Midvale Blue Devils 1941 Basketball Team. Front: Charles Sogers - Bill Holmes - Glen Booth - Adrian Ford and John Downing. Back: Manager Tom Golder - Dale Ford - Vic Paris - Head Coach Pete Wolfe - Vic Cusano - Calvin "Tod" Hostetler and Manager Bob Meese. Absent: Lloyd Swinderman and Al Turrin.
Bolivar Cardinals 1941 Basketball Team. Front: Calvin Jones - Bill Zutavern - Russ Ross - Bud Ross - Warren Klink and Paul Cushing. Back: Manager Craig Reed - Don Lebold - Max Reed - Head Coach John Major - Bill Lebold - Joe Huffman and Assistant Manager Ray Weber.
DOVER - Defeat of the Bolivar Cardinals and Tuscarawas Broncos drops 2 of the 5 seeded teams out of the regular tournament, their only hope now being to win in the Consolation Division. Starting off with a bang...2 upsets being chalked up on the 1st night...the 19th Annual Tuscarawas County Class B Basketball Tournament opened last night at Memorial Hall with the Midvale Blue Devils eliminating the League Champions Bolivar, from regular tournament play with a resounding 34-20 defeat.
But Midvale wasn't the only team to turn in a spectacular triumph before the more than 1,800 fans who filled the hall to the walls...the Golden Panthers of Stone Creek scaled the heights to smash down any attempt of the Tuscaraws Broncos for a tourney title by dropping them into the Consolation Division 25-24 in an overtime contest. The remaining 2 games saw Mineral City struggle desperately against the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates, but lose 36-21 in the final period and the Strasburg Tigers showing a darkhorse team, turn back the Balic Eagles 43-25.
For basketball, the Midvale Blue Devils (1-0) (31-14)-Bolivar Cardinals (0-1) (25-21) game was the best offered fans as the colorful Cardinals...probably more unpredictable this year than any other recent year...opened with a crowd of approximately 1,400 paying admissions and staying until it was all over at 12:30AM. The Blue Devils, strengthened at the 2nd semester by the return of forward "Ace" Adrian Ford, member of last year's County Tournament Championship Team which went on to cop the District Title at Dennison and win its 1st game at Columbus before losing out in the State Tournament, have been coming along rapidly in the past few weeks and last night they had it.
Bolivar, defeated only once in 10 League games and by Midvale 35-32 at Midvale a month ago, couldn't get going at any time in the game because of Midvale's tight zone defense. Showing power that would not be denied, the Blue Devils took a 7-4 lead in the 1st quarter and were never headed. They led 16-10 at the half and 23-18 at the end of the 3rd period and killed off all Cardinal hopes by running their score up to 31-18 early in the 4th stanza. From here they coasted.
Adrian Ford was Midvale's point getter, sending 15 points through the nets, while center Bud Ross of Bolivar was 2nd high scorer with a total of 13 markers, more than half his team's total and all of which were scored in the first 3 periods. The game was cleanly played, the Cardinals drawing only 7 personal fouls and Midvale 12, but Bolivar was weak at the free throw line, shooting in only 6 of 13, while Midvale sank 6 of 9. Guard Jerry "Buzzy" Young was lost by the winners on personals.
Midvale handed Bolivar the League Championship last Monday night by dropping the Gnadenhutten Indians 39-36 and breaking a 2-way tie.
MIDVALE BLUE DEVILS - 34
Adrian "Ace" Ford F 7-1-15
Tod Hostetler F 0-2-2
Al Turrin C 2-1-5
Dale Ford G 3-1-7
Jerry "Buzzy"Young G 2-0-4
Vic Paris G 0-1-1
Glenn Booth F 0-0-0
John Downing F 0-0-0
Vic Cusano G 0-0-0
Lloyd Swinderman G 0-0-0
BOLIVAR CARDINALS - 20
Russ Ross F 1-0-2
Calvin Jones F 1-0-2
Bud Ross C 4-5-13
Warren Klink G 1-0-2
Bill Zutavern G 0-1-1
Paul Cushing F 0-0-0
Forest "Joe" Huffman G 0-0-0
Bill Lebold G 0-0-0
Max Reed F 0-0-0
Don Lebold C 0-0-0
Friday, February 21, 1941
John Stratton, Sports Writer
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: MIDVALE - First-year Head Coach Pete Wolfe of Midvale had his work cut-out for him as last year's team went all the way to the State Tournament, winning the county tournament and the Eastern Ohio District titles. Coach Wolfe had only one veteran member of the Championship team back, Guard Jerry "Buzzy" Young. Three members of the Reserve Team were also available, Bill Holmes, Al Turrin and Vic Paris who furnish the 1st replacements for the Wolfe team, while 3 others, Dale Ford, Lloyd Swinderman and Vic Cusano were outstanding among the new men.
BOLIVAR - Taking up right where he left off a year ago when his Cardinal cagers finished in a 3-way tie with the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates and the Midvale Blue Devils for the County Class B League Title, 2nd-year Head Coach George Wrentmore of the Bolivar Cardinals won this year's League Title outright. Coach Wrentmore had 3 lettermen, Bud Ross and Warren Klink, 2 of the county's outstanding stars and Paul Cushing, the latter a veteran of 3 campaigns on the hardwood floor as a Red Bird regular.
Bud Ross is a 6-foot 1-inch pivot man who provided the Cardinals with plenty of under-the-bucket punch this season and Warren Klink the lad who caused a sensation last year as a Freshman. Regulars lost last season included Russ Eberly, Ken Oberlin and Sam Notz. Replacements for the lost members of the Cardinal quintet came mainly from the Reserve Team where Coach Wrentmore had Bill Lebold, Bill Zutavern, Russ Ross, Forest Huffman and Max Reed. There is also Calvin Jones, a transfer from Strasburg. Russ Ross is a brother of Bud Ross and tops 6 feet.
John Major was hired to take over from Head Coach George Wrentmore as he had a military commitment and would resign as Head Coach, while Major took over coaching duties for the tournaments.
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