A History of the Indiana Pocket Athletic Conference
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Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10484/5000 £ HISTORY OF THE INDIANA POCKET ATHIETIC CONFERENOE
A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the School of Education Indiana State Teachers College
In Partial FUlfillment of the ReqUirements for the Degree Master of Science in Education
by Robert Scheller AUgust 1954 The thesis ,of' _..:R;.::O:..;b:..;6:.,:I';..;t:.-:::S:.;:o:;.:;h::;;:6:;;:1:.,:l:.:6:,.=J:':...- , ContrlQ~tion of the Graduate Srrhool, Indiana State
Te achers College N~mber 752 9 under the title ....- ''>:':,-::.,' ..... , ; :,',- A.~S~ORY OF THE INDIANA POCKET ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
is her~!by, ElPproyed as counting toward the completion of th,eMas tel" t s de gre €I in the amount of ho~rst .~r< ,': '-" ";;:' ...,I; '...,. " t credit; e
Chairman
Date or TABrn OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PACE
Ie DEFINITION OF TEE PROBmM • f) • " " f) " " 0 " 1
Purpose of the study o. 0 • • " • " • " ., 1
A need for such a study • • • " • " 0 0 • 1
Sources of data eo. Oct • 0 0 0 " 0 0 " 0 2
A problem of research,. 0 •• 0 • 0 • 0 " 2
An assembling of this data ""... 0 0 2
Delimitation of the study • 0 " 0 0 •• 0 " :3
Scope of the study 0."" 0 0 • " 0 0 " :3
Significance for education 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 :3
A reason for this study 0 0 CO" 0 " " 0 :3
110 ORGANIZATION OF TEE: CONFERENCE 0.." 0 • 0 5
Preliminary groundwork for the Conference ., 5
A series of informal talks 0 0 " 0 0 " " 5
Start of the Conference ., e 0 0 " 0 0 0 0 " 6
The first meeting of the Conference 0 0 0 6
An election of officers " 0 • • " 0 0 0 0 7
Purpose of the Conferenc'e " 0 0 " • 0 " I) 7
An organization within the Conference " " 8
The position of Boonville " eo. " 0 ., 0 8
By-laws and financing the Conference • 0 " 8
Special rules for football "0 0 0 0 0 " 8
Finances of the Conference 0" 0 0 0 " 0 9 ]1IRSTYE~ROF III. TIm: THB CONFERENCE 0 0 " ., 0 " 10 111
CHAPTER PA~
The start of six-man football in Mte Vernon (I 10 ~ Eleven-man football Qnpopular (I & e & e I) 10
Lack of night games 0 0 e (I 0 Q I) (I • 0 (I 0 11
Problem of finances 0 (I 0 0 0 • • 0 0 0 • I) 11
The first game of the season 0 I) 0 til 0 e I) (!) 12
The inaugural in Mt. Vernon e 0 0 e e 0 0 e 12 }~ Beginning play in two other towns t) 0 fl 0 12 The Second meeting of the Pocket Athletic
~ Conference '" II ·0 It e • 0 0 I> I> .. I> 0 I> 13 13
A meeting of necessity 0 (I I) I) I) .. I) 0 • 0 13
The results of the first year in football (I I) 13
A Conference win for Owensville 00 0 (I 0 I) 13
The final standing of the first season 0 I) 14
The position of Oakland City 0 I) 0 (I e I) (I 14
Complete scores of all games in 1938 I) I) <) 15
The end of the first year of the Conference 0 17
A spring meeting of the Conference I) I) 0 (I 17
The first Oonference track meet (I .. I> 0 e 0 It
IV I> TEE SECOND YEAR OF TIm OONFERENCE .. ,. 0 I) 0 0 I) 19
(I The fall meeting of the Conference in 1939 19 I
The election of a new president • e 0 0 It I) 19
Problems of the first year I) e e 0 I) e (I I) 19
The second football season--1939 e 0 0 • 0 I) 20
A- newConferencecharnpion • 0 .. 0 0 0 (I (I (I 20 iv
CHAJPTER PAGE
The final s tanding of 1939 ,play " .. 0 0 • e 21
Complete scores of all games in 1939 .. I) " 21
The 1939 all-star football team ...... e 0 23 The second fall Conterence meeting in 1939 " 23 mee~ing ~ ~ A routine .. • 6 0 .. e ...... 0 23 The spring meeting of the Conference in 1940. 24
The second annual Conference track meet e • 0 25
An tlofficial'J Conference track meet 1'1 It 0 .. .25
An increased interest in track 0 0 ...... 25
V.. Tm THIRD YEAR OF Tm OONFERENCE • It () ., " .. 0 26
The fall meeting of the Conference in 1940 e 26
A meeting of little action 0 .. 0 0 ...... e 26
The third football season...... 1940 0 0 41 e 0 0 .. 27
A title to Mt. Vernon. 0 e e .. 0 0 0 27
The final standing of 1940 play 0 0 0 .. 28
Complete scores of all games in 1940 C 0 e 28 The spring meeting of the Oonference in 1941. 30
Activities of the meeting & ;) 0 00 .. 0 • e 30_
The third annual Conference track meet e" 0 30
A victory for Mt. Vernon ... () 0 0 0 <& 0 0 30 .
VI.. TIm. FOURTH YEAR OF Tm CONFERENCE .. .. 0 0 ., " 0 32
The fall meeting of the Conference in'1941 0 32
A review of the action 0 .. 0 e • 0 ...... CD 32
,The A new champion 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 • 0 .. .. 0 • 0 33 The final standing of 1941 play 0 0 .. 0 0 33 Complete scores of all games in 1941 0 0 0 33 A rumbling of discontent 0 • 0 .. • .. 0 0 • 35 theC~nference The spring meeting of in 1942 37 Inroads of the war •• '0 0 • 0 ••• 0 0 0 37 An election of officers 0.. 0 • 0 0 • 1& 37 The fourth annual Conference track meet III e 38 A domination by Petersburg .. 0 0 • • 0 c 0 38 VII. THE.: FIFTH YEAR OF THE CONFERENCE " 0 " 0 0 0 .. 39 A special fall meeting of the Conference in 1942 " " • 1'> o 0 o 0 0 39 An effect of war conditions • • • 0 0 • 0 39 A report by the point system committee • 0 40 The Se Ie A. C. point system 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 The fifth football aeason--1942 •••• 0 • 40 A title to Cannelton (} •• . ., 000 40 The final atanding of 1942 play ." e 0 0 41 Complete Bcores of all gameain 1942 •• «> 41 The 1942 All-Conference football team • 0 42 The second fall meeting of the Conference .. 42 Thefirat "round-r-ob:1.n" football schedule (& 42 Theaprihgmeetlng of the Cont erence in 1943 43 amB.l1~rnl.:l.fube;t. A Of sohools oe e \I • 0 • 43 vi CHAPTER PAGE The fifth annual Conference track meet .. 0 .. .. 43 An easy win for Petersburg 0 ...... e ...... 43 VIIIo THE SIXTH YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE ...... 0 ...... ;) 45 The fall meeting of the Conference in 1943 .... 45 A problem of transportation ...... • (I 45 The shoe situation again ...... 46 The sixth football season--1943 . 46 A second title to Mt .. Vernon 0'0 .. 46 The final standing of 1943 play .. 47 Complete scores of all games in 1943 ...... 47 The 1943 All-Conference football team ...... 47 The spring meeting of the Conference in 1944 .. 48 IX. Tm SEVENTH -mAR OF Tm CONFEImNCE .. 49 The seventh football season--1944 ,,4> 4> .. 49 A second successive title to Mt .. Vernon .. 49 The final standing of 1944 play .. 50 Complete scores of all games in 1944 " .. 50 ~ New scoring records tl.1) 0 ..... 4> .. 50_ The 1944 All-COnference football team' .. 50 An expansion of the All-Conference team .. 51 . The, f all meeting of the Conference in 1944 e .. 51 A mee.:tingto increase Conference membership.. 51 The spring meeting of the Conference in 1945 1& 52 X,. THf5EIGHTH YEAR \OF TBECONFERENCE 1&...... 0 53 The .eighthfootball season--1945 .... 0 " ...... 53 vii CHAPTER PAGE A title to Petersburg 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 o. 53 The final standing of 1945 play e 0 0 0 • 0 54 Compl ete s cores of all games in 1945 e 0 0 54 The 1945 All-Conference football team e o 0 54 The fall meeting of the Conference in 1945 55 A revival of interest in the Conference o 0 55 The proposal of two new amendments 0 0 • G 55 The spring meeting of the Conference in 1946. .56 ~ ~ ~ A new football schedule 0 0 0 0 o Eo e 56 The sixth annual Conference track meet III 0.... 56 XI.. TEE NINTH 'YEAR OF THE CONFERENCE 0 0 0 G .. 0"" 58 The ninth football season--1946 .. 58 A fourth title to Mt .. Vernon Eo • • 0 GOO 58 A new individual scoring record GO. G G 0 .58 The final standing of 1946 play G GOG G 0 59 Complete scores of all games in 1946 0 G e 59 The 1946 All-Conferenoe football team 0 60 60_ 'r Ii, 60 il 62 ",tIt I I 62 ! i 62 An official.sanctioning of the game .... e 63 The >severithannuai Conference track 'meet .. .. 64 viii CH.A.FTER FAG:!;!: XII", T1i.E TENTH Y:fEAR OF THE CONFERENCE • • • It 0 • " '" 65 The tenth footballseason--1947 '" It It • '" '" • 65 The first eight-man crown to Dale '" '" '" '" 0 65 The final standing of 1947 play '" '" • '" • 0 66 Complete scores of all games in 1947 e e " 0 66 The first eight-man Al,l-Conference team '" '" 68 A s'Qmmary of the first ye ar playing eight v I I: x Ii CH.AFTER PAGB I' I! if· The fall meeting of the Conference in 1950 .. (I 91 Ii II (J Constitution revised and rotating schedule 0 91 Ii, ! Ii The second basketball sea80n"'-1950-51 e 0 0 e 91 i I Ii II The final standing of 1950-51 basketball e 0 92 iI Complete scores of all 19~0-51 basketball • 92 :I AII-P. A. C. basketball team...... 1950...51 /) 0 e 93 :I The third annual freshman basketball tourney «I 93 I Second crown to Mt .. Vernon 0 0 0 0 93 The spring meeting of the Conference in 1951 (I 94 The eleventh annual Oonference track meet 94 XVI. TEE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE • 0 • (I 0 96 The fourteenth football season--1951 • (I 0 (I • 96 Mt. Vernon and Tell City co-champions 0 (I 0 96 The final standing of 1951 play • .. «I 0 (I • ·96 Complete scores of all game a in 1951 • (I ... 97 footb~ll The 1951 All-Conference teams o • (I 98 The f all meeting of the Oonference in 1951 e., 98 The third basketball 8eason--1951-52 0 .... o • 99 ~ The final standing of 1951-52 basketball (> .. 99 Complete scores of all 1951-52 basketball 100 AII-Col1ference basketball team for 1951-52 0 101 The fourth annual freshman baSketball tourney. 101 The s pring meeting of the Conferenc~r in ·1952 .102 The twelfth annual Conference track meet' 0 "" 103 xi .. :PAGE The, fi$'th,; annual freshmeq:lQe,~ketpall,to-qrp.ey & 110 The ,spr,ingmeet;tng o,f t11e> C,on,f(3,:ren,ce .in ,1,953 4) 110! The:\thirteenthtannual CJonf (ijr,ence :J:ra,P~L ,me e ~,.c :111, 112 The sixteenth football season...-1953 • 0 €I "0 112 Oakland City wins first title 0 $ €I " " e 0 112 The final standing of 1953 play G" €I " "0 ll~ Complete scores of all gB111es in 1953 El " <) I) 113 The1~53 AII-Conferencs football teams f) " 'I; 114 Two fall Insetingsof the Conference in 1953 e 114 The fifth basketball seas on--1953-p4: \) \ll 0 $" 115 jrhefihal standing of '1953-54, basketball 0 0) 116 pompletesCloresof all 3.953-54 basketball 0 116 xii CHAPTER PAGE All-Conference basketball teams-1953-54 ~ e 117 The siith annu~i f:r~Shn1adi~ba:~li:~tbal1 to-urney. 117 , ,'rlle~.:p~ingi~e:e.tJng Pi+' th~,. CI?n~er{;3nCie+n 1~549' 117 "'B~te,~nth ~ra,ck ~set (I ,T,he 1" .EWnBal Oo.!1f'(3rs!?:.<::s 118·,.,'-:.i 120 ;Football. ,It .61 of winners and rt:lnners --up..., 0 ~l) . 120 .', "::0. .. ":',' ....,.".', , Baake.t,ball Tra.ckoL" .)' .•. ,.' ,', w;tnn(3r~ rupp~:ra I) 'It I) II> SBrnmary..;.,,"'," , 91", i3D.9 ';''L1;t) ? 122 Comp~Elt(3, list: 91" Con.t:'er,.(3nc(3.,. re.q ord-:-holq(3!'s $1,22 ;,~", .. ,,',. -;'-. .."', '.~. ',' ':<'.. } -'; ',..';'"":. ..' '-,"".. ," .. -',"": t::' ' .. ' --,... .. ,' .. ' ' .. """.. I:' , .. -:., " ., .. "" , i,i' ~f3nefits ~lJ~ yatMEl~ p;t't~~/ ?rl5.a.n;tz~~i9:P Of.; ,tllEjPo A ¥,e to, s~h98~s and connnunitie.s i~ ,~~3; .. .. It . " 124 CHAPTER I DEFINITION OF TEE PROBlEM More than sixteen years ago a small group of far sighted educators and administrators in Southwestern Indiana saw the need and advisability of an athletic conference that would provide balanced schedules, uniform competition, and a closely ]mit organization for the general advanoement of athletics in the high sohools. !tealiz1ng that athletics and athletic oompetition are important extra-ourricular activi ties in the well-rounded high school program, these sohool men organized the Pocket Athletio Conference. Started pri marily as a six-man football organization", the Pocket Ath letic Conferenoe added varsity traok soon after its inception and more recently, varsity basketball. Also, the Conference has moved from the six-man game of football to eight-man football, t~us becoming What is believed to be the first and only group in the world playing eight-man football. I. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY p!:. needfo: suCh.! stUdy. Although the Pocket Athlet ic Conferenoe has enjoyed a prosperous life in its sixteen year history, the Conference has lacked a complete history ., II. SOURCES OF DATA AEroble~ ~ research. Prl~r to this study little cresearchinto the reasons for th~ organization of the Pocket Athletio Oonference had been done. There was no record whatsoever of the yearly sports summaries, schools 1n the Oonference, and annual results. Muoh of the present mate rial was taken from the sports pages of daily and weekly newspapers in cities in the Conference as well as from the two daily newspapers in Evansville. the largest city in the Southwestern part of Indiana. Interviews were necessary with those men who were influential in getting the Confer... ence ~tarted and questionnaires to others who also helped +n the. organization of the Conference It Football rule books were_ used in comparing the six-man game with the new eight.. man game when the latter type of sport was started. The mintltas of ·thei,' .•.. < ..... ",.. Conf··0··..... er.ence.,', me) etings. were' ·u tillzed. Int.er... views and letter.s with present high school principals in the Oonference'were important in fi.lling·in the links that were ·l11iss.iI.lglnnewspaper.accounts of.gamesand meet results. ~assemblin80f'~~.All of this collected 'material, was;[compiled andwelghedA)aJ:>,efullyfor 1ts,ve,lue to -fi:stu.dy of thlstype. Some Gf the material was decidedly biased;' however t it has been entered as a matter of record. Discrepancies in scores occurred from time to time, but at... tempt is made to present the material as accurately as pos~ sible. III. DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY Scope ~ !E! study. This paper presents a complete and as acourate an aocount as possible of the reasons for the Pocket Athletic Conference and the men responsible f~r s,uch an organi zationo It is a report, year by year and sport by sport, of every final standing in the respective sports plus the complete scores of every game and meet Within the Conference. It is a complete history of the $tart of the Conference; what has ocourred since its incep. tion, and recommendations which are intended to ease cer~ tain difficulties and overcome other deficiencies and flaws a.t present evldentto the wrIter. IV. SIGNIFICANCE FOR EDUCATION .''