DOVER - With only one veteran returning this season, the Strasburg High School Tigers will be represented by a highly inexperience basketball team this season. The Tigers, who open the 1958-59 slate tonight on the home floor against the Beach City Pirates, are under the 1st-year tutelage of Head Coach Ernest Raber, a native of Sugarcreek.
Raber replaces Chuck Caniford, who now devotes full time duties to coaching the football team and being the high school's Principal. Junior 6-2 Frank Wallick is the lone returnee from last year's squad which compiled an 11-8 record. However, his action was limited to the extent that it was just enough for him to gain a Varsity letter.
Another letter winner last season, Senior Nick Haswell, is not on the squad this season. "We definitly have very little or no experience to speak of," commented the new Strasburg mentor yesterday afternoon. "We are attempting to build for the future and with only one Senior on the squad that should be evident. We don't expect to burn up the League this season, but we'll still be in there battling to win our share. With more experience, I think these boys will do all right," he added.
Coach Raber will be building his team around the following:
Junior Frank Wallick 6-2 Center
Junior Don Grove 5-6 Guard
Junior Larry Wallick 5-7 Guard
Junior Walt Krantz 5-11 Guard
Junior Charles Duff 5-11 Forward
Junior Dale Liggett 5-11 Forward
Junior Bill Seese 6-1 Forward
Junior Herb Gerber Reserve
Sophomore Tom Jones Reserve
Sophomore Ray Deibel Reserve
The lone Senior on the squad is 6-0 Bill Dreher. Raber will be starting a quintet comprised entirely of Juniors.
Friday, November 21, 1958
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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