1930-31                                            Return to Year-by-Year                    HOME             Updated 5-29-2016

STATE CHAMPIONS  CLASS A: Newton   CLASS B: Buhler

                 TCHS started a more normal inter-scholastic schedule starting with the 1930-31 school year. Home games were played in a variety of places including Ripley Park, Roosevelt Jr. High and Crane Jr. High gymnasiums. Hayden coach was George Reid. Newspaper accounts of these games began to list box scores, but did not report much detail about the games. Rules of the era continued to contribute to low scoring. There was still a center jump after every made field goal.

                  One opponent, Christian Brothers of St. Joseph, MO, was guided by Coach Everett Shelton. He became a Hall of Fame coach in the NCAA. He won the national championship with Wyoming in 1943 and coached Henry Iba on an early AAU team. TCHS participated in a KSHSAA tournament for the first time during this season.

                  Depression era athletic programs struggled to stay in existance. There were a limited amount of jerseys available - sometimes the player coming out of a game had to give his jersey to the substitute. #


                     

 


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DATE TEAM W
OP
PLACE







12/12/30 Washburn Rural L 15 17
Ripley Park
12/19/30 KC-Pembroke Country Day (MO) W 20 12
Kansas City, MO
12/23/30 Emmett L


Ripley Park
1/2/31 Highland Park W 29 12
Highland Park
1/3/31 Emmett L


Emmett
1/10/31 St Mary's College HS L 15 20
St. Mary's
1/17/31 Seaman L 12 31
Roosevelt Junior High
1/23/31 Osage City L 10 14
Osage City
1/31/31 Highland Park W 33 8
Highland Park
2/3/31 Washburn Rural L 10 14
Whiting Fieldhouse
2/5/31 St Mary's College HS L 8 23
Crane Junior High
2/8/31 St Joseph-Christian Brothers (MO) ^ L 9 17
St Joseph (MO)
2/13/31 Leavenworth-IMAC L 21 22
Leavenworth
2/14/31 KC-Pembroke Country Day (MO) L 18 21
Ripley Park
2/20/31 Leavenworth-IMAC L 13 16
Ripley Park
2/21/31 Osage City W 14 12
Ripley Park
3/3/31 Seaman L 14 23
Seaman
3/13/31 Sabetha L 3 21 CLASS A Regional Sabetha










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                           Gilbert Reel                                                                                                                                        Coach George Reid

 

    

Player G FG FT TP





Ed Reel 11 29 9 67
Philip Lawlor 12 16 9 41
Gilbert Reel 12 16 6 38
Allan Peterson 12 14 1 29
Pete Marchetti 12 4 6 14
Don Grace 1 2 2 6
E. Landon 2 1 1 3
R. Kane 4 1 0 2
Adrian Waters 3 0 1 1
Edward Spetter 6 0 0 0
I. Cavanaugh 1 0 0 0
Clarence Quinton 3 0 0 0
F. Kroll 2 0 0 0
12/23/30 Emmett


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1/3/31 Emmett


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1/23/31 Osage City


10
2/8/31 CR Bros


9
2/13/31 LV-IMAC


21
3/13/31 Sabetha


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Still attempting to find out scores of games with Emmett  and individual scoring as noted above. Hayden yearbook (SHAMROCK) does not list the games with Emmett. The TDC & TSJ newspapers make reference to the dates and the fact that TCHS lost the games. That is the way it stands unless information becomes available at a future date.

# John Haynes - Class of 1967 - story his father told him - John Haynes, Sr Class of  1932 ?