the High School race. Although not enjoying such an enviable record as the championship team of 1924, its string of victories and defeats arc well. worth mentioning. On September 26, South overcame the Dedication Hoodoo by easily down- ing Delaware, 19-0 in the initial game of the season on the new South High Athletic field. Mayor Thomas, Miss Juliette Sessons, and Mrs. H. R. Townsend gave con- gratulatory talks in the Dedication program. On the following week the Blue and Gray grid team traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, and Showing an entire reverse in form over the previous week, were handed a neat 22-0 lacing by Manual High School, National Champions of 1925. South High football warriors suffered their second defeat out of three starts at Springfield on October 10, returning home on the short end of a 12-0 score. South opened their local interscholastic football season October 17, by turn- ing in a win at the expense of NVest High, the score being 13-9. South 's aerial attack in the final minutes of play bewildered the Cowboys' defense. A game which looked like certain victory for the South Pig Skin Tossers was turned into a disastrous defeat October 23 when the Aquinas team came from behind in the closing minutes of play and defeated South 20-19. South High walloped North High 12-0 on November let. It marked the first victory of a Blue and Gray football team over that of a Maroon and Gold eleven in eight years. Captain Snyder, Ruh, Pettibone, and Grady were the stars in the attack of the southsiders, who outplayed their rivals in every phase of the game. Southis inability to kick goals cost them the undisputed championship of the city on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, when East defeated the Southern- ers by the close score of 14-12. Simpson 's spectacular 90-yard dash for a touch- down was the feature of the game. ' South's 20-0 victory over Central on December 2 brought about a quad- ruple tie for championship honors, East, North, and Aquinas being tied with South for first place. The great forward passing on the part of the Bulldogs featured this game. A , FINAL STANDING OF INTERSCHOLASTIC FOOTBALL LEAGUE WV. L. T. Pct. South . .. .... 3 2 0 .coo North . . .... 3 2 0 -500 East .... .... 3 2 0 .600 Aquinas . . . .... 3 2 0 .600 West .... .... 2 2 1 .500 Central . . .... 0 4 1 .000 i 101

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SOUTH :HIGH ANNUAL CHARLES PETTIB ONE Charles Pettibone was probably South 's most outstanding athlete of the past school year. He came to South from Ashville, Ohio, where he was a star 1n all major sports for three years. This was Pettibone's iirst and only year in local high school competition as he graduates in June. He participated in the three branches of major sports -football, basketball, and baseball--excelling in each. He was chosen for the fullback position on the local All-High teams in ad- dition to receiving a silver loving cup designating Southls most valuable foot- ball player. This cup will be placed in the trophy case and is to be presented annually to the most valuable player, whose name will be engraved upon it. In basketball he led his teammates in scoring and was sixth among the lead- ing individual scores of the city. His fine showing in the Central Ohio Tourna- ment Won for him the position as center on the All Central Ohio Team. He started out in baseball with a bang and although the Annual went to press too soon to account for his record in that sport, he will have maintained in all probability his previous reputation and made an excellent first baseman. Pettibone after graduating from South will enter either Ohio NVesleyan or Drake University. He will, no doubt, establish records at college which will reflect honor upon South High. 166

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