/:." reason for !!!!.! study. Prior to this report no cOnfplete acco'UI'ltlng of the history, ,results, and tabulao tions iin the conf~renQe had be<;ln done. Bece:use of the \In ... •"usually high t~rnover ,of,pl:'inciI>e.ls Slild coaches, present members and member schools of the ConferenCe know not whence .. they have come or where they are headed. Much confusion exists in an attempt to build a better Conferenoe, and there is no reoord of what has been aooomplished or what has gone on in the past yeers. For member sohools in the Conferenoe and for other schools possibly interested in organizing a similar CGnferenoe, a history of the Pocket Athletic Con ... ferenoe, its reasons for being and ~ts struggles~ should prove valuable. One of the highest points in this stUdy is a summary of the Conferencets venture into eight-man foot ... ball, a game which has done muoh to dest~oy the prej'udice. against six-man football and whioh, more nearly, answers the football problem of the member schools. other schools 1n the state, surrounding states, and even the entire United States could profit by playing eight-man fGotball, if they ~e interested in the gridiron game but are dissatisfied with the six-man variety or have an insufficient enrollment to play the regulation eleven-man game. Our elght=man vel''''' sion oftha game is not intended to supplant the regtllar eleven-man game; however, it is believed that the eight... man game, because of the extra two linemen" more near-ly ap'" _ eleven"'m~n tootball~ proxlmates ,,",the' game than does six-man Fina.1ll', the °onferenoe does have defects and could profit by a. stUdy of its. problems and by r.eallz1ng what could bEl s..'Coomplished wi thmoreplsnning and nrutual understanding. OHAPTER II ORGANIZATION OF THE CONFERENCE With the country j~st emerging from the depression of the late thirties, only Boonville High School» among the high sohools in Soutpwestern Indiana with school ene rollments under five hundred stUdents, was playing eleven... man football. Rookport.ll Mt. Vernon, Owensville.ll and Oakland City preViously had played football. All these schools had dropped the sport, however, finding that it !. l' : was not financially possible to continueD and further that they were being forced in. order to obtain a schedttle to pl~ sohools of a muoh higher calibre, of, considerably" gI'Elater enrollment, and at a tremendous dis tance geograph ioally. j) ~i' ii I. PRELIMIN.AEi¥ GROUNDWORK FOR TEE CONFERENCE, i r II IIf'T , , ••j;, '~'~",i II'I !' I: Ii of 1937-38, informal talks were held between administrators 11 and coaches of highi"schoo~s with school 'enrollment~ ranging from lees te:an,onehttndred.,. uptbr0lilSh:high schools' with more' f:han,f,our· hundred:,\st1.:ldent~L•. ' ~~; G'eorgeAshworth.ll a graduate c:>~:rn<:1~J:\J:la,s,~a~e Teachers' Oollege, Terre Hau.te, Indiana" had ''be'en 'appointed .. t.o,th.e' factlltY.P\at. Mt,.V:$rnon~/'$lld,·Mr4! ',", :, .~, '"_':."~:- "i,c":.. :: ',' ~:-;",",': - ,,1 , .'>' ," , ,_ ,'" ".: ... ';, IH}I'~\~': ,',;' •"" '. '" ,'- " ,',,_.> :>" "'!.,::"'i' StbyHe II • START OF THE OONFERENCE The .firstmeeting.E!., the Conference. Because of' the t'8.ctthatBoonvll1e;was,oentrally locatedllMre Bennett lI;.Eitter to the writer from Alfred Bennett, super 1ntendent .. 'ofBocmvilleOltySch901s..lIBoonville,Indiana, datedSe/ptemberlO, .• 19p;5•. ,I i I ,! ;i • I ;! 7 called the initial meeting of the Conference at his school, for March 14, 1938. On that date the Pocket Athletic Oon .... ferenc$ was organized. The nama for the Conference was ohosen beca"Use the schools W$re located in that part of Indiana which is commonly referred to as the UPocket" area of the state. '1'h1sdesigne:t1cm is so applied, since the contour of the So'Uthwes tern corner of the state resembles a pocket. 'The first Oonference secretary reported: The following schools beoame charter members of the oOnferenoe: Oannelton, Dale, Boonville, Mt. Vernon, Rock~ port, Owensville, Winslow, and Tell City. Poseyville was elected to membership at this meeting. 2 An election of offioers. Mr. Paul Garrison prin.- - - g o.ipal at Oannelton" was elected president of the new organ ization. Mr. Stoy Hedges, Mt. Vernon principal, was named vice-president" and Mr. N. Dixon, principal at Tell Oity, was elected secretary-treasurer by the member schools. I. :Purpose !! !!!!. Conference It Although the Conference I was organized for the primary purpose of playing six-man ~'~ifin;tes of the Pocket Athletic Conferenoe Sacre tarles,Canheltbn,Indiane.,;~eptember14"1953," p. 7. 3n¢onstit'Utlon and By-Laws of the Pocket Athletio Conference, Cann~lton~IndianaiJ September 14, 1953," po 2. -8 !!! organization within 2 Oonterenoe. A Board or I 'Direotors» whioh oonsisted of the principals of all the mem'" bersehools j was named as the governing body of the newly organized Conferenoe. In addition to the maj or s ports of football~ basketball, traok, and baseball, it was further provided that additional sports such astennis g wrestling, swimming, and the like could. be 'added tQ the Oonterence list of sports at the discretion of the Board of Direotors. 4 !!l!. .position .!! Boonville. Boonville was 'in the pe QUlia.r position of playing eleven-men fG>otball on one hand and instr~mental in organizing and belonging to a six-man Conference .on the other. 'Fhe e.nswerto this apparent in... congru,ity lies in Mr. Bennett's own statement" "X felt that if other nearby schQola cou.ld gat a tarted the larger ones could oome into eleven-man eventually, and in the meantime we would all have a good .fall aport that had a lot of value.nO III. BY-LAWS. AND FINANCING ,TEE CONFERENCE Speoial rUles for.football. In order to be eligible ,for the GOn1'erenee'ohampionship" the Board. of Dll:"eotors ru.led that a sohool must partioipate in at least five .4'"Co,ns1iitutton, and, By-La"s~fthe Pooket Athletic COnference.. ,.(}annelton".:rnd.iQ11Ii;~e,ptell1ber ". ,." . tI . ,.. : ' '.,.. , ", ', ' .. ;,: ' :'" ..•.. "'., . ''':-. ' .. 14), 1-953" p.2• 5' .• '..•.• '.• '.' ..•. ..,' •...... , , ." AlfredBennett"op. ill.!. ., ·1 i I ! i I I 9 contests with member schools. The Oonferenoe championship I would be awarded on a percentage basis g including all Con i 1 ferenoe games played, and tie games would oount as one-half I I i game won and one-half game lost. A mutual distrust 'by mem ber schools is apparent in one of the By ....Laws which says, "No games scheduled after September .1 will count in the a ~ardingof the ohampionship tor the folloWing season." 6 This, of course, was to preclude the possibility of one or more schools waiting until the season was underway and then arranging games with weakerConterence teams It The Board of Direotors ,voted to use the six-man ru.les of Stephen Eplerts Handbook~7 with the exoeption that regulation leather foot- ball shoes could be worn at the disoretion of eaoh sohool. Finances !!.!B! Conferenoe. Annu.al dues of $2.50 per member sohool were set, thas~ payable on or before October \ :- I 1. Special assessments could be levied by the Board of Di ... i I 11 II r,eotors 'Upon t1la,member schools. Also,the By-Laws provided: i. "~ if Any school not having dues paid on or before October I· 1, shall automatically become a delinquent member and be eon'" sideredonprobation until the Deoember 1, following. If the delinqueney1s notremo:ved .oy the payment of dues on 01" before Deoember 1, theachool automatically beoomes a sus psndedmember school, and is denied any-further rights and pr1\11leges of til member 80hool. 8 6 "Constitution and By-LaWs," op. ill.!... p. 3. c 7SteP DEPler..Editor. .Offi01.81 Six-Man Poetiball ... Rti.le:Book:>andHow.to:P.lalHandbook,,1941..ne New 'YorkrCity: cC National Six-Man Football Rules Gomrnitt.ee .. 1941. Pp. 101. c'·Oonstlt~tl,on and B:r-Laws.~{~ .op_ .cit." p. 3. O~R III 'rEB: FIRST YEAR OFTBE CONFERENCE Althottgh the school :vear 1938....39 marked the inau.... guration of Pooket Athletio Conferenoe competitiol1~ the organization was more or less a group of individual sohools who wented to play football end have a fall sport and be lieved that six""man football was the answer to the prob lem.lt is evident that 1ittle ,planning or seleotion en"; tered in in the choice of schools whiehfirst made ttp the Conferenoe. Furtherg schedUling difficulties; lighted fields, whioh were deemed almost neoessary; competent of fioia1s for the new six-man game; and ttsellingff the game to the pu.blic in towns where football had never been .it.... nessed were some of the problems besetting the Conferenoe in ita first year of operation. I. THE START. OF SIX-MAN FOOTB.ALIt IN l\l.P III VERNON Eleven-man f oothall unpopular. Eleven"'man l'ootball ~ J had beenplayedinMt. Vernon through the twenties and in to the .early thirties" However,the game hadre ached a ~ point where ltlaoked almost,oompl-ete spectator-appealo Mr •.Stoj'liedges, a teacher in the Mt. Vernon sohool system dUl'ing.,the.thirties, s8.id.i~Ican rememberoneeleven-man. game where I sold tioketfhThe complete sale of tickets -'I 1·1 for thi\s game amounted to $1.40 and this included both Btu~ dents and adu.lts.tf~ ~ 2!night games. One deterring factor to the eleven-man game was the lack of lighted fields in order to play the contests at night. By the late thirties Friday and Satu.rday afternoon high school games were becoming generally a thing of the past.. ~his problem was late%' over come in six-man f oothall, although two schools, Owens ville and Dale, were extremely slow in providing facilities for night play. Problem 2! finances. While Mr. Hedges was "sold,f on I six-man football as a fall s,port, and while the superin , , tendent and school board were not opposed to the sport, the ,. i i administ%'ation took the attitude that if the principal :, ,r I( wanted football, i~ was his job to get it started, keep it :'1 !i ii going, and take eat'e of all expenses e The s cheol Board ! i li did erect a fenee areund MtG Vernon's AthletiePark; how (I t' 1! !'f I', ever j .Iall other monies came 1'1"0111 the principalfa off,ice II II I as well as funds for lighting the rield, putting the field f I L I ir r.i itsE'!lfitf playing condition» playing equipment, etc.tfl0 Thepoll:)sfo~thelightscost $140, and Mro Ralph Gronemeier" i Mt. Vernon hardwwe dealer, unde:rwro.te the wiring and the i I i I 9Interviewbet~eenthewrite:randMr,. Stoy Hedges $/ superintendent ot Mt~ Vernon. High School.. Mt. Vernon" Indiana, "at Mt.,'1erriOD,3 March\ 3" 1953. :ta. Ib1d • i ;;". .' ' , 12; lights. ,At the beginning of the football season the EJohoo:J. Evansville, $75, the exact amount in the athletic treasury. :Mr. Hedges paid the electricians himself, hoping that the I I reoeipts at football games later in the season would reim= bursa b.1moMa.ny times the fttraas\u"y" was olose to insol... I vancy. !I I II,. THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON I I The inaugural.!!! Mt ... Vernon. On September 9, 193B, the first, game in the history of the Pocket Athletic Con.... ference was held under the lights in Mt. Vernone Before what was then considered a tremendous cl"owd ot three l::ll~n"" drad skeptioal witnesses. Mt e Vernon defeated Poseyville, 3:3...18. Many of the sp€:lotators at this inaugural game had never seen any formot football, and they were well pleased o .Others who knew the eleven-man game thought that the. six man,var1a.tywas too "wild", and in. spite of the oval'" shaped ball thought that,the game 'was ' an entirely different sport from theeleven-ms.n game e Beglnnins plal !!! two other towns. On September 24$1 1938, two other'Oonf'erence schools played theirf'irst six if i .. '\ ~. i' .. , mangamesbeforahomeorowds It ~ At Cannelton" Gannelt-on de ~etatt)9-Iio0:ltport, 31-21, before five htmdred spectators in ,the f1rst football game of my.type .ever played in·,the Perry Oouritytown. And at Oakland City, where aleven-man tQotbal,l had been played formerly, theholIle school entertained two h'undredand fiftY' eager speotators with a 44...12 victory over neighboring Mt.Olympus. III. TEE SECOND MEETING OF TEE: POCKET ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Ameeting .2! necessity. Because .Mr. Paul Garrison, reoently-elected president of the Conferenoe, had ohanged sohools during the summer, one of the most important iteIW:! of business was the election of a new Conferenoe president. Mr. Hedges, formervioe-president, was elevated to the presidenoy.During the s'l.Ul1mer the Indiana High School Ath1etio Association had met and had adopted the National IntercollegiateF,ootball Rules and Eplerts rules asman datoryfortheseboola in the Association. Hence the Con"" fer.enoe voted adherence. to these two rule books. ttMt. Olympus and Oakland,Oity-were e,lected to membership to thef•.1.0It, making a tot8.1 of 11 members ,,1.11 read the seoretarjTts minutes of this meeting. rl• THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST YEAR IN FOOTBALL 1£. Oonferenoe m .~OWensville. The first Pocket AthletioConf,erenoe dhampionshipwen,t. '.to Owensville .. who 1] "Minutes of the Pocket Athletic Conferenoe Seo~ retaries" Oannelton" Indiana" September 14, 1953," po 6. 14 finished the Ins.ugural season with flve winsano. one loss fot' a percentage of' .833. Owensville defeated Mt. Varnon twice, 25-13e.nd 21-13; 1.>ale, 13-0; Cannelton, 49...14; and Poseyville JI 19...12. Their only loss came at the hands of Mt. Olymp~sJl 16-6. ~ final standing ~ ~ first season. WON LOST. PEROEITAOO Owensville 5;· 1 .833 Cannelton 5 ~ .714 Petersburg 2~ 1 .667 Mt. O~ympus 2 1 .667 Poseyville 5 3 .625 Dale 3 2 .600 Boonville 1 1 .500 Mt. Vernon 3 4: .428 Rockport 2 4 .333 1,I'inslow 1 4: .200 Tell City 1 6 .143 ~ Rosition ~ Oakland City. Although the S$cre retary's minutes of September 20, 1938, say that Oakland City was "elected" to membership,12 Mr. Hedges reveals that the secretary's minutes of that date were in error JI and that they should have read, "Oakland City was proposed to membership in the Conference.n13 This apparent error in the secretary's minutes was confirmed by Mr. Marlin E. ]12 "Minutes of the Conference,"ioP• .!!h... p. 6. 13 Interview between the write; and Mr. Stoy Hedges, superintendent of Mt. Vernon High School, Mt 0 Ver~onJlII1dlanaJl at Mt. Varnon, March 3" 1952. 15 Kell, present principal of Oakla:nd 01ty.14 In 1938, 08.kland .t Oity pIeyed five games, winning f o'Ur and losing onEh They defeated Nt. Olympus, 44-12; Petersburg, 39-29; and Winslow twice, .61-14 and 52 ...24; and lost to Owensville, 18-6. How.... ever, since they were not officially a member of the Confer ence, their record and games played were not included in the Conference sta:ndings. Complete scores ~f .ill games in ~. Champion O1llJENSVI LIE ... ( ~ ...1 ) Z5 Mt. Vernon 13 6 Mt. Olympus 16 21 Mt. Vernon 13 13 Dale 0 49 Oannelton 14 19 Poseyville 12 < Second Place CANNELTON ... (5-2) 31 Rockport 21 Third Place Tie 32 Mt. Vernon 18 *PETERSBURG•• ( 2 ...1) 30 Tell Cit~ 25 39 Tell City 24 26 Dale 38 77 W[nslow 13 14 .Owens vi.l1e 49 37 Winslow 48 18 Tell Oi ty 21 55 Winslow 20 Fifth Place POSEYVILt8 •• (5-3) Third Place Tie 18 Mt. Vernon 33 *Me .. OLYMPUS •• (2-1) 37 Rockport 19 6PoseyvilIe 18 26 Mt" Vernon 18 39 Poseyville 38 24W'1nslow 0 16.Owensville 6 18 Mt • Olympus 6 38 Mt. Olympus 39 35 Rockport 14 12 Owensville 21 14 Interview between the writer and Mr. MarlinE., 'Kell, principal of Oakland Ci.ty High School, at Posey .ville, Indiana, March 6, 1952. S:txthPlaoe DArE ••(3.... 2) Seventh Place 47 Tell Gity 25 *BOONVILLE ... (I-I) o Owens ville 13 3a: WinslQw 7 42 Rockport 14 o Tell City 28 38 Cannelton 26 9 Rockport 51 Eighth Place Ninth Place MT .. VERNON .... (3-4) ROCKPORT ... ( 2-4 ) 33 Poseyville 18 19 Poseyville 37 13 Owensville 25 21 Cannelton 31 18 Poseyville 26 14 Bale 42 34 Tell City 22 14 Poseyville 35 18 oanne Iton 32 28 Tell Cit7 23 13 Owensville 21,. 51 Dale 9 50 Winslow 32 Eleventh Place Tenth Place TELL CITY. It (1""0) WINSLOW... (1-4) 22; Mt" Vernon 34 '7 Boonville 32 23 Dale 47 Q Poseyville 24 24 Petersburg 39 48 Petersburg 37 25 Cannelton 30 32 Mt. Vernon 50 23 Rockport 28 20 Cannelton 53 28 Boonville 0 16 Cannelton 18 *Not eligible for the Conferenoe championship be oause of not playing the required number of games ~ ftva" - . !;;summarl .2! ~ .~ football season. In announc ingthe Oonference che.mplong Owensville~. and the season's i I summary"N. Bixon,secretary, said~ttSince five intra-con I ference games were neoessary for the ohamplonsbipg Boon ! i ville" NIt. Olympus" and Petersburg were not regarded as I, ), i contestants for the ohampionship" ulS However, by oral I I i 15no:r.tSefsm" EcU.tor • The ,Evansville COurier .. Fl1esatiW1:l.IflI'gLibI'arY~.EvanSvlrle; Ie Indiana. Issue of (. ,,:; Ngv~mber,l(hl-~~" p •. ~4. agreement games played by other schools with these three tesms were cot:tnted in the final standings of all teams • V. TEE END OF TIm FIRST YEAR OF THE CONFERENCE ! spring meetings 2! ~Conference. Still in its formative stages, the Oonferencevoted Francisco High School into the organization at the spring meeting held in Boonville on March 16.11 1939. At the same time Winslow ". wi thdre,w from the Conference I) Further.ll .. Oakland Oity 'be ... oame a member immediately upon the invitation of Owens ville.ulS Slight changes in basketball and football schedUles were made by a few member schools, but the sug gestion of N.Dixon$ Tell City principal, for a Pocket Athletic Oonference basketball tournament did not create sufficient interest. Hence such a proposal was deferred to a later meeting. ~The firs t Conferenoe ,traok ___mee t $ The initial Con- ference track and field meet was a rather informal affair. Desiring a traok meet, four of the 'Conferenoe schools mat at Boonville on May 4, 1939, and unofficially called it a Pocket Athletic Conferenoe track meet.17 Boonville was the 16 nMinutes of the Pocket AthletlcConferenca Sec retaries, Gannelton, Indiana" September 14.ll 1953.ll" po 8. 