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60 - Gnaden Gets New Coaching Staff








GNADENHUTTEN - The Gnadenhutten Indians' High School coaching staff for the 1960-61 season was complete today with the announcement that Ron Sakola of New Philadelphia will be the head basketball coach and Ted Martin of Newcomerstown will serve as assistant cage and head baseball coach.

Sakola, Freshman football and basketball coach at New Philadelphia High School, was selected from among 17 applicants.  The Quaker mentor also assisted in track.  Martin is a former Gnadenhutten athlete.  He lettered 4 times in basketball, track and baseball before graduating in 1952.  For the past 2 years he has been coaching at Newcomerstown in both basketball and baseball.

The 2 replace Bob Gaume, who resigned the basketball post last month and Dick Ronald, an assistant who has been named head football coach at the Tuscarawas Broncos High School.  Sakola came to the New Philadelphia Quakers High School in 1959 from Elyria after serving as a Junior high assistant in football, basketball and track.  At Wittenberg University he played 2 years' Varsity basketball and later earned his B.S. Degree in Education at Miami University at Oxford.  The 23-year-old bachelor will also teach physical education, driver's education, science and serve as track coach.

Martin is a graduate of Marietta College where he starred in baseball.  He also played professional ball in Louisiana in the Milwaukee Braves' farm system.  He served as basketball and baseball coach at New Straitsville 2 years prior to accepting the Newcomerstown post.  Last season his Trojan baseballers were runner-up in the Sectional Tournament to the Dover Tornadoes, while this year's edition will make its debut in the joust today against Carrollton.

Father of 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls, Martin is married to the former Norma Schupp of Gnadenhutten.


Tuesday, May 3, 1960
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio

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