Dennison Railroaders Team Photo. Front: John Aldergate - Bob Johnston - Paul Whitmire - Ben Benedetto and Bill Johnston. Back: Dean Hunt - Dick Barth - Gene Wolfe - Don Galbraith - Harold Ramsey and Head Coach Dutch Furbay.
DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers and the Dennison Railroaders today were cagerly awaiting their crack at the Eastern Ohio District Class B Championship and a trip to Columbus as a result of winning final games in the Eastern Ohio Northern Sectional Tournament at Memorial Hall on Saturday night.
Strasburg, victors over the Midvale Blue Devils 25-23 in an overtime sudden-death tilt and Dennison, easy winner over the Tuscarawas Broncos 35-21, draw at Dennison tonight against the Philo Electrics and New Concord Little Muskies, winners of the Eastern Ohio Southern Sectional Tournament. Drawings will be held at 7:30PM in the Dennison High School building under supervision of Tournament Manager E.P. McCarroll and the 2 county teams will draw against the 2 other teams. The result will be that the county teams cannot meet until the final game.
When it comes to class, the Dennison Railroaders (16-5) seem to have it for Saturday night they eliminated the Tuscarawas Broncos (4-2) (18-5) with such precision the game seemed a walk-away. The 1st period was close, Dennison taking a 9-6 edge, but the Railroaders went in front by 17-7 by the halftime, holding Tusky's big Broncos to one point in the 2nd quarter.
With guard Dean Hunt and forward Harold Ramsey zipping 3 buckets through apiece and with their defense still clicking, the Railroaders went far ahead in the 3rd stanza, copping off a 30-13 lead and coasting through in the final period. Hunt scored 14 points in the game and gained game honors, while Ramsey followed with 9, center Don Galbraith 6 and forward Gene Wolfe with 5 markers for Dennison. Forward Clarence Rolli and center Fred Blackstone led Tuscarawas with 5 points apiece.
Secret of the Railroaders play seem to be that they have 5 fast and accurate passers, a man-to-man defense, which keeps their opponents from getting any kind of shots at the basket and a group of well-drilled spot shooters. During both their Sectional games they scored an average of 10 points a period for the 1st 3 periods, while holding their opponents to 5 or less points at the same time.
A zone defense is not the least baffling to them for they pass in, out and around it like veterans and when the Berlin Blue Jays came out with a man-to-man defense the other night, the Railroaders promptly opened up with a series of block plays that worked perfectly.
DENNISON RAILROADERS - 35
Harold Ramsey F 4-1-9
Gene Wolfe F 2-1-5
Don Galbraith C 2-2-6
Dick Barth G 0-0-0
Dean Hunt G 6-2-14
Ben Benedetto F 0-1-1
Bill Johnston F 0-0-0
TUSCARAWAS BRONCOS - 21
Earl Johnson F 0-0-0
Earl Myers F 1-0-2
Fred Blackstone C 1-3-5
Bob McDonald G 1-0-2
Bill Arthurs F 2-0-4
Les Johnson G 1-1-3
Clarence Rolli G 2-1-5
Monday, March 6, 1939
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: A crowd of 1,100 which attended the Class B Sectional at Memorial Hall here Saturday night brought gate receipts up to a par with last years, Tournament Manager D.C. Lemmon announced. Saturday night's crowd was by far the largest of the 3-day joust and helped to make up for a poor Friday night.
Box office at the tournament collected $770 from 2,287 fans who attended the 7 games, Lemmon said. Thursday night a total of 620 students and adults attended, while Friday night only 567 were present to see the games.
Most noticeable was the large crowd from Dennison, while on the other hand Strasburg, which brought hundreds of fans with it for the county tournament, didn't seem as well represented.
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