17 Letter to the writer from Mr. Lore1 Coleman" principal of Petersburg High School~ Petersburg, Indiana, dated Ootober 2$ 1953. I 18 'f I winner"sooring flfty...nine'pointso Petersburg was seoond . wi th fifty...five and two-thirds points l> The other two en trants" Mt. Vernon and Rookport, scored twelve and one~ third and eight points, respectively. I I: t CHAPTER IV THE SECOND YEAR OF THE CONFERENCE In the second year of the Conference the member schools arranged a more uniform football schedule. Fewer schools had to play other schools twice to obtain a sched ule and more sohools played relatively the same number of games. , The 1939-40 season produced the first tie games in the Conference, a condition whic};l was thought to be highly improbable, because of the scoring system used in the six man game. Finally, a Pocket Athletic Conferenoe track and field meet was officially recognized as a Conference ac tivity. I. THE FALL MBETING OF TIm: CONFERENCE IN 1939 , The election!! .! new Eresident. Meeting at Boon ... ville High School on September 19, 1939, the Oonference was forced to name a new president to replaoe Stoy Hedges g who had been elevated to the Mt. Vernon superintendency during the s 'WJ1mer • Mr. E.. L.Smith, Oakland 01 ty prin cipal and recently-elected Conference Vice-president, was automatically voted to the presidency. Problems.!! ~ first zeal'.. !>uring the initial football season several coa.ches apparently were exceeding 'the Iegaltll1181im1t on substitutions. Hence Mr. Hurst 20 Livengood, coach at Dale, moved that playing ru.les be ad ... .. nered to strictly, especially the one concerning time-out on su.bstitutions .18 The motion was passed after consider.... able discussion.. Two schools of thought on the shoe prob lem were revealed in this fall meeting. Mr. C. D. Manhart. Petersbu.rg principal, was the leader of a faotion which was in favor of following the six-man rule book to use rubber... soled shoes. Mr. George Ashworth, Mt. Vernon coaoh, fa- vored the regulation cleated football shoes co Mr.- Manhart stressed the importance of safety and the safety factor attached to the rubber-soled shoes 9 while Mr" Ashworth re vealed that he was having difficulty keeping the spikes on his shoes in wearable oondition. Nonetheless, the shoe problem was tabled until tbespringmeeting.19 II. THE SECOND. FOOTBALL SEASON--1939 ! !!! Oonference champion. In a season which found five rather strong teams, two ofmedioority, and four weak, Poseyville ~gh School dethroned oWensville as the Confer enoe ohampion. Poseyville went through a seven-game sohedule undefeated with only a tie to mar its perfect record. The champion Posies defeated Nit. Vernon twice, 24-12 and 32-31; 1~>ftYI1:ril:lt~B of the Oonference," op. 2..!h, p. 90 19 Ib1d., p. 9. 21 Francisco, 50...13; Rockport, 58-20; Mt .. Olympus, 51-7; and Oakland City, 31-30. Owensville farced them to a 32....32 tie.. Mr. Verlin Spradlin was the Poseyville coach, and the team was led by Mr. Gene Nix, a husky five-foot, ten inch, one hundred and eighty pound fUllback, who set a new Pocket Athletic Conference individual scoring record of ninety.... four pointa.• 20 ~ final standing of 1939 .:e!.!.l. WON LOST TIED PERCENTAGE Poseyville 6 0) 1 1.000 Tell Oity 5 1 0 .833 Oakland Oity 5 1 0 .833 Dale 4 1 0 .800 Owensville 4 2 2 .667 Nt. Vernon 4 4 0 .5(0) Petersburg 2 3 0 .400 Cannelton 1 4 1 .200 Mt. Olympus 1 5 0 .167 Francisco 0 5 0 .000 Rockport 0 (3 0 .000 Oomplete scores ~ all games .!E ~. Champion POSEYVILLE •• (S-O-l) 24 Mt. Vernon 12 50 Francisco 13 32 Owensville 32 (tie) 32 Mt. Vernon 31 58 Rockport 20 51 Mt. Olympus 7 31 Oakland City 30 .2(»The! Vie at'ern Star. :Mt. Vernon, Indiana, Novem ber ,7, '1939, p. 4. . ',. Second Place Tie Seoond Plaoe Tie ~LL CITY•• (5-1-0) OAKLAND CITY•• (5...1 ...0) 6 Mt(ll Vernon 18 30 Poseyville 31 32 Cannelton 7 44 Franoisoo 24 60Mt. Plympus 6 30 Petersburg 8 28 .Petersburg 0 33 Owensville 20 30 Owensville 13 20 Dale 13 26 Cannelton 13 38 Cannelton 12 Fifth Place Fourth Place OIENSVILLE ••(4-2-2) DAm... (4-1...0) 14 Mt. Vernon 0 60 Rookport 26 32 Foseyville 32 (tie) 46 Franoisoo 0 26 Mt. Vernon 20 25 Mt (9 Olympus 6 20 Petersburg 0 13 Oakland Oity 20 14 Francisoo 12 44 Rockport 26 18 Cannelton 18 (tie) 13 Tell Oity· 30 20 Oakland City 33 Sixth Place MT. VERNON ..(4-4-0) 12 Poseyville 24 Seventh Place o Owensville 14 PEmRSBUR G•• (2-3...0) 31 Poseyville 32 22 Mt. Olympus 15 21 Rookport 7 o Owensville 20 47 Mt. Olympus 20 8 Oakland Oity 30 28 Cannelton 12 20 Rockport 6 20 Owensville 26 o Tell City 28 18 T.ell Oity 6 .. Eighth Place Ninth Place CANNELTON •• (1...4...1) M.T. OLYMPUS •• ( 1 ...5...0 ) 12 Mt.. Vernon 28 20 Mt. Vernon 47 7 Tell City 32 15 Petersburg 22 18 Owensville 18 (tie) .., Poseyville 51 27 Rockport 6 , 6 Tell City 60 13 Tell City 26 21 Francisco 0 12 Oakland City 38 '6 Dale 25 Eleventh Place Ten:th Place ROCKPORT •• (O...6-0) FRANCISCO •• «(;)-5-0) 7 Mt. Vernon 21 13 PO$~yville,. 50 .20 Poseyville 58 24 Oe.klandCit;y 44 26 Dale 60 12 Owensville 14 5 Petersburg 20 O'Dale. 46., ·26 Dale. ..44 o ,Mt.· Olymp~s 21 6 Cannelton 27 /' 23· The 1939 All-Star football team. At the conclusion - ...-...... ------,of the 1939 season~ the following All-Conference team was named by Mr. Bill Causey, sports editor of The Western Star:21 ~ Billy Grigsby, Owensville C Tom Kress g Tell Oity BE Ed Sumners, Oakland City QB Allan Brooner, Dale' BE Gene Nix, Poseyville FB Warren Rueger, Mt. Vernon IIIo TEE SECOND FALL CONFERENCE MEETING IN 1939 ! routine meeting. Other than routine Oonferenoe business, two items of importance were disoussed at the seoond fall meeting held in Boonville on November 7, 1939. First, Chrisney High Sohool requested information on the Conference and a oopy of the Constitution relative to Con- fer.enee membership. Seoond, muoh disoussion oentered on a , , i plan more suitable for determining theConferenoe football champion than the peroentage"basis plan now in opera.tioD. f I A, c.ol1nn1ttee was appointed to study this problem and report I at. the spring mee.ting with a new plan f.or determining the Conference champion, if this committee deemed such advisable.22 1 I'F; p 21 The Western Star, Ope cit$~ November 12" 1939, ,j 22uMinutes of the Pooket Athletic Conferenoe See.... 1 retaries,t~ Catnl~~~()n, Indiana,,8~~.:t~m'berl~h1953~p. 10. I ;I : ! :. It J 24· IV (I TEE SPRINGMBETING OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1940 A meeting.2f little action. Chrisney High School was voted a member of the Conference at the spring meeting held in Boonville on April 17,1940. Mr. Dale Braun, Cannelton principal, reporting for the committee on a pos sible different method of ¢hoosing the Conference champion in football, gave a summary of the point sys tern used in the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference, which embraces the 1 arges t high schools in Southwes tern Indianao This point sys tem is quite a complicated arrangement. Inef... feet, a team gets more points for defeating the league'" leader, for example, than a team down farther in the stand I ,I ings. This point system continues on down through all the • i antS r te in the Oonference and is based on the s tanding of i their opponents at the conclusion of the seasono "Upon a vote.'itwasf.oundthat out of all principals and coaches present one was dissatisfied with the percentage sys tem now in use, and seven were satisfie,de However .. a large number present did not vote.23 The result of the entire discussion was that the committee was instruoted to oon- , ?i i tinue its stUdy and again report its findings at the fall i meeting in 1940. 23 uMinutes of the Conference," .2.E.!. cit., p. 10. 25· V. THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MEET -An "offioial" Conferenoe traok -meet. At the spring meeting in 1940" traok beeame an "offioial" Conferenoe sport, although a Conferenoe traok and field meet had been held· the previous year on an unoffioial basis.. Boonville played host for this seoond Oonference track meet on April 26, 1940, and the meet was the firs t ever held under the lights on the Pioneer track• .&! increased interest in traok. The seoond annu.al Oonferenoetraok and field meet produ.ced greaterintereat than the unofficial ina.ugural. For the second year In Suooes slon, however, Boonville took the titIe with fifty eight and one-half points. Petersburg, again, was the runner-up sooring forty-seven and one-balf pointso Fol lowing in order were Mt.Vernon, twenty-nine; Chrisney, six; and Rookport and Dale, none. CHAPTER V THE THIRD YEAR OF TIm: CONFERENCE The third year of the Pocket Athletio Conference was marked by the dominance of Mt. Vernon as the Confer ence powerhouse in both football and· track. With the ex~ caption of Francisoo, all the other schools played a fairly uniform football sohedule. Track continued, but it re- mained a sport struggling to surv~ve. Finally, Boonville withdrew from the Conference to enter the larger Southern Indiana Athletio Conference, which played eleven-man foot ball exclusively. I. THE FALL MEETING OF TIm: CONFERENCE IN 1940 ! Meeting .2! little aotiono Mr. Dale Braun, Can nelton·principal, was elected to the presidency of the Conference, and a clinic on the new basketball rules was led by Mr. Bud Pointer, veteran Evansville official, and Mr. Mark Wakefield, ooach of Central High School, Evansvi11e9 The committee named the previous fall to study methods of declaring a Conferenoe champion infoothe.ll had no addition'" I a1 report to supplement that made in April. Mr. C. D. Man .... ha.rt; Petersburg principal andnewly...elected member of the Indiana.:H1ghSCh091AthltSt:tC Assoclat:ton, Board of Control, announced a proposal before the Council to establish the· . ! j ! " I i \' I> .1 first of No'Vember as the date for starting basketball prac....t i }f··tice and November 15 as the date of the firstintersonoel geme. Several principals and coaches expressed themselves as favorable to the proposal1l24 since they were finding that they were being forced to play basketball games with teams not fielding football squads wJ:l0had been practicing basketball since school opened in-September. Fina11y~ Boon ville High School. having aocepted a bid to join the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference, announced their withdrawal from the.Pocket Athletic Conference. The Southern Indiana Ath letio Conference was composed of the largest high schools in the Southern and Southwestern part of Indiana. II. THE!: THIRD FOOT BALL SEASON--l940 i ! title to Mt. Vernon. Led by Warren Rueger, who i i set a ~ew Conferenoe individual sooring reoord of 109 . I i i points, Mt.Vernon beoeme the first Conference champion to r't j I i. :',j complete its schedule wi thotlt a loss or a tie to mar the q tl record. The Wildcats defeated their eight opponents with only one close game, that a 20-18 viotory over Petersburg. II . \"; OtberWins were scored over Mt. Olympus~ 48-20; Poseyville, i ,~ ~ , 'I f e'fO~landCity, Cannelto~, i 4e ... 26 ....0; 49-0; Franoisoo, 40-19; i : f :1 24. "Minutes of the PooketAth.latlo OonferenoeSec ~etaries, 13-~ Cannelton, Indiana, Marob 14, 1950Lt " , p. \1r 28· Tell City, 32-18; and Owensville, 25...6. So strong was Mt... , Vernon that the following item appeared in Mr. Bill Cauaeyts colu.mn in The Western Star, "Principal Charles Hames has issu.ed a challenge in the Indianapolis and Terre Hau.te papers and has written Rockville, Indiana, direot."25 Rockville was, at the time" playing a six-man sohedule, and there were two other six-man oonferences in operation in Indiana during this period, one north of Terre Haute and the other northeast of Indianapolis; hence, the "chal lenge" :tn the upstate newspapers. ~ final standing .2!. 1940 ~o WON LOOT TIED PERCENTACE Mt. Vernon 8 o o 1.000 Petersbu.rg 5 1 o .833 Foseyyille 5 2 o .714 Tell C:tty 5 2 o .714 Owensville 3 3 1 .500 Chrisney 2 3 o .400 ])~e 2 3 o .400 Cannelton 2 4: o .333 Oakland City 2 4 1 .333 Rockport 1 5 o .167 FranoisoQ () 2 o .000 Mt. Olympu.s () 6 o .000 Complete scores .2! ill games ~ 1940. Champion M.r. VERNON ••(8-0....0) SeoondPlace 48Mt. Olympu.s 20 PETERSEURG•• (5-1-0) 4S,Poseyville 0 18 Mt. Vernon 20 26 OaklandCity 0 61 Mt. Olympu.s 20 20 Petersbu.rg 18 63 Oakland City 8 49 Cannelton 0 40 Rockport 8 40 Franoisoo 19 20 Tell Oity 18 32 Tell City 18 34 Owensville 13 '25 Owensville 6 25 Tb.6YieaternStar. Mb. Vernon" Indiana. October 31, 1940, p. ,4. I 29 1 '; i Third Place Tie Third Plaoe Tie POSEYVIIJ:E •• (5..2-0) TELL CITY •• (5...2-0) r o Mt. Vernon 4€J 18 Mt. Vernon 32 (" 44 Dale 27 43 Ohrisney 25 35 Mt. Olympus 20 24 Oannelton 18 36 Chrisney 41 46 Dale 0 52 Owensville e 20 Cannelton 0 38 Rookport 26 18 Petersburg 20 38 Oakland Oi ty 12 54 Rockpart 15 Fifth Place OiENSVILLE •• (3-3-1) ·Sixth Place Tie 6 Mt. Vernon 25 OHRISNEY •• (2 -=3-0 ) o Poseyville 52 41 Poseyville 36 16 Dale 14 25 Tell City '3 22 Mt. Olympus 12 44 Rookport 39 13 Petersburg 34 28 Dale 31 18 Oakland City 18 ( tie) .28 Rockport M 41 Cannelton 32 Eighth Place Tie Sixth Place Tie CANNELTaI •• (2",4-0) DAm•• (2-:;...0 ) 35 Oakland City 8 27 Poseyville 44 18 Tell City 24 14 Owensville 16 o Mt. Vernon 49 o Tell Oity 46 45 Rookport 19 31 Chrisney 28 @: Tell City 20 26 Mt. Olympus 12 32 Owensville 41 Eighth Place Tie ! OAKLANDCITY•• (2-4-1) Tenth Place • I , I o Mt. Vernon 26 ROCKPORT •• (l-5...0) i i 8 Petersburg 63 26 :Poseyville 38 :1 25 Francisco . 0 39 Chrisney 44 i f 26 Mt. Olympus 0 19 Cannelton 45 18 Owensville 18 (tie) 8 Petersburg 40 8 Oannelton 35 15 Tell City 54 12 Poseyville 38 34 Ohrisney 28 Eleventh Place Tie MT. OLYMPUS •• ( 0-6-0) Eleventh Place Tie 20 Mt. Vernon 48 FRANCISOO •• (.0-2-0) 20 Petersburg 61 19 Mt. Vernon 40 20 Poseyville 35 i 0> Oakland Oity ", 25 12. Owens ville 22 C> Oakland Oity 26 12 Dale 26 30 III" THE SPRING MEETIN G OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1941 Aotivities ~ !a! meeting. Since Boonville had with drawn from the Conference, the 1941 track and field meet was transferred to Petersburg when that agreeable school issued an invitation to the member schools. Newly elected . officers of the Conferenoe were Mr. Dale Braun» Cannelton, president; Mr. Elmer Loehr, Dale principal, vice-president; and Mr. Charles W. Hames s Mt. Vernon principal, secretary... treasurer. Officer Don Lashs former Indiana University distance runner and then a member of the Indiana State Po- lice Force, was the principal speaker of the evening. Mr. Lash emphasized the need of keeping the body in good con ditionif one were participating in athletics, and he re lated various incidents in his own athletic career to il lustrate his points.26 IV" TBETHIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MEET Aviotory for Mt. Vernon. Having won the Confer ence football championship in the fall, Net. Vernonts Wild cats, coached by Mre Bob Yoho, continued their dominance with a narrow fifty-two and five-sixths to fifty-two and one-half win over Petersburg on April 26, 1941, on the , 26 "Minutes of the Pocket Athletic Conference See retaries, Cannelton. Indiana, Septemberl4,1953,," p. 17. Indians' home track. Records of other schools competing and their points weret Chrisney, eight; Dale, one and two thirds; Rockport and Oakland City, one each; and Cannelton£! none. With points being seored on a five-three-one basis, Mr. Warren Rueger, Mt. Vernon, set a new Conference Indl~ vidual sooring record of twenty-one points. Rueger won the 100-yard dash in :10.4 and the 220-yard dash in :2403. He tossed the twelve-pound shot forty-five feet and eleven inches and won a fourth blue ribbon by vaulting eleven feet, seven inches in the pole vault. His final point oame on a third-plaoe finish in the broad jump. CHAPTER VI TEE FOURTH YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE Although the Conference started its fourth year on a sound note~ World War II had begun before the year was over, and high school athletics were "beginning to be af... fected. Poseyville became the first school to score a second football championship, and Petersburg oaptured the first in their series of six consecutive Conference track titles I. THE FALL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1941 ! review £! ~ action. Because both the presi- dent, Mr. Braun, and the vice-president, Mr. Loehr, had changed schools during the summers :Mr. Frank Ao Ross ll superintendent-principal at Rockport" was elected presi dent, and Mr. Lester A. Reynolds, principal at Poseyville, was named vice....pre.sident. Although the war had not official ly started for the United States, the problem of obtaining rubber-soled shoes was becoming acute. Hence.l! the question of type of' shoes to be worn in Conference games was settled by a proposed amendment to the By-Laws which read, "Regula tion football shoeswil1 be worn.J .,27 27ttConstitQtion and By-Laws of the Pocket Athletic Conference, Ganne1ton" Indiana, September 14" 1953»lf p. 3. 33 II. THB FOURTH FOOTBALL SEASON"'''''1941 ~ new ohampion. Poseyville, ooaohed by Mr. Verlin Spradlin, beoame the first. Conference school to soore a second football ohampionship. The Posies had captured their initial diadem two years before in 1939. In ad- dition, Poseyville became the sec,ond Conference school to finish its season undefeated; Mt. Vernon being the first school to accomplish this feat in 1940. The 1941 ohampions went through an eight-game schedule with only their 26-22 win over Mt. Vernon being close e They also defeated Francisoo, 68-25; Dale, 48...14; Owensville, 46-6; Oakland City, 53-6; Mt. Olympus, 50-6; and Rockport twice, 56-26 and 45-21. ~ final standing ~ .!2!! ~. WON LOST TIED PERCENTAlE Poseyville 8 0 0 1.000 Tell,City 6 1 0 .857 Mt. Vernon 6 2 0 .750 Cannelton 6 3 0 0667 Owens ville 4 3 0 .571 Rockport 3 3 0 .500 Petersburg 3 4 0 .429 Mt. Olympus 2 4 1 .333 Dale,' 1 5 0 .167 Oakland City 1 '7 0 .125 rI Francisco 0 :3 1 .000 , ! a1Ji.ianey 0 5 0 .000 34' Champion POSEYVILlE.... (8...0 ...0) Second Place 45 Rockport 21 TELL OITY •• (6...1...0 ) 50 Mt. Olympus 6 39 Mt. Vernon 20 2.6 Mt. Vernon 22 45 Oannelton 26 58 Francisco 25 42 Dale 13 48 Dale 14 18 Cannelton 12 46 Owensville 6 30 Petersburg 38 56 Rockport 26 40 ChrisneY'6 53 Oakland Oity 6 32 Oakland Oity 12 Third Place Fourth Place MI'. VERNON .... (6-2...0) CANNELTON •• (6-3=0) 54 Francisco 24 8 Mt. Vernon 24 22 Poseyville 26 12 Tell Oity 18 40 Oakland Oity 25 26 Owensville 12 27 Petersburg 6 28 Oakland City 20 24 Cannelton 8 . 33 Dale 12 45 Mt. Olympus 21 26 Tell City 45 20 Tell City 39 21 Rockport 18 43 Owensville 42 39 0hrisney 14 43 Ohrisney 19 Fifth Place O'WNSVILLE •• ( 4 ...3-0) Sixth PIa.ce i 42 Mt. Vernon 43 ROCKPOR~ •• (3-3-0) 6 Poseyville 46 26 Poseyvllle56 I 34 Mt...Olympus 0 18 Dale 14 28 Dale 7 32 Chrisney 13 50 Petersburg 20 21 Poseyville 45 12 Cannelton 26 36 Chrisney 18 36 Oakland Oity 13 18 Oannelton 21 I I ~ Seventh Pla.ce Eighth Place i PETERSBURG•• (3-4-0) 1V1T. OLYMPUS." (2-4-1) i, 6 Mt. Vernon 27 ,21 Mt. Vernon 45 f 38 Dale 37 I I 6 Poseyville 50 II .50 OaklandOity 25 o Owensville 34 i I 20 Mt. Olympus 22 l'l> 24 Oakland City 0 I I :38. Tall Oity30 13 Francisco 13 (tie) i i .' I' ~, 32 Mt. Olympus 19 22 Petersburg 20 ~' i' 20 Owensville. 50 19 Petersburg 32 1j:'~ il I-I.,';: [,I ,I Tenth Place r !',; Ninth l?laee OAKLAND CITY •• (1-7-0) DA.IE •.• ( l-5-Q) 25 Mt. Vernon 40 14 POseyville 48 6 Poseyville. 53 13 Tell>City , 42 . ()Mt • ,Olympus 24 7 awen.svili1e 2a ····25 ':p:etersbUrg 50 37 "Petersburg' 36 32 Francisco 12 12 Cannelton ,33 2() .Cannelton 28 :1<4 R()ckport ,,18 12 Tell, rC1.ty 32 13 Owensville 36 35- Eleventh Place Tie Eleventh Place Tie FRANCISCO •• (O-3-1) CHRISNEY •• (O-5-0) 24 Mt. Vernon 54 6 Tell City 40 ! i 25 Poseyville 68 13 Rockport 32 12 Oakland City 32 14 Cannelton 39 1 12 Mt. Olympus 12 (tie) 18 Rockport 36 19 Cannelton 43 ! r1.1.mbling of discontent.. Near the end of the 1941 football season, it was reported in The Mt 0 Vernon Democrat: Mt. Vernon High School's contract for a football game with PoseyVille next season has been tu.rned down by PoseyVille High on the grou.nds that the Posies consider the W1ldcats representative of too large a school.28 Althou.gh Poseyville had won two titles in fo1.1.r years of Conference football play, two factors apparently entered into their ref1.1.sal to play Mt. Vernon.29 First, being a comparatively small high school, Poseyville school officials and the coach realized that few good athletic prospects wou.ld be enrolled in school the following year or for sev eral years thereafter. Small high sohools periodically have I I I good athletes for two, three, or maybe fo1.1.r seasons; then, i Ii ') athletics are striotly r1.1.n ...of-the ....m.1ne for several years • . r ! ( I Poseyville was abdicating rathaI' than risk a miserable show... : ! I! ing the following season. 8e cond, war clo1.1.ds were exoeed.... Ii ingly black, and smaller schools were being cu.rbed finan.... , c1ally earlier than larger ones. Hence, Poseyvillerefu.sed toaign a contract to play Mt. Vernon, and, as it later 28brvanR. Hall, Editor. The Mt. Vernon Democrat. ivrt. Verri6Ii"Indiena,00,tClber28, 1941,]';). 3. 29 IntervIew between the writer and,Chst'les "'.Hames, principal at Mt. Vernon. High School, Mt. Vernon, Indiana, , . atMt. Vernon, October 3, 1953. I t'Urned out, dropped the sport completely before the next football season arrived. They did remain in the Conference, however. ~ s'Ummarz of !!:!! meeting. The amendment which made regulation football shoes mandatory for the Oonferenoe was formally adtoped at this meeting. Some schools had been using the entire time between halves of the football games for band oonoerts, parades, and the like () Hence, Mr. George Ashworth, Mt. Vernon coach, moved that band and other ao tivities be limited to twelve min'Utes. The motion, however, died for laok of a second. The ohair suggested that in all fairness, the visiting coach should be notified in advance of the approximate time needed for half-time activitiesoSO M'Uch disc'Ussion was held on the problem of sohools playing a different n'Umber of games and different opponents and t~e ras'Ul~ant bearing on the Conference championship. A com mittee of three principals, Mr. Neff, Cannelton; Mr. Manhart, Pet~rsb'Urg; and Mr. Reynolds, Poseyville, was appointed to st'Udy this problem. :Mr. Manhart presented the idea of us ing tlar<3.e officials in football games rather than just two .as heretofore. Also, .hes'Uggeatedthat in order to secure oompetentoff'icials, 11101'.13 . money wOt!ld have to be paid. The second fall.mee ting olosed with a basketball clinic led py 30tlMinutes of the Pooket Athletic Conference Sec retaries;Cariri.elton, Indiana, October 14, 1953," p. 19. Mr. MarkWakef1eld, Evansville Oentral basketball ooach, lind Mr. Manhart, still a member of the Indiana HighSchool Athletic Association Board of Control. III. THE SPRING mETING OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1942 31 "Minutes of the Conference, n ~ oit., p. 19. elected to serve the following year. Mr. Frank A. Ross, superintendent-principal at Rockport, was renamed presi... dent; Mr. Lester A. Reynolds, principal at Poseyville, was again elected vice-president; and Mr. Charles W. Hames, principal at Mt. Vernon, was chosen to continue as secre... tary-treasurer. IV. TEE FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MEET ! domination ~ Petersburg. On April 24, 1942, at Petersburg, the host sohool repeated their 1941 track and field triumph in sooring a run-away viotory over four other Conference rivals. Petersburg amassed seventy-seven points to oompletely overshadow the field. Tell City was seoond with eighteen points; Rookporthad fourteen; Can nelton, eight; and Oakland City failed to score. :I, , , i CHAPTER VII TEE FIFTH YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE The war oontinued to take its toll of sohools in the Conference, transportation became a problem of major importance, but football oontinued in 1942-43. Another Conferenoe track and field meet was held 1n the spring; however, it practically amounted to an exhibition. I. A SPECIAL FALL MEETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1942 !a effect of ~ oonditions. In view of the orit ical conditions with respect to transportation of athletic squads, this meeting at Boonville on August 25, 1942, was called ahead of the regularly scheduled fall meeting to determine definitely which schools were planning to con tinue to play their six-man football schedules. The seven schools present--Cannelton, Mt. Vernon, Petersburg, Oak- landOity, Owensville, Rockport, and Tell City--were the only ones intending to play football this fall. All games with. other schools were cancelled, and the schedules were rea:r:'rariged with the remaining seven teams in the Conference :b.avin~ siX:. or seven game schedules. PoseyVille withdrew from the Conference, and Mr. C. D. Manhart, Petersburg prine. cipal,was:< elect,edvlce-presiden.t replacing 1VIr • Reynolds., 40 ! report E.l the pointslstem committeee The com mittee aPPointed at the spring meeting in 1942 to work out a possible point system for the Conference gave their re port. They reviewed several possible point systems, par~ ticularly that plan used by the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference. After much discussion, however, it was decided to abandon the proposal to use a point system in selecting a Conference football champion and continue to utilize the peroentage basis. The ~ !..!. h C. point s;ysteme The Southern Indiana Athletic Conference was using a point system for naming both their football and basketball champions. This system was based on what is also known as the Wabash Valley Rating 8ys- teme Points are awarded as follows: For a victory over Q team which has a final peroen~- age ::I tanding of.: .750-1.000 inclusive ...... 10 points .500- .749 inclusive•••• 7 points .250- .499 inolusive.. 5 points .000... .249 inclus1ve I> :5 points:52 II. TEE FIFTH FOOTBALL SEASON--1942 A title to Cannelton. Cannelton's Bulldogs" coaohed by Mr. Mau.rice 8akel$ went through eight games undefeated to win the 1942 championshlp with little difficulty. The new champions defeated Petersburg; 24-8; Rockport, 38-6; Tell 0ity, 20-18; Mt. Vernon, 36-8; Oakla.nd City, 61...13; Owens ville, 41 ....6; Tell Oity again, 44-12; and Petersburg, 56-340 ~ final standing 2! ~ ~. lAVON LOST PERCENTAGE Cannelton 8 o L:tOOO Owens ville 5 2 - .714 NIt The 1942 All-Conference football ~o Following the 1942 season it was decided that an "official" all-star team should be selected for the Conferenoe. Further" it was as sumed that the logioal ones to name such a te am. were the Oonference coaches. Asa reSUlt, the first "officialu All... Conference football t6 am, named by the Conference coaches, was as follows: ENDS--Duncan, Mt. Vernon Swartz and Voyles, Cannelton CENTERS--Goetz,Tell City Ramsey.. Cannelton BACKS--Glen and Truempu, Cannelton Rothwell, Rockport Stettler, lVIt. Vernon III. THE SEOONDFALL :MElETING OF T~CONFERENGE IN 1942 ~.f'ir.st "round-robin" football schedule • For the fir,st time, ,the Conference voted to adopt a "round-robin" schedule·for the next football season in the second fall meeting held at Boonville on November 3, 1942. Each te am i was 'to ,play .fjveryother.'school once.. ,The Conference did r not I'U1Eloutsecond games between natural rivals; however, ii' 43' 'I i these repeat meetings would be in the form of post-season I 'oontests and would not count in Conferenoe standings. I IV. THE SPRING MEETIl~G OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1943 I I i. ! smaller number 2! sohools. In a meeting at Boon ville on Maroh 23, 1943, Owensville announced its with drawal from the Oonferenoe, and Rockport revealed that they would not play football in the fall. Schools remaining were Cannelton, Mt. Vernon, Oakland City, Petersburg, and Tell City. Schedu.les were rearranged wi th eaoh school play... iog each other once. Post-season games, not affecting Con ferenoe standings, were arranged between Oakland City and Petersburg and between Tell City and Cannelton. New of ficers elected were Mr. Marlin E. Kell, Oakland City prin oipal, president; Mr. Lester T. Lee, Tell City principal, _ vice-p~esident; and Mr. Charles W. Hames, Mt. Vernon prin ,j, cipal, re-elected secretary-treasu.rer. i I V• TIm FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MBET i I I i" An easy .!!a ~ Petersburg. Although Cannelton had I annou.nced that they would oompete in this yearts Conference I track and field meet at Petersburg on April 23, 1943, they did not put in an appearance. As aresult only Oakland 01 ty challenged the host school, and this challenge amounted to only token opposition. Petersburg rolled ttP 103 points to , I CHA.PTER VIII THE SIXTH mAR OF Tflg CONFERENCE During the school year of 1943-44, the Conference reached its lowest ebb as far as participating schools are concerned. Only five teams contin~ed to play foot ball, and the ann~al Conference track and field meet was abandoned. Transportation proved a real problem, but football continued ona lim!ted basis 0,) I. THE FALL MmETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1943 !:. problem .2! transportation. The five remaining members of the Conference--Cannelton, Mt. Vernon, Oakland City, Petersburg, and Tell City--met at Boonville on August 31, 1943, to decide whether football should be continued. All scnools intended to continue,jl and the same "round-robintr schedule as used last year was continued this year, bu.t the i I' sites were reversed. Since school buses could not be used, i I because of CiVilian Defense orders, squads were transported I! I' in cars" usually furnished by faculty members. Some schools ste:ted t:h.at they had received extra gasoline from their 10 cs.lrat:lbn boards for this transportation, while others had been unable to get any extra fuel. The consensus was that ~~'W;~egulatt°rJ.s~ould,permit IfB".'book: allowances for all those who assisted in· ~he transportation of groups making 46 ' -qp athlet.ic s qt1ads .33 The ~ situation again. The shoe sit~ation again became a problem at this meeting. It was generally agreed that players should be outfitted in rubber-soled shoes in so far as possible. It had now developed that synthetic rubber-soled shoes were easier to ob~ain than leather shoes. While it was difficult to get any 'type of shoes, athletic equipment dealers were giving first priority on leather shoes to colleges and larger high schools, and the 'Pocket Athletic Conference, which could wear rubber-soled shoes, had to take what remained 0 Hence, the Conference voted that schools could use either the leather or rubber-soled shoes JI and that, "in view of the shoe shortage, it was a greed there would be no protest before, during, or after the game" and that this GantIeman's Agreement would apply to the 1943 season only."54 II «I THE: SIXTH FOOTBALL SEASON--1945 A seoond title !2 Mt. Vernon. In an abbreviated season which found each school playing only four games, Mt. Vernon, now coached by Mr. Maurice Abel, regained their championship in qefeating Tell City~ 55-13; Oakland City, ',' 33 dMinutes of the Pocket Athletic Conference Bee re-taries.j Cannelton, Indiana~ October 14, 1955, It p. 25. 54 Ibid. j .p •.. 25. 41· 24...14; Cannelton, 28-0; and :Petersb~rg, 58 ...13. The final standins 2! 1943 ..El!Z. WON LOST PERCENTA00: Mt. Vernon 4 0 1.000 Tell City 3 1 .'750 Petersb~rg 1 3 .250 Oakland City 1 3 .250 Cannelton 1 3 .250 Complete scores E.!.. ill games !!! 1943. Champion I MT. VERNOW •• (4-0) I 35 Tell City 13 24 Oakland City 14 I, 28 Cannelton 0 58 Petersburg 13 Second Place Third Place Tie TELL CITY •• (3-1) FETERSBURG•• (1-3) 13 Mt. Vernon 35 30 .Oakland City 6 36 Cannelton 13 30 Tell City 54 54 Petersburg 30 13 Mt c Vernon 58 i 18 Oakland City 16 14 Cannelton 39 I Third Place Tie Third PIace Tie OAKLAND CITY." (1-3) CANNELTON •• (1-3) 6 ,Petersburg 30 13 Tell City 36 14 Mt. Vernon 34 Gl! Mt .. Vernon 28 24 Cannelt0I1 0 o Oakland City 24 16 Te11Clty 18 39 Petersburg 14 ~ ~ All-Conference football team. Continuing the custom started last year, the coaches of all the Con .... t ference sohools selected the All-Conference team at the i , .« oonclu.sion of the 1943 football season. In addition to a first team, however, the coaohes decided to name ala 0 a second team. The coaches had received some criticism the ,previous year in not selecting some boys who were very . close in play and·ability to those placed on the All-Con- 48 ference team. Hence, they hoped to ease this pressure and criticism by picking both a first and second team. FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Rueger, Mt. Vernon Fischer, Mt. Vernon Reed, Tell City ENDS Lamour, Oakland City Conner, Cannelton CENTERS Johnson, Mt. Vernon . Bishop, Mt. Vernon Davis, Petersburg Goerlitz, Oakland City BACKS Hames, Mt. Vernon Walters, Petersburg Morrison Jl Mt. Vernon III. THE SPRING MEETIN G OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1944 ~ election of officers. Since there was not enough interest shown in a Conference track and field meet this spring, all schools were invited to participate in the Pe tersburg Rel81s at Petersburg on April 29, 1944. Conferenoe offioers elected for the ensuing year were Mr. Lester T. LaeJlTell City prinoipal, president; Mr. Lorel COleman, Petersl)l.~rg prinoipal, vice-president; and Charles Vi. Hames Jl Mt.>Vernon principal, re-elected seoretary-treasurer. i' CHAPTER IX TIm SEVENTH YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE The same five schools contin~ed to play football thro~gh the seventh season of the Conference. Gasoline and transportation problema had largely been solved, and Mt. Vernon retained the title won the previo~s year in foot ball. Realizing that the Conference needed to be expanded in order to have an organization worthy of a name and also worthy of contin~ed operation, the first move toward a re vival of interest was la~ched during the year. I. THE: SEVENTH FOOTBALL SEASON...... 1944 Ii f I A second successive title 12 Mt. Vernon. For the second consecutive year, Mt. Vernon won the Conference foot ball championship. Also, in winning their third Conference crown, Coach Maurice Abells Wildcats completed their second . i suc.cessive season without a loss or ·a tie to mar their re- i I I cord. Mt. Vernon defeated Tell City, 46 ...22; Oakland City, :;, , 63....22;. Cannelton, 60-13; and Petersburg, 44-18. To many f. i o'b.servers, this 1944 Mt. Vernon team was the best balanced 1: I ! a:ndperhapsthe finest six-man football team in the history ofthe>Oonference. An indication of their power was to come l~te!' in theaelection of ~heAlI-Cohf.ereIlcateamon which fO'lJlr Mt. Vernonboys:;were .·hamed" to) 'the first taain. 50 ' ~firial standing ,2!1944 ~. WON LOST PERCENTAGE Mt. Vernon 4 o 1.000 Tell City 3 1 e'750 Cannelton 2 2 .500 Oakland Oity 1 3 .250 Petersburg 0 4 .000 Complete soores of ill games !!! ~e Ohampion MT. VERN ON •• (4...0 ) 46 Tell Oity 22 63 Oakland City 22 60 Cannelton 13 44 Petersburg . 18 8ecend Place Third Place TELL CITY •• (3-1) CANNELTON ••(2-2) 22 Mt.Vernon 46 8 Tell City 25 25 Cannelton 8 13 Mt. Vernon 60 37 Petersburg 18 20 Oakland City 16 37 Oakland City 8 44 Petersburg 19 FcurthPlace Fifth Place OA.KLAND CITY •• (1-3) PETERSBURG •• ( 0 ...4) 28 Petersburg 12 12 Oakland 01ty 28 22 Mt.Vernon 63 18 Tell City 37 16 Cannelton 20 18 Mt. Vernon 44 8 'Tell City 37 19 Cannelton 44 New acor:tl1g recorda. By scoring 213 points in four 51· .four of the six positiona going to menibers of the Wildcat squad. The complete All-Conference teams: FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Schroeder ~ Te.11 City IE Aldredge, Cannelton Jolley, Mt. Vernon C Malotte, Petersburg Rqeger, Mt. Vernon HE Schoerer, Tell City Hames JI Wt. Verncm QB Ross, Oakland Oity Jarboe, Tell Oity liB Krause, Petersburg Bishop, Mt" Vernon FE Davis, Tell Oity Honorable mentiOn: Rich, Wilhite, and Jones, Oak~ land City;:Paulln and Kendall~ Oannelton; Redman and Black... burn, Mt. Vernon; and Engleman, Petersburg. ~ expansion .!?! 2 All-Conference team. In order ' to further relieve pressure and criticism, the coaches, in selecting an All-Conference team in 1944, added an ttRonor able Mentlontt category. It was the general consensus of the coaches that underclassmen had llttleopportt'tnlty, as a rule, to be placed on either the first or second team. They felt that if there were a category where underclass-' if served as a spot to plaoe a senior, who a coach thought to il: be deserVing of some minor recognition" even if he weren't .' 1 l' ! good enough for the first or second team. II. Tm FALE! l\mETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1944 A~etins to increase Conference membershipo After 52: ' sante discussion on. possible schools which might be intereated t in joining the Conference g Don Marketto, Cannelton princi pal, moved that the secretary contact the following schools relative to a six-man or possibly an eleven-man football Conference: Rockport, Owensville, Dale, Poseyville; FtG Branch" Winslow, otwell, Franclscoj) and Mt. Olympuso Tb.$ motion was passed, and Mr. Hames, the Conference secretary, wrote to all of these schools. III. THE SPRING MEETING OF THE ·CONFERENCE IN 1945 An election of officers G Mre Lorel Coleman .. prin... - - - ...... -.;;,...... , cipal at Petersburg, was elected president for the coming year. Mr. Wf. A. Beaver, who had replaced Mr. Marketto as principal at Carm.elton, was named vlce"'presldenta and Mro Charles W. Hames, Mte Vernon principal, was again elected secret~y$treastlrero OHAPTER X TEE EIGHTH YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE Althou.gh the war ended shortly before the Confer.... ence started their 1945-46 season, no additional schools were added to the Conference prior to· the football season. Petersburg dethroned Mt. Vernon as football champions. Rockport, Dale, and Poseyville all were to reenter the Conference before the school year was over. Track re~ tu.rned as a Conference sport after a two-year lapse" end Petersburg annexed their third straight crown. Thus, Petersbu.rg dominated the Conference championships as did Mt. Vernon in 1940. I. THE EIGHTH FOOTBALL SEASON.....1945 54 The finalstanding of 1945 J2!.!l I'> WON LOST TIED PImCENTA i' that a first team, a second team, and .honorable mention .1 ! f included all those players deserving of recognition. The 1945. squad included three players from the Petersb'qrg cham"!" plonsj> two from.rlmner-up Tell City, and one from Cannelton. Mt. Vernon and Oakland City.. both were represented on the se cond team. i I 55 ' The 1945 team: . I I FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Selby, Petersburg tE Schoerer, Tell City Thomas, Petersburg C Scales, Oakland City I Bolin, Cannelton HE Stephenson, Petersburg Paulin, Tell City QB Lamon, Oakland City Hagedorn, Tell City HB Walker, Mt. Vernon Krause, Petersburg FB Wilhite, Oakland City Honorable mention: Cox, Dyson~ and Dunn, Peters burg; Monarch and Morrison, Mt. Vernon; Perkins, Cannel ton; and George, Tell City. II. THE FALL MEETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 194:5" A revival of interest in ~ Conferenceo During the fall meeting at Boonville on November 1, 1945, Rockport ap i plied for reinstatement to full membership in the Confer- I .\ ence, and this was granted. Also, it was announced that I ! Dale and Poseyville were considering making application for reinstatement. The question was raised concerning the pos sibility of Conference membership being limited to a certain number of schools. No action, however, was taken following a discussion of this proposal. The i?ropos al .2! t.wo ~ amendments. An amendment to dOUble the a1 ze of the pres.ent Board of Directors was pro posed. Under the amendment the Board of Directors would be composed of the principals of each member school, as the Conference had.bet'h'loperating, plus one coachf'rom each mem ber school. Fu.rther, an amendment to make the type shoes 56 . worn in football optional with each individual school was presented. IIIo TEE SPRING rvIEETING OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1946 A ~ football schedule. Dale and Poseyville ap plied for reinstatement to full membe~ship in the Confar <;mce, and this was granted .. Wlith the Conferenoe now com- posed of eight members, a football schedule whereby each school was to play each other once was adopted. It" was a greed that natural rivals could play each other more than once; however, only the first meeting would count as far as Conference standings go. Guarantees on football contracts by home schools to Visiting teams were raised from $10.. 00 to $20.00.. The proposed amendment to the Constitution con- earning a change in the composition of the Board of Dirac-. tors fa~led to secure the necessary two-thirds majority. The amendment was passed to make the type of football shoes optional .with the individual schools. NeWly elected of ficers were Mr.W. A. Beavers, Cannelton principal, presi dent; Mr. Norman Phillips, Rockport principal, vice-presi dent; and Mr. Marlin E. Kell, Oakland City principal, sec- retary-treasurer. , , , " IV. THE: SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK :M&ET ! third titIe to Petersburg. After a two-year lapse during the war years, track and field returned as a Confer- 57' encesport. Petersbu.rg took up right where they left off two years before and captured their third straight crown. The Indians scored seventy-eight points. Rockport was sec ond wi th twenty-one points. Then, followed in order Mt. Vernon, twenty; Cannelton, eighteen; Tell City, thirteen; Oakland City, eight; and Dale, six. CHAPTER XI THE NINTH YEAR OF THE CONFERENCE Sports history was made by the Conference near the end of its ninth year of operation. Following length1 discussions extending over months and-after a demonstra tion game, the Conference voted to inaugurate eight-man football during the following 1947-48 season. A new school to the Conferenoe Jl Richland, was voted into the organiza.... tion, and Owensville was oonsidering the making of an ap plication for reinstatement. Mt. Vernon became the last six-man football champion 1n the history of the Confer ance, and Petersburg continued their domination in track and field. I. THE NINTH FOOTBALL SEASON ....1946 ! fourth title to Mt. Vernon. In the final season of the Conference as a six-man leagu~, Mt. Vernon went un defeated but was tied onoe in gaining their fourth Confer enoe orown. Tell City held the \llVildcata to a 21-21 tie II but the ohampions defeated Rockport, 33...0; Cannelton, 58-42; Dale, 35-.25; Petersburg, 45-28; Poseyville , 39-6; and Oak... land City, 50-20. I ! ~ individual scoring record. In leading Mto Vernon to the championship, Mr. Bob Walker,~ldcat captain, \ I 59 tallied nineteen touchdowns and one extra point for 115 points, a new Conference individual scoring record. Mr. Walker erased the old record of 109 points set by Mr. War- ren Rueger, also of lVlt. Vernon, in 1940. In addition, Mr f) Walker scored one touchdown in a non-Conference game which gave him a total of 121 points for the- season. The final standing 2!. 1946 ~. WON LOST TIED PERCENTAGE Mt. Vernon 6 0 1 1.000 Dale 6 1 0 .857 Tell City 5 I 1 .833 Cannelton 4 3 0 .571 Petersburg 3 4 0 .428 Oakland City 2 5 0 .28(3 Rockport 0 6 1 .000 PoseyVille 0 6 1 .000 Complete scorer of ill games in 1946. Champion Second Place Mr" VERNON •• (6-0-1) D.ALE •• (6...1-(') 21 Tell City 21 (tie) 31 PoseyVille 0 33' Rockport o 40 Tell Oity 14 58 Cannelton 42 50 Cannelton 0 45 Petersburg 28 25 Mta Vernon 35 35 Dale 25 55 Oakland Oity 22 39 Poseyville 6 39 Rockport 6 50 Oakland City 20 . 46 Petersburg 22 Third Place Fourth Place TELLCITY•• (5-1a l) OANNELTON •• (4-3-0) 21 Mt. Vernon 21 (tie) 45 PoseyVille 0 41 Cannelton 35 35 Tell Oity 41 14 Dale 40 42 Mt. Vernon 58 52 Oakland City 33 o Dale 50 33 Rockport. 0 56 Oakland City 44 40 Petersburg 29 35 Rockport· 25 24 PoseyVille 8 45 Petersburg 16 it..•... ·.•.·.•··.••.•.·1 60 Fitth Plaee Sixth Place PETERSBURG•• (3-4-0) OAKLAND CITY •• (2...5-0) 35 Oakland City 18 38 Rockport 20 28 Rockport 6 18 Petersburg 35 28 lVIt It Vernon 45 26 Poseyville 0 45 Poseyville 0 33 Tell City 52 29 Tell Oity 40 44 Cannelton 56 16 Cannelton 45 22 Dale 55 22 Dale 46 20 NIt. Vernon 50 Seventh Place Tie .. Seventh Place Tie ROCKPORT •• (O-6-1} POSEYVILLE •• (0-6-1) 20 . Oakland 0ity 38 o Cannelton 45 o lVIt. Vernon 33 o Dale 31 6 Pe tel'sburg 28 o Oakland City 26 13 Poseyville 13 (tie) 13 Rockport . 13 (tie) o Tell City 33 o Petersburg 45 25 Cannelton 35 6 lVIt. Vernon 39 6 Dale 39 8 Tell City 24 ~ 1946 All-Conference football ~. FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Nunnelly, Mt. Vernon IE McCarty, Oakland City ErVin, Petersburg C ~therland, Tell City Rice, Dale 1m Russell, lVIt. Vernon Reed, Dale QB Dyson~ Petersburg Walker, lVIt. Vernon HE May, Uannelton Bledsoe, Tell City FB Thomas, Oakland City Honorable mention: Ends: James, Tell City, and Grable, Petersburg. Centers: Gladish" Oakland C1 ty, and Belson, PoseyVille. Backs: Roos" Dale; Dau.sman; lVIt. Ver non;. Donley, Tell 01 ty; Jones, Cannelton; and Wells, Rock... p,ort. II.. THE FALL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1946 !!!! start .2! .eight....man football. After Owensville had applied unofficially for reinstatement to full member ship, and it had been reported that Richland was contem platingmemberahip~themeet1ngwastu.rnedinto a complete I I I I' 61 discussion of the possibility of playing an eight~man vari ety of football. This was the suggestion of Mr. Marlin E. Kall,35 principal of Oakland 01ty. The argument for the game was. that all sohools in the Conference, while not hav ing su.fficient enrollment to adopt the eleven-man game, did have enough boys whereby two positions. cou.ld be added with out causing any school undue hardship. Further.!! two ad ditional boys from each school would be getting the oppor tunity to participate, if eight-maD: ball were played. At this meeting on November 12, 1946, nothing definite was done as far as changing to the eight-man game. It was proposed, , however, that all schools try the new game in spring prac I I tice. After a hasty consultation between Mr. Charles W. I "j i Hames,Mt. Vernon.principal, and the Mt. Vernon ooaches g an invitation was issued by Mr. Hames to all the members pres ent to attend a demonstration eight-man game between two Mt. Vernon teams in Mt. Vernon on the date of the spring meet... ing"o£ the Conference. Even after Boonville had withdrawn I ~, . , I from the Conference, the organization continued to hold i i' thelrmaetings in Boonville, since that town was centrally i.: 10cated for all Conference memOers.. With the invitation to Mt.Vernon, however, the practi.ce of-holding the Conference 35 "Mintltes of the Pocket Athletic Conference Sec rEltaries, Cannelton, Indiana, October 14, 1953," p. 31. meetings in the towns in the Conferenoe was startede III. TEE SPRINGrmETING OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1947 ~ offioial sanotioning of eight-man football. Fol lowing a demonstration game of eight-man football by two Mt. Vernon squads on April 3, 1947, the Conferenoe members met in a dinner session. After much disoussion, pro and oon, the Pooket Athletio Conferenoe voted to play eight-man foot... ball, on a trial basis, in 1947. Two linemen were -added tQ the. six-man lineup, and therebyI the ratio of linemen to backs was more comparable to the full-sized eleven-man game than the miniature six-man version. ~ changes for the new eight-man game.. Certain rules of the six-man game had to be altered, sinoe the six man rule book by Epler36 was adopted as the offioial rule book wi th variations as neeessary for the new game.. The clear pass in the backfield, in which the original ball handler must pass the ball to a teammate before it crosses the line of sorimmage was dropped, and the initial back handling the ball oo'Uld run it as in the eleven-man game .. Five offensive men must be on the line of scrimmage at the time of the snap, it was decreed; and only limemen on the ends of the line and the entire backfield were declared to . . 36~tePller:rEpler, 63 ( ! be eligible for passese Penalty for hitting an ineligible receivel' was set at ten yards and loss of the down. Other features of the six-man game ,including the reduced size of the field; i. e., eighty:vards long and forty yards wide, and the rule requiring fifteen yards to gain a first down, were retained. An official sanctioniI!B .2! ~ game. Since the new game was Mr., Kellts idea"he wrote to Mr. L. V. Phillips, Indiana High School Athletic Association Commissioner, to obtain his official sanction of the eight-man game. Mr. Phillips answered: Indiana High School Athletic Association 812 Circle Tower Indianapolis 4, Indiana Mr. Marlin E. Kell, Principal Oakland City High School Oakland City, Indiana Dear Mr. K~ll: The I. H. S. A. A. has no rule which would prevent your Conference using eight men in a football game. If that will improve the game, I am sure that the Board of Control will be glad to see you give it a trial. Very truly yours, /s/ L. V. Pbillips Commissioner 37 37 Letter to Mr • MarlinE. Kell from Mr. Lo V. Phil lips, Indiana High School Athletic Association Commissioner, Indianapolis, Indiana, dated November 1, 1946. 64 IV. THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK M&ET Another Petersburg triumph. On April 21, 1947, at Petersburg, the Indians won their four~h consecutive track and field championship in overwhe lming the field with eighty four and one-fifth points. Mt. Vernon scored twenty-nine and one-tenth; Richland, twenty-three and one-half; Dale, seventeen; Oakland Ci ty, ,six and three-fifths; and Cannel- ton, four. !j, 1 " ,:j I i i I i CHAPTER XII I. TEE TENTH YEAR OF TIm CONFERENCE During the school year 1947-48, the tenth year of the organization, the Pocket Athletic Conference became the firs t group in the world to play eright-man football. The game was met wi th splendid enthusiasm allover the Con ference, as it was more like the regulation game of foot ball. Dale became the first eight~man football champion p Petersburg added their fifth conseoutive track title, and OwenSVille returned to the Conference, making a ten-school organl zation .. I I" TIm TENTH FOOTBALL SEASON--1947 ! ~ first eigh~-man orown !.2~. 'UWhen Dale", who were coached by Mr" Ed Cissna, entertained Mt" Vernon on a newly-lighted field on October 13, 1947, more than two thousand speotators were present to wi tneas the clash be ... tween the two undefeated teams" Mt. Vernon had run over five opponents easily; while Dale had beaten Tell City", ... ! 25-2; Petersburg" 27-6; Richland, 26-6; Poseyville, 53-6,; ! and Oakland Ci ty, 48-12. Midway in the firs t quarter Dale had the ball on Mt. Vernon's thirty-eight yard line. Fol lowing a time out., the D~le center took his stance over the ball with a group of other Dale players merely s tanding on 66 or near the scrimmage line. The referee gave the signal tliat the ball was "l"eady for play", but the Mto Vernon boys were uwai ting" for the Dale squad to line 'Up.. Quickly, the Dale center shoveled the ball to a "baok" in the gro'Up of players to his right, and before the w[ldoats oould figure what was happening, the Dale back, Mr ... Jimmie Roos, had gone over the goal line standing 'UP behind six blookers. Dale kicked the point, which ~as good for two points, and al though the teams exchanged to'Uchdo~B later, this triok play gave Dale the game. In their final two oontests, Dale mere ly romped over Rockport, 51-6, and Cannelton, 36-7 .. ~ final standins .£! 1947 ~. WON LOST PERCENTAGE Dale 8 o 1.000 Mt. Vernon 7 1 0875 Tell City 6 2 0750 Petersburg 5 3 0625 Cannelton 3 5 .375 Poseyville :3 5 0375 Richla.nd 2 6 0250 Oakland City 1 7 .125 Rockport 1 7 0125 Complete soores of ~ games .~ .!ill. Champion DAIE •• (8-0) 25 Tell City 2 27 Petersburg 6 26 Riohland 6 53 Poseyville 6 48 Oakland City 12 14 Mt. Vernon 8 51 Rookport 6 36 Cannelton 7 Second Place Third Place MT. VERNON •• (7-1) TELL CITY •• ( 6-2 ) 47 Poseyville 0 2 Dale 25 12 Oakland City 7 13 Petersburg 7 58 Rockport 14 41 Richland 6 54 Cannelton 6 51 Poseyville 6 14 Tell City 0 26 Oakland City 14 8 Dale 14 o Mt • Vernon 14 21 Petersburg 8 51 Rockport 19 27 Richland 0 27 Cannelton 0 Fourth Place . Fifth PIace Tie PETERSBtJRG •• (5-3) CANNELTON ••( 3 ....5 ) 25 Cannelton 0 o Petersburg 25 7 Tell City 13 32 Richland 6 6 Dale 27 13 Poseyville 18 46 Rookport 0 6 Mt. Vernon 34 50 Richland 14 33 Rockport 12 22 Poseyville 0 o Tell City 27 8 Mt. Vernon 21 7 Dale 36 Fifth Place Tie Seventh Place POSEYVILLE •• ( 3 ...5 ) RICHLAND •• (2-6) o Mt. Vernon 47 14 Rockport 6 o Rockport 7 6 Cannelton 32 18 Cannelton 13 6 Tall City 41 6 Dale 53 14 Petersburg 30 6 Tell City 51 6 Poseyville 8 o Petersburg 22 25 Oakland City 18 8 Richland 6 6 Dale 26 18 Oakland City 13 o Mt. Vernon 27 Eighth Place Tie Eighth Place Tie OAKLAND CITY•• (1-7 ») ROCKPORT ... (1-7) 7 Mt. Vernon 12 6 Richland 14 16 Rockport 0 7 Poseyville 0 6 Cannelton 13 o Oakland City 16 14 Tell City 26 14 Mt" Vernon 38 12 Dale 48 o Petersburg 46 13PetersbUl"g 36. 12 Cannelton 33 18 Richland 25 19 Tell City 51 13· Poseyville 18 6 Dale 51 68 The first eight-man All-Conference team. In naming the 1947 All-Conference team, the coaches abandoned the cus"" tom of the past three years and did not list a group for honorab1e mention. The all-star teams were: FIRST TEAM SEOOND TEAM Hemmer, Dale IE .rones, Cannelton Peterson, Tell City LG Marchand~ Tell City Chamness, Petersburg C Cooper, .1Jale Guth, Dale RG Sibert, Tell City Russell, Mt. Vernon HE Steer, Petersburg Coleman, Oakland City QB George, Tell City Roes, Dale HE Hemmingway, Rockport Weintraut, Mt. Vernon FB Litherland, Tell City ! swn:mary of ~ first year .2! eight-man football. The addition of two linemen provided increased line play with the resultant more real football. When Oakland City visited Petersburg, that school had the largest home attendance in its history, which included both six-man and eleven-man. Tell City; Dale; and lVIt. Vernon all had exceedingly profit able seasons, and both PoseyVille and Richland lost less money than in a six-man season. At the conclusion of t;b.e season, theMt. Vernon Democrat said: The experimental eight-man football game of ,1947 has proved so successful with speotators, school officials, coaches, and players that it is believed the game can only grow in popularity. This new game is quite near the regUla tion sport, but by utilizing three less boys per team, high schools with. limited enrollments oan-field a team and still retain adequat~ substitutee .38 38 OrVan:El.Hall,E II. THH: BERING MBETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1948 ! ~ football rule changes. Because moat of the officials working football games in the Pocket Athletic Conf,erence also worked eleven-man games, it was decided to simplify their work by adopting the eleven-man rule book39 as the official rule book and to make such variations from that as are necessary for-- the eight-man game. Major varia tions from the eleven-man game rulea were the same-sized field, eighty yards by forty yards, as used in the six-man game; the retention of fifteen yards necess ary for a first down; and the retention of scoring as in the six-man game. Thus, the scoring would remain six points for a touchdown, two for a safety, four for a field goal, two for a success ... ful kick after a touchdown, and one for a suocessful pass or run from scrimmage after a touohdown. Other business 2a ~ agenda. Although there was much discussion about the prospect of going on to the e. leven-man game, it was voted to continue the eight-man contest during the coming year. NeWly elected offioers were Mr.CharlesW. Hames J Mt. Vernon prinoipal.. president; Mr. Robert Harris; Riohland principal, Vice-president; and 39 National Federation Football Committee. Official Football Rules, 1948. Ohicago: National Federation of High School Athletic Associations, 1948. Pp.96. 70 Mr. tester T. Lee, Tell City principal; secretary...treas'Qrer. III. THE EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK 1VlEET ! fifth titIe .!2 Petersl:l1~rg. Petersb'Qrgts Indians continued their dominance of Conference track and field titles by taking their fifth consecutive crown at Peters- 'II burg on April 24, 1948. The winning Indians scored sixty'" two points., while Mt. Vernon came somewhat closer this year to soore forty...five. Other schools, and points were Rich... land, thirty-five; Oakland City, seven; Rockport, six; Poseyville, five; Dale, four; ad Oannelton, one. I I' i CRAFTER XIII f I THE:EIEVENTH lEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE Ii The 8eoond season of elght...man football proved just as sucoessful as the first; and at the end of the season, there was no cl'U6stion about the contiil'Uanoe of the game. The game had been on trial .for two ye aI's, and it had passed suooess.t'ully. FrQm this point forward the Oon.ference de voted itsel.f to improving the eight-man game rather than looking .for som.e other fall sport to whioh they might trans fer. Petersburg won their second Conferenoe football crown and oontinuedtheir sweep o.f track and field titles" New indiVidual and team Conference football sooring reoords were established. Finally, a freshman basketball tourna ment was added to the Conferenoe sports sehedu1e. I. THE ELEVENTH FOOTBALL SEASON""""1948 The football orown .:!!! Petersburg. With only a 13...13 tie to ma.r thetr reoord, Petersburg oaptured their second Conference football championship. The Indians defe ated Cannelton, 14-0; TellCtty, 43-10; Owensville" 57...12; Rich land, 34-14;Poseyvll1e, 42-8; Oakland City, 41-20; Rock port, 47-12; mdMt. Varnon, 50-0; and were held! to the tie by Dale. Mr. William. Weathers, who ha.d returned to Peters burglaat year from army duty during World War II, guided the 1948 champions to their title. ~ final standlns ~ ~ ~$ WON LOOT TIED PERCENTAGE Petersburg 8 0 1 1.000 Tell City 7 2 0 .778 Dale 6 2 1 .750 M't. Vernon 6 3 0 .667 Oakland Oity 6 3 0 .667 Cannelton 5 4 0 .555 Rockport 3 6 0 .333 Richland 2 7 G .286 Owensville 1 a 0 .111 Poseyville 0 9 0 0000 Complete soores !f !!! games !a 1948. Champion Second Place PETERSBURG•• (8-0-1) TELL CITY ••(7-2-0) 14 Cannelton 0 41 Owensville 2 43 Tell City 13 19 Dale 13 13 Dale 13 (tie) 13 Petersb~rg 43 57 Owensville 12 33 Cannelton 6 34 Richland 14 12 Richland 0 42 Poseyville 8 41 Poseyville 0 41 Oakland City 20 15 Oakland City 21 47 Rockport 12 25 Mt. Vernon 6 50 Mt. Vernon 0 51 Rockport 0 Third Place Fo~rth Place Tie DAm •• (6...g ....1) MT. VERNON •• ( 6..5 ...0 ) 6 Cannelton 18 50 Richland 0 13 Tell City 19 73 Poseyville 6 82 Owensville 32 27 ' Oakland City 7 l3Petersburg 13 (tie) 47 Owensville 0 46 Hichland 6 36 Rockport , 12 '46 PoseyVille 16 39 Cannelton 18 40 Oakland City 14 6 Tell City 25 13 Mt. Vernon 8 8 Dale 13 32 Rockport 18 o Petersburg 50 73 '1 1 , Fourth Place Tie Sixth Place OAKLAND CITY •• (6-3-0 ) CANNELTON ... (5...4-0) 38 Poseyville 12 18 Dale 6 33 Owensville 12 G Petersburg 14 7 Mt. Vernon 27 22 HichIend 8 41 Rookport 20 6 Tell City 33 20 Cannelton 12 43 Poseyville 2 21 Tell City 15 12 Oakland City 20 14 Dale 40 18 Mt. Vernon 39 20 Petersburg 41 66 Rockport 20 37 Richland 14 45 Owensville (} Seventh Place Eighth Place ROGKP.ORT •• (3-6-0) RICHLAND •• (2-7"'0) 24 Richland 8 o Mt. Vernon 50 32 Poseyville 10 8 Rockport 24 20 Oakland City 41 8. Cannelton 22 12 IVIt. Vernon 36 o Tell City 12 51 Owensville 18 6 Dale 46 20 Cannelton 66 14 Petersburg 34 o Tell City 51 36 Owensville 6 18 Dale 32 44 Poseyville 6 12 Petersburg 47 14 Oakland City 37 Ninth Plaoe Tenth Place OWENSVILLE •• (1-8-0( POSEYVILLE •• (0-9-0) 2 Tell Oity 41 12 Oakland 01ty 38 12 Oakland City 33 6 Mt. Vernon 73 32 Dale 82 10 Rockport 32 o Mt. Vernon 47 g Cannelton 43 12 Petersburg 5' o Tell City 41 i .1 18 Rockport 51 16 Dale 46 i f· 6 Richland 36 8 Petersburg 42 I o Cannelton 45 6 RichIand 44 I 28 Poseyville 0 o Owensville 28 I t The 1948 All-Conference football team. The Confer r ence eoachea revived the cua tom of naming an honorable men'" t" ,i. tion group in addition to both the first and second all-star I i,-~ i:I teams in 1948. A tie for a first team position was are .... suIt of the voting; henoe" both boys were listed on that te.all1by the coaches.>_ 74 FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Hemmer" Dale m Badger, Cannelton Wbite, Oakland City LG Cooper, Dale Chamness, Petersburg Seibert, Tell City C Smith, Tell City Guth, Dale RG Rudisill, Richland Steer, Petersburg BE Finney, Oakland City Rumble, Petersburg QB Yaggi, Cannelton Deputy, Oakland City HB Potts, Nt. Vernon Snyder, Dale FB Litherland, Tell City Honorable mention: Evrard and Fischer, Tell City; Peach and Redman, Owensville; Paulin and Kendall~ Cannel ton; Dausman and Heriges ,-- Mt. Vernon; Dilley and Manhart, Petersburg; Eenthoefer, Poseyville; Seifert and Bockstahler, Dale. Smith and O'Neal, Oakland City; Hargis and Statler, Rockport; and Burkhart and Nunn, Richlande New scoring records .!!! ~ Conference" With the change to the regulation eleven-man rule book, the six-man rule of ending a game when one team gets forty-five points II i: I in the lead was scrapped. As a result, on September 10, ,I 1948, Nt. Vernon set a new Conference scoring record with )' I sev~nty...~hree points over Poseyville. One week later on I September 17 against Owensville, Dale surpassed Nt. Vernon's I f total by scoring eighty-two, a record which remains today. I I Also, on October 8, 1948, Bob Dausmari, Nt. Vernon back, I I- I, scored six touchdowns and one extra point for a tot-al of I I~ thirty-one points in Nt. Vernonts win over Cannelton. This f i remains today as the record for individual scoring in a J< I !''O. single gsme lit .Il~ ',-:' ,c II. THE FALL MEETING 'OF TBECOl\TFERENCE TN 1948 A singlij ~ change. Three items of bUs ines s were , "i , ·i,'. 75 transacted at the fall meeting of the Oonference held at Richland on November 8, 1948. First, it was decided to count tie games in football as one€,half' game won and one"" half g~e lost. However, since the Oonference champion is figured on a percentage basis, this would not affect final standings" It would serve merely as a guide throughout the season to determine the relative standings of the 00nference teams. Second, it was voted to have the official timer at the bench rather than having one o~ the game officiQls keepo the clock. Officials working the eight-man game were want ... ing more money or an added official. The Conference mem bersfelt that if the timekeeping job were taken from one of the officials, they would have more time to devote to the game itself. Finally, the Conference voted to hold the first annual freshman basketball tournament at Cannelton on J anu.ary 8 and Janu.ary 29, 1949" All schools except Poseyville indicated that they would compete in this fresh'" man tournament.. III. THE FIRST ANNUAL FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TOURNAIVlENT The title !2 Owensville. A strong OWensville frosh sq'Uad.'Upset the favored host schoolS' Oannelton, in the fi nal game to win·the first Oonference freshman basketball 'tournament. The complete results of the first freshman tournament follow: 76 ~R~i~c~h:lan~d~·~--~1~9-Owensville 22 Owensville 32 Owens ville 32 Mt. Vernon 24 6akland City 21 Mt • Vernon 15 OWENSVILlE Tell City 22 . Champion .;;CFa=nn=e....,1~t;:-o.:.enl....-...... ;;:2~9-C anne1 ton 47 .. Cannelton 26 25 R =a..;;.o:.=C:.,;;.k-p-o-r"":"t----=3'li-i-.Dale 00k POl't23 IV. THE SPRING MEETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1949 The start ~ Conference basketba1le At the spring meeting of the Conference. in Petersburg on April 4" 1949" Mr. Dee Hand ll Rockportprinclpal, raised the question as to why the Conference did not include a basketball schedule fnits act!vities and suggested that the pres ident appoint a committee to study thisq'l16stion and report at the fall m.eeting.40 This was done, and the committee to study the possibilities of a Conference basketball schedule consisted of Mr. Hand; lVIr. Marlin Eo Kell", Oakland City principal; and Mr. Robert Harris, Richland prin~ipalo New officers elected were Adolphus Sears" Poseyville principal, presi dent; Mr. Loren Lanman, Dale principaljl vice-president; and Mr. Charles MacOwan, Cannelton principaljl secretary.. treasurer. V• THE NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MEET 40 "Minutes of the Pocket Athletio Conference Sec retaries,Ce.nnelton" Indiana, November 19, 1953," p. 350 77 ! sixth title to Petersbl.U"ga The hos"1:; Indians scored their sixth straight Conference track end field championship on April 23, 1949, in tallying seventy-nine and one-half points. Mt<) Vernon again ran second with fifty-one and one'" half pointso Cannelton had fourteen and one ...half; Dal e !1 six and one-half; Poseyville, five; and Oakland City and Richland, one each.. Six Conference 'records were broken in this 1949 meet. Mr. Byrus. Bement, Petersburg, set new recorda in both hurdle events; :16o~ in the high hurdles and :24.1 in the low hurdles. Mro John East, Poseyville, ran the mile in 4:53.. 1, and Mr. Dick Carter, Petersburg, pole-vaulted eleven feet, eight inches. Mr. John Steer, Petersburg, went six feet, one inch in the high jump, and Mr. Vercil Potts, ·Mt. Vernon, tossed the shot fifth feet, six incheso CHAPTER XIV TEE TWELFTH 'YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE Although there had been talk and discussion re garding the advisability of closing the Conference member ship at a specific number of schools, nothing definite had been done until this year. During 1949-50, however, the Conference became a closed organization with its present ten members. A new school could be admitted only if one of the present members withdrew. Petersburg re peated its sweep of titles in both football and tracke Basketball became a Confe~ence sport with Tell City and Owensville sharing the crown, and Mt. Vernon gained a share of Conference glory in taking the second annual freshman basketball tournament • . I. THE: TVlmLFTHFOOTR.4.LL SEASON--1949 A repeat £l Pe.tersburg. Petersburg completed its second season in succession wi thout a loss to take their third Conference football crown. The Indians defeated Rockpo~t, 20~14; Cannelton, 22-20; Tell City, 8-6; Dale, 48 ...6.; Owensville, 36-0jRichland,65"'6; Poseyville, 42-14; OaklandCi~:v,:l.~-l~i;< ~ndMt. Vernon, .. 22';'14.• ! neVrindiiddualscoring record. By scoring twenty- ,: C' ...,'._..... ,. "":' , ...... '.,' ,;' .,.::: ., two touchdovms,Mr~ .CharlesKendallj Call11elton fu.llbaOk, set 79 a new Conference individual scoring record of 132 points o The old record had been held by Mr. Bob Walker p Mt. Vernon, who soored 115 ppints in 1946, which was the final season that the Conference played six-man balle ~ final standing of 1949 ..Pl:!!l. WON LOST pgROENTA~ Petersburg 9 o 1.000 Tell City 8 1 .889 Cannelton 7 2 .778 Rockport 6 :3 .667 Mt. Vernon 4 5 .444 Owensville 4: 5 .444 Oakland City 3 6 .333 Richland 2 7 &222, Dale 2 7 0222 Poseyville 0 9 .000 Champion SeC ond PIace PETERSBURG•• (9-0) TELL CITY oe (8...1 ) 20 Rockport 14 19 Owensville 8 22 Cannelton 20 13 Dale 0 8 Tell City 6 6 Petersburg 8 I 48. Dale·. 6 36 Richland 14 r 36 Owensville 0 30 Poseyville 18 1 65 Richland 6 32 Oakland City 14 42 Poseyville 14 25 !\!Ito Vernon 0 14 Oakland City 12 20 Roc~port 0 I 22 , Mt. Vernon 14 13 Cannelton 6 I Third Place Fourth Place. I CANNELTON •• (7-2) ROCKPORT.G (6-3) i 33 .0 . r'~l Dale 14 Petersburg 20 f 20 Petersburg 22 32 Richland 0 43 Richland 13 8 Poseyville 6 38 Poseyville 6 14 Oakland C1 ty 13 40 Oakland City 7 8 Mt. Vernon 0 56 Mt. Vernon' 32 ,14 Owensville ·12 37 Rockport 6 6 Cannelton 37 18 Owensville 6 ' O· Tell City 20 6 Tell City 13 39 Dale 6 80 Fifth Place Tie Fifth Plaoe Tie Mr. VERNON •• (4-S) OWmNSVILLE •• (4-5) 34 Richland 6 8 Tell City 19 o Rockport 8 26 Oakland City 19 62 Poseyville 0 32 Dale 0 14 Oakland City 0 6 Mt. Vernon 20 20 Owensville 6 o Petersburg 36 32 Oannelton 56 12 Rookport 14 Q Tall Oity 25 14 Richland 8 6 Dale 18 6 Cannelton 18 14 Petersburg 22 30. Poseyville 19 Se venth Place Eighth PIace Tie O.A.KLAND CITY•• (3-6) RICHLAND. ",(2-7) 21 Poseyville l~ 6 Nit. Vernon 34 19 Owensville 26 o Rockport 32 o Mt .. Vernon 14 13 Cannelton 43 13 Rockport 14 '14 Tell City 36 7 Cannelton 40 33 Dale 31 14 Tall City 32 6 Petersb'lllrg 65 27 Dale 20 8 Owensville 14 14 Richland 13 32 Poseyville 7 12 Petersburg 14 13 Oakland City 14 Eighth PIaca Tie Tenth Place DAm •• (2-7) POSEYVILm '" • ( 0-9 ) . o Cannelton 33 14 Oakland City 21 o Tell City 13 o Mt. Varnon 52 o Owensville 32 6 Rookport 8 6 Petersburg 48 6 Cannelton 38 31 Richland 33 18 Tell City 30 24 PoseyVille 6 6 Dale 24 20 Oakland City 27 14 PeterSburg 42 18 Mt. Varnon 6 7 Riohland 32 6 Rockport 39 19 Owensville 30 The .~ .. All-Conferenoe football team. In seleoting the 1949 all-star team, the Conferenoe coaohes nominated the boys they want.ed for each position. Then, each coach had one vote on the .boj'"s nominated for each position. This resulted in a tiet'.or both right guard and right end; hence 1I '...... , both boys wer.e .. namadto the.f1rst team. A tie for left ",.,:;,' ,,"":- \. ,c gUard on the' second team was handled similarly" and the 81 grea.test n~mber ever were named to honora.ble mention. This resulted from the faot that each ooach was permitted to name any two boys from his team to the honorable mention oategory. The entire All-Oonferenoe teams: FIRST TEAM SEOOND TEAM Brenton, Fetersburg IE FeU, Tell City Fisoher, Tell Oity McDaniels, Oannelton LG White, Owensville Bartlett,9 MtG Vernon C Smith, Tell Oity Peter, Tell Oity Winchell" Rookport RG DeJarnett, Oakland City F. Garrett, Owensville BE Ham, Cannelton Martin, Poseyville C. Kendall, Oannelton B Smith, Mt. Vernon ,Carter, Petersburg B GQimond~ Oakland City Lillpop, Rockport B Yaggi, Uannelton Evrard, Tell Oity B Roth, Riohland Honorable mention: Linemen...... Burden and Young, Rockpor.t; Owens and Maxey, 0annelton;GQth and Hartley, Dale~ Fitch and wright, Oakland City; Redman, Owensville; Hartmann, :wit. Vernon; ..Wassman, P,oseyville; and Weinbaoh, Richland. Baoks --Fraeman and.Elder, .. Te 11 '01t'1; De 00leman and 'Webber, Petersburg; He.nsley, OwenSVille; Sohisler_ :wit. ' Vernon; Powers, Poseyville; and Grant, Riohland. II. TIm FALL MEETING OF THH: OONFERENCEIN 1949 ~ sanctioning .!! Conferenoe 'basketball. Upon the reoommendation of the oommittee which had been appointed at the spring meeting to study the i>0ssibility of basketball as a OOnfere:ncesport, action was taken by the Conference tllat t~s.po:rt be adopted. The comm1tteefurther reoommended and, theConterence agreed that beo&usebasketball sohedules hQd"alr~ady been; arranged for the cu.r:ren,t year, four gtames, "with·Conference teams were neesssary to qu.alify a school for the championship. Next ·ye ar five Conference games would be requ.ired, and thereafter, to be eligible for the champion- ship, a school must play-one game more than half the number of sohools in the Conferenoe. Also, 1n cases where two te ams mee t more than onoe, only the firs t meeting was to count toward Conferenoe standings, and tournament games were not to be figured at all in Oonferenoe standings. It was voted that the championship be decic;ied on a percentage basis; regardless of the number of games played by a school as long as the minimum requirement was met. III. THffi FIRST BASKETBALL SEASON...-1949 ....A -tie -...----for. the. title. Tell Oity, with seven wins and no defeats, and Owensville, with four wins and no losses, were deolared co-champions at the end of the first Confer... ence basketball seasone Disagreement and disgust arose as a result of this., beoause Tell City admittedly had played a muoh more difficult sohedUle both in the Conferenoe and out; however, it WQS agreed to play this season on a peroentage basis,. and 'both schoolsf'inished undefeated. Representatives from Tell City argued. that seven wins should 'be deserving of.a.higher rank than four wins, even thou.gh both sohools were'Qndefeated... This. stand. aroused the ire of Owensville -. offi·o1als who~ of oourse~ felt that the ConfeJ:'ence rUle of 83, deciding the qhampionship on a percentage basis shoUld be followed. Tempers flared but the result was that a co= championship was declared. The final standing ..2f 1949 basketball. WON LOST FBRCENTAGE Tell City 7 o 1.000 Owensville 4 o 1.000 * Petersburg 2 1 0667 Cannelton 3 2 .600 Dale 3 3 .500 Mt. Vernon 3 4 .429 Rockport 1 3 .250 Riohland 1 5 .167 * Poseyville 0 1 .000 Oakland City 0 5 0000 * Not eligible for the ohampionship because of not playing too required number of games, four. Complete scores 2! !!! ~ basketball gameso Co-Champion TELL CITY •• (7...0) Co ...Chem.pion 59 Dale 47 OWENSVILLE •• (4-0) 75 Richland 21 52 Richland 39 33 Cannelton 31 56 Dale 31 62 Mt. Vernon 37 63 Oakland City 51 65 Oakland City 36 62 Mt. Vernon 56 47 Petersburg 33 43 Rookport 32 Fourth Place Third Place DAm •• (3...3) CANNELTON •• ( 3"'2) 47 Tell Oity 59 37 Mt. Vernon 27 52 Mto Vernon 37 49 Rookport 25 36 Cannelton 28 31 Tell City 33 51 Richland 43 28 Dale 36 31 Owensville 56 53 Riohland 42 39 Petersburg 42 Fifth Plaoe Ml' .. VERNON ... (3...4) 27 Cannelton 37 Sixth Plaoe 37 Dale 52 ROCKPORT •• (1-3) 37 Tell City 62 25 Cannelton 49 51 Rockport 44 61 Richland 58 61 Poseyville 39 44 Mto Vernon 51 56 Owensville 62 32 Tell City 43 67 Oakland City 56 Seventh Place RICllLAND ... (1...5) Eighth Place 39 Owensville 52 OAKLAND CITY •• (0-5 ) 21 Tell City 75 49 Richland 56 58 Rockport 61 ... 37 Petersburg 42 56 Oakland City 49 51 Owensville 63 43 Dale 51 36 Tell City 65 42 Cannelton 53 56 Mte Vernon 67 Unplaced PETERSBURG •• ( 2...1) Unplaced 42 Oakland City 37 POSEYVILLE •• (O-l) 42 Dale 39 39 Mt~ Vernon 61 33 Tell City 47 ~ first· All-Conference basketball team. Follow ~ng .the custom adopted for selecting the All-Conference football,teams, the Conference coaches selected the 1949 all-star basketball team.. Owensville, which after a long ~"gumenthad been declared the Conference co-champion with Tell City, was further dis gruntled when not one of the k:1.cJiapoos wasnaIlled to either the first or second AII-Oon ference basketball team. FIRST TEAM . SEC OND TEAM Scott, Tell City Sarver, Richland Ke.ndallf .Canne~ton .Nossett, Oakland City Feix,Tell City Brenton, Petersburg .Le.chner, ...TelIOity Bartlett, Mt. Vernon Livengood, Dale Gordon, Rockport 85 i' Honorable mention: Hopkins and Hardin, Oakland City; j t , I Carey and Black~ Petersburg; G. Garrett and Roy Hensley, Owensville; Yaggi, Canneltonl Weedman, Poseyville; Marvel ! I and Smith, Mto Vernon; Wahl and Rudeil, Richland; and Crews, , I J Daleo j IV. THE SECOND ANNUAL FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TQURN~NT ~ crown !.2 Mt& Vernon. Mt. Wernont's freshmen, sparked by the first Negro to ever participate in Confer ence athletics, easily won the second annual Conference freshman basketball tournament and ,went on to score eleven non-Conference victories for an undefeated seasono The presence of this Negro, Mr. John Johnson, on Mt. Vernon's team was made possible by the 1948 Indiana State Legis latu.rets ruling against segregation in public high schools in Indiana. The complete 1949 freshman tournament resu.lts: Petersburg 21 IHchland 11 Petersburg 15 Mt. Vernon 41 Mt. Vernon 40 Cannelton 19 Mt. Vernon 28 l'LlI'. VERNON ~el1 City 37 ~0iF-iV'':;'en;;;;'s-v'''':i;:''1~1f--e-~3~3~Te11 City 17 Champion Oakland C1ty 27 ~~;and C1ty ~~ Oakland City 28 J ,'j V. THH: SPRING MreETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1950 Two minor f60tballrule changes. Although most schoolshac1 been plac:1ng tlie ball on the two-yard line for a try forpolntafter a touchdown, some had been following 8'6 the six-man rule book on this point and placing the ball on the one-yard line. It was voted to follow the Official Rule Book41 and pla.ce the ball on the two-yard line 0 Second:> al though the rule book says that football games are to be played in four quarters of twelve minutes each for high school boys, it was decided to use the.six-man version of length of periods and play ten-minute quarters. New of ficers elected were Mr. L~ren Lanman, Dale principal, presi dent; Mr. Marlin E. Kall, Oakland City principal, vice president; and Mr. Charles I. Swaim, Cannelton principal, secretary-treasurer. VI. THB TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK lVEET ! seventh successive title to Petersburg. On April 22" 1950, at Petersburg, the Indians took their seventh Conference track and field title in succession. Petersburg scored sixty-eight and one-third points. Cannelton was second With fifty-four and five-sixths. Mt. Vernon scored thirty-nine and five-sixths; Tell City, twenty-two; Owens ville, two; and Rockport, Oakland City, and Richland, none each. Mr. Dick Carter, Petersburg, put on the biggest \ individual performance since Mr. Warr~n Rueger, Mt. Vernon» soored twenty-one points in 1941. MroCarter accounted for twenty points as he won four of. JPetersburgts six blue rib bons. He ran the high hu.rdles in :16.8 and the low hurdles 87 in :25.20 His twelve foot, one inch jump in the pole vault was a new Conferenoe reoord, and he won the broad jump with a le~p of nineteen feet; five and three-quarters inohese Mr. Lowell zellers, Cannelton, set a new Conference reoord in the mile run with a time of 4:45.7, while Mro Jack Yaggi, also of Cannelton" tied lVIr. Rueger's 1:00-yard dash mark of :10.4. Tm THIRTEENTH 'YEAR OF THE CONFERENCE During the 1949-50 school year the Focket Athletic Oonference became a closed ol"ganization with ten members" A new school co'Uld be admitted only if" one of the present members withdrew. At the beginning of the 1950-51 season, PoseyVille withdrew from 'the Oonference, but Chrisney was voted admission. Petersburg again -repeated its sweep of titles in both football and track. Tell City won the basketball crown wi th no Conference losses, and Mte Vernon .on its second successive freshman basketball tournament. Ie THE THIRTEENTH FOOTBALL SEASON.....1950 Petersburg repeats. Petersburg completed its third season in s.uccession witho'Ut a loss but was tied by Can nelton, 6-6, to annex their fourth Conference football cr.own. The Indians defeated Rockport, 42-14; Tell Oity, 20-16; Dale, 45...13; Owensville, 48-6; Richland, 48 ...6; Ohrisney, 46-13; OaklandCity, 42-26,; and Mt. Vernon, 40...a. ~final standing.2! 1950 ~. WON LOST TIED PERCENTA~ Petersburg 8 0 1 1(11000 Mt" Vernon '7 1 1 .875 Tell City 7 1 1 .875 Rockport 6 3 0 .667 Owensville 5 4 0 .556 Cannelton 4 4 1 .500 Oakland City 2 6 0 .250 Dale 2 7 0 .220 Chrisney 1 7 0 .125 Richland 0 9 0 .000 Complete scores -of -all games -in 1950. Champion . Second Place Tie PETERSBURG •• (8-0-1) MT .. VERNON •• (7....1 ...1 r 42 Rockport 14 50' Richland 0 6 Canne lton 6 (tie) 60 Chrisney 0 20 Tell City 16 38 Oakland Oity 6 45 Dale 13 43 Owensville 0 48 Owensville 6 29 Rockport 28 48 Richland 6 38 Oannelton 12 46 Chrisney 13 12 Tell City 12 (tie) 42 Oakland City 26 49 Dale 0 40 Mt. Vernon 8 8 Petersburg 40 Second Place Tie Fourth Place TELL CITY•• (7-1-1) ROCKPORT •• ( 6...3 ...0) 18 Owensville 12 14 Petersburg 42 '61 Dale 0 25 Richland 6 16 Petersburg 20 54 Chrisney 6 38 Richland 6 24 OaklandCity 0 52 Ohrisney 0 28 Mt" Vernon 29 520ak1e.ndOlty6 14 Owensville 12 12 Mt. Vernon 12 (tie.) 19 'Cannelton 12 29 Rockport 6, 6 Tell City 29 42 Cannelton 0 32 Dale 18 Fifth Place Sixth Place OUlBNSVILIE •• (5...4-0) OANNELTON •• (4-4-1) 12 Tell'City '18 12 Dale 6 34 Oakland;Oity ., '0 6}'etersDurg 6 (tie) 66 Dale.. ;0' 28 Richland 0 o Mt,.i,..Verndn, 4~ 34 (J~isney 0 6 Pet;ersburg 48 ' 360~land City .20 J.2 Rockport 14 12- Mti.Vernon ,38 24 Richland 12 12', R9c!tport 19 36 Oannelton 12. 12 ", Owensville 36 38 .Ohr:tsn~y 12 o :reJ.:!.; City 42 Seventh Plaoe Eighth Place OAKLAND CITY•• ( 2-6"'0,) DAm •• (2-7-0) o Owensville 34 6 Cannelton 12 6 Mt. Vernon 38 o Tell City 61 o Rockport 24 o Owensville 66 20 Cannelton 36 13 Petersburg 45 6 Tell City 52 14 Richland 0 50 Dale 24 18 Chrisney 13 26 Petersburg 42 24 Oakland City 50 34 Richland 21 o Mt .. Vernon 49 18 Rockport 32 Tenth Place Ninth Place RICHLAND •• (0-9-0) GHRISNEY.o(1-7-0) o Mte Vernon 50 o }\it. Vernon 60 6 Rockport 25 6 Rockport 54 o Canne I ton 28 o Cannelton 34 6 ,Tell City 38 o Tell City 52 o Dale 14 13 Dale 18 6 Petersburg .48 13 Petersburg 46 12 Owensville 24 14 Richland 12 12 Chrisney 14 12 Owensville 38 21 Oakland City 34 ~ 1950 All-Conference football teamB. In the past the All-F. A. Co football teams had been pioked by the ooaohes of the member schools 0 At the fall meeting held in'Owensville, Conference coaohes decided to leave the seleotion of a mythioal AII-Conferenoe grid team to sportswriters of the various towns in the oonference •. The entire All-Conferenoe teams; FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Brenton, petersburg m Elder, Tell City Hoehn, Mt. Vernon McFadden., Mt. Vcarnon LG Callis, Owensville' '\!lIinohe11 11 Rockport Smith, Tell.Oity C Bartlett, Mt", Vernon Peters II Tell City., RG Hudson, Petersburg SchisJ.er~·..·.Mt •. Vernon,' RE! Smith, Mt. Vernon Coleman, Petersburg QB Lillipop,Rookport Carter, Petersburg Keitel, Mt. Vernon BB McCoy, Rockport . George, Tell City FB Hensley, Owensville 91 Honorable mention: Petersburg...... Carey, Sturgeon, Pearson; Rookport.....Lynch; Tell City--Kastjl Evrard, Hartz; Cennelton...... Pranzmang Winn, Kreig, Maxey, Meador; Mt. Vernon...... Jobnson, Carr, Temple; Owensville--Wilson; Oakland City-...DeJarnett; Dale--Hedges, E. Payne; Richland...... G.rant D Rudsll; Chrisney...... Newton g Hagen. n. THE': FALL JlI1Effi:TING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1950 Constitution revised and rQtatin~ football schedule proposed. On November 6, 1950, the regular fall meeting of the sohools in the Pooket Athletio Conference was held at the Owensville High Sohool. Sohool prinoipals held a varied business session during whioh a revised oonstitution was adopted. Coaches sugges.ted a rotating schedule start ing in 1951 which was presented to the principals who re ferred it to a committee to consider and report upon at the s,t:lring meeting. I'll. THE SECOND BASKETBALL SE,ASON...... 1950-51 !!!! City wins. Tell City won undisputed claim to the basketball title as a resu.lt of' 'a record of eight wins and no defeats against Conferen.oe competition.. The Marks 1gen were led by their star guard, Mr. Burke Scott, who later starred at Indiana University. Mt. Vernon was ru.nner-up with five wins and one defeat; that lone loss coming at the hands of the Tell City champions. The final standine; .2f. 1950-1951 basketball., WON LOST PERCENTAGE Tell City 8 0 1.000 Mt. Vernon 5 1 .833 '* Petersbu.rg 4 1 .800 * Chrisney 2 1 e667 Cannelton 4 3 .571 Owensville 3 3 .500 Richland 3 4 .429 Rockport 3 5 .375 Oakland City o 6 .. 000 Dale o 8 .000 '* Not eligible f.or the championship becau.se of not playing the requ.ired number of games, six. Complete scores of ill 1950-1951 basketball games. Champion Second Place , TELL CITY... (8-0) lVlT.. VERNON ... (5-1 ) 55 Dale 43 60 Cannelton 40 63 Richland 55 57 Dale 47 67 Cannelton 40 48 Tell City 78 53 Owensvllle 46 46 Rockport 42 78 Mt. Vernon 48 60 Owensville 36 64 Oakland City 37 70 Oakland City 53 56 Petersburg 54 49 Rockport 41 Fo.urth Place Third Place CANNEETON ... (4-3) PETERSBURG.... (4-1) 40 Mt .. Vernon 60 r 81 Cannelton 59 46 Rockport 42 I 94 Oakland City 42 40 Tell City 67 I 67 Dale 42 47 Dale 40 48 Rockport 35 53 Owensville 43 I 54 Teil Citt 56 59 :f/etersburg 8], 64 Richland 48 Sixth Place Fifth Place RI c11LAND .. e ( 3-4)' OWENS VIm ... ( 3-3) 40 Rockport 41 57 Richland 47 47 Owensville 57 46 TellCi.ty 53 55 Chrisney 40 43 Cannelton 53 35 Dale 34 46 Dale 41 48 Cannelton 64 57 Oakland City ,47 55 Tell City 63 36 Mt.· Vernon. 60 43 Oakland City 39 : : 93 Seventh Place ROCKPORT •• (3-5) Eighth Place 41 Richland 40 OAI~ CITY •• (O-B) 42 Cannelton 46 50 Rockport 68 68 Oakland City 50 42 Petersburg 64 42 Mt.. Vernon 46· 47 Owensville 57 31 Chrisney 33 37 Tell City 64 73 Dale 42 39 Richland 43 35 Petersburg 48 53 Mt. Vernon 70 41 Tell City 49 Ninth Place DArn •• (0-8) 43 Tell City 55 47 Mt. Vernon 57 40 Cannelton 47 34 Richland 35 42 Rockport 73 41 Owensville 46 42 Petersburg 67 47 Chrisney 48 All-Conference basketball team in 1950-1951. This team was seleoted by theConferenoe basketball ooacheso No player reoeived unanimous seleotion. Mr. Lechner and Mr. Scott reoeived nine out of a possible ten votes~ and Mr. Bartlett reoeived eight. No honorable mention oategory was listed. . FIRST TEAM POSITION SECOND TEAM Allen Lechner~ Tell City F Dennin Shepart, Chrisney Don Sarver, Riohland Jack Hardin~ Oakland City F Carl Gordon, Rockport Ken Bartlett ~Mt. Vernon C Marshall WYahl, Richland Byron Brenton~ Petersburg G Warren Stevens, Dale BU1"ke Scott, Tell City G Roy Hens Iey ~ Owens ville IV. TEE THIRD ANNUAL FRE:SHM.AN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Second crownto.Mt. VeI'non~ By defeating four .con, ference foea, Mt. Vernon's freshmen. won their second Po. A. C. 94' fresbnlan tournament which was held at the Mt 0 Vernon High School gym on January 4 and 6, 1951. The complete tourney resUlts: Richland Rockport 20 Rockport Oakland City 50 Cannelton 19 Chrisney 27 Tell City 39 Mr. VERNON Tell City 35 Champion Dale 28 MtG Vernon, 38 MtG Vernon 45 Mt. Vernon 53 ,I I I Owensville 30 Mt. Vernon 42 Petersburg 33Petersburg 21 V. TE& SPRING :MImTING OF TE& CONFERENCE IN 1951 Election .2f. officers. In a meeting held at Oakland City on April 2, 1951, new officers were elected. Mr. Ken neth F~erbach, Chrisney principal, was elected president; Mr. Robert Harris, Richland principal, vice-president; and I Mr. JohnH1l1, Rockport principal, secretary-treasurer. It I I, was definitely decided to adopt a rotating football schedule r for 1952 and tie games would continue to count one-half game I. I f won and one-half game lost in the standings 0 I j: I I VI. THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MEmT ~ eighth .successive title !2 Petersburg. On. April '2i, 19§1, at Petersburg, the Indians captured their eighth 95' Conference track and field title in successione The meet was staged in a steady downpour of rain which virtually eliminated all chances for any new recordse Petersburg scored a total of fifty~seven points while Mt. Ve~non, only other Conference member to win a championship, finished second with thirty-nine and one-third points. Tell City was third with thirty-six points, and Cannelton finished f ou.rth with thirty...twoand two-thirds points. Then cams Oakland City with nine, Owensville with seven, and- Chrisney with sixo r(' { I, j; f OHAPTER }WI I.··· I THE F OURT:EENTH YEAR OF TEE OONFERENCE ~ring 1 the 1950-1951 season new ohampions were crown- I ed in eaoh sport. Mt. Vernon and Tell Oity shared the foot ... . ball ohampionship. Rookport beoame the new basketball cham- pion and also won the freshman basketball tourney. After eight years of dominanoe by Petersburg, Mt. Vernon captured I I" the Oonference track and field meet. ! I i I. TEE FOURTEENTH FOOTBALL SEASON.....1951 I Mt. Vernon and Tell Oity declared oo-champions. In I a very spirited season Mt. Vernon and Tell Oity emerged as I co-ohampions with identical reoords of eight wins and one ! loss. Mt. Vernon was surprised at Oannelton but later ad ministered Tell Oityts only defeat, 30-22, at Mt. Vernono :. I :-'( i-I, 1951 ~. 11 The final standing 2f ,IJ wrON LOST TIED PERCENTAGE . I I ,NIt,e ",Vernon 8 1 0 .889 I I 8 1 0 .889 , I. '1'el10ity' :I '* C,@uelton 6i :at 1 .750 . -rl-'; ~()Clt~ort 6 :3 0 .667 I l ~F, OWen.fl;Vi~le 5 4: 0 .556 Petersburg' 4: 5 0 .444 * Dale; ," ., .,." 3l si 1 .375 ",."Oak,+and •. ''.' 0:1. tl :3 6 0 .333 *#\ChJ:ais~ey " I 8 0 .111 . ,RicJ:l1tmCl'" o 9 0 ,.000 ~* ,TleigSllle's';'"oIle-half, game won, anClone-half game los t <> '*i.\,',p\vEn:lsviIle won 1-0 forf'~:tt fxa:9mQ~lsney. 0 1 i 97 Complete scores .2! ill games !!!. ~. Co-Champion Co-Champion Ml'., VERNON •• (8-1-0) TELL. CITY .. Plaee , ElghthPlace ,DAlB•• (~...5i"'1) OAKLAND CITY•• (3...6-0) 14 Cannelton 14 (tie) 8 Owensville 6 6 Tell City 32 6 Mt. Vernon 48 6 Owensville 12 12 Rockport 29 20 Peters'burg 36 14 Cannelton 15 54 Richland 12 i 8 TellC!ty '" 32 48 Chrisney 6 '7 Dale 42 42 Oa.k~andCity '7 8 Petersburg 44 40 ,J!4'1;~:\Ternon ", 7§ <38 Hiohland '," , 6' 6 ,. Rockport ", 30 '36 Chrisney '7 , .. } 98 Ninth·Plaoe Tenth Place CHRISNEY•• (1-8-0) RICHLAND •• (O-9-0) r o Mt. Vernon 51 12 Mt. Vernon 51 1/ 20 Rockport 30 20 Rockport 44 I 20 Cannelton 38 6 Cmnelton 32 20 Tell City 44 o Tell City 49 6 Dale 48 12; Dale 54 12 Petersburg 46 8 Petersburg 37 20 Richland 6 6 Owensville 32 '7 Chrisney 36 6 Chrisney 20 o Owensville 1 (forf.) IS Oakland City 38 --The 1951 AlI....Conference footbal.l teams /l} The Board of Dlrectors.returned the task of selecting the P. Ao C. All-Oonference football team to the coaches it Five boys were 'Unanimous choices of. the coaches: Maxey 9 Cannelton,; Sprinkle ~. Owensville; Kreager and George ~ Tell Oity; and. Johnson!) Mt. Vernon. The entire AII-Conferenoe teams: FIRST. TEAM SECOND TEAM Roy Maxey,. Cannelton IE Jervis Kast, Tell City Dean ~tesides, Mt.Vernon LG John Anderson, Owensville JackSpr1nkle, Owensville 0 Dave Poehle1n~ Tell 01t1 Ed Kreager g Tell City RG Bob Hyde, Cannelton Dennis ,Kercher, Mt. Vernon BE Bill Boultinghouse, Rockport Jim :Blythe, .Rockport Q,BOsoar. Hahn, Mt. Vernon Johnny-Johnson, Jit. Vernon HB John :Enlow. Rockport Bob George$ 're.ll Ca.t7 FBBillHumston" Mt. Vernon Honorable· Mention: Mt.Verp.on...... Wl1de 11 Stinson.!} Hart... mann; TellCity-...Voegelrnan" SchroederJj1rl"eeman; Cannelton..."" Me ador ~Norman Schroeder, Powers; Rockport-""et ze1, Den.... stortf', Martin; Dale...·HedgesJ) Gx>eunhoete.r" 1Ihltten; Peters o'Qrg.....Oox,Chaniberlain, Smith, Barker; Oakland Oity...8keltolla DeJarnett",.MualIl,Barnard; Owensvil1e...""B-ush" G. Garrett" Kit VIllson; Olnr:tsney~-c.Vleber, W• .tiagan" M. Powers, L. Weber; Ri.chland...... D••... Rothg We s t ~1Vrlght .. . .,'"" : .. \. ' .. , Jfmaetlilg.w1.tlJ.routiIle.bus:tness.on·November Sd) ].9519theregu,lar.f'~llmee.tingof the schools in the Pooket 99 Athletic Conference was held at Dale. Ro~tina business was transacted. lit. Vernon and Tell City ware declared co champions of football fOJJ 1951. Oakland C1 ty was chosen u the site for the freshman basketball tourney to be held on January:; and 5, 1952. The date for the Conference track meet was set at May 3 D 1952. and Pet&rsbnrg was to be the host school• . III.TBE 'THIRD BASKETBALL SEASON...... l951...1952 Tit.le ·12. Rockport. Coach Bill Dauby's Rockport Zebras won the 1951-1952 basketball crown by compiling a record of siX wins and two losses. Owensville was runner~ up with a record of five. wins and two defeats. This was Rockportts first taste. of Oonferenceglory in any sport. ~ tinal Oonferenoe standins 21'.1951-1952 basketballll> WON LOST PERCENTArequired number of games~six• .Compl·.ete.ac.or.es .£!' ill1951-1952.'basketball games • ',) ., , -J ') ): .) • ~.;f.~ ') :>' ') ;;l., ) :>_ :0-)" ") ):>:> ;> ;;> . ~ .l·• .J J-:>1 .~ ~ ")" ") ) . .) ',' -0' ;';> 'J, ..- ' ") ~ ~~_:~)~:~ /~:> ;::;J~~:>JJ , :;I -' ?'J ~ . .),,:> '.l oJ ) -j J:J)-"))J '} ;:I.-J ., J -J 'J I . ;'1- i! J 100 Champion Second Place ROCKPORT •• (6...2) O'IENSVILIE ~I.l (5....2) 50 Oannelton 48 67 Richland 55 46 Richland 45 47 Tell City 68 47 Mt. Vernon 56 59 Cannelton 47 58 Chrisney 41 41 Dale 37 46 Dale 54 51 Oakland C1ty 48 86 Pe tersbUI'g 30 37 Mt. Vernon 57 44 Oakland Oity 46 66 Petersburg 40 42 Tell Oity 39 Thircl Plao~ Tie Third Place Tie Me. vERNON (0 • ( 4....2 ) OAKLAND CITY (0 • ( 4-2) 37 Dale 49 84 Petersburg 37 45 Tell City 41 48 Owens vilIe 51 56 Rockport 47 43 Tell Oity 42 57- OWensville 37 46 Rockport 44 52 Oakland City 51 51 Mt. Vernon 52 45 Cannelton 57 63 Richland 54 Fifth Place .. DAm•• (4-4 ) Sixth Place 44 Tell City 41 TELL CITY•• (3-4 ) 49 Mt. Vernon 37 41 Dale 44 43 Cannelton 41 64 Richland 39 ' 59 Richland 38 57 Cannelton 41 54 Rockport 46 58 Owensville 47 37 Owensville 41 41 Mt. Vernon 45 52 PetersbUI' g 44 42 Oakland C1 ty 43 ~6 Chrisney 48 39 Rockport 42 Seventh Place CANNELTON~• (3...5) Eighth Place 48 Rockport 50 PETERSBURG... (0-6) 41 Tell City 57 45 Cannelton 50 41 Dale 43 37' Oakland City 84 47 Owensville 59 30 Rockport 85 50 Petersburg 45 44 Dale 52 41, Chrisney 43 35 Chrisney 6] S8,Richland 62 40 Owensville 66 57 Mt.Vernon 45 Ninth Place 'RIC1ffiAND••(0-7) . Unplaced '..55 ..·.Oviensvil1e 67 CHRISNEY... (4-1 ) ," ·· •. 39 .Tel1. 0ity . .... 64 54 Richland 30 45 . Rockport 46 41 Rockport 58 i !~ 30Chrisriey 54: .. 4~ Cannelton 41 I'J? 38 . Da1.e ..•.. .•.. . 59· 61. Petersburg 35 i I: !l~.' 62 Oarilieiton 68 48 Dale 46 ;",§r" 54 Oakland City 63 r,' ~ i!, II· J, 1 . 101 The 1951-1952 All-Conference basketball team. The all-star team was chosen by the coaches of the Conference teams. An unusual circums tance was that not one member of the Conference champion, Rockport, or the runner~up team, OWensville, was selected to a first-team positiono All teams of the Conference this year had outstanding individual performers. The comple te teams: FIRST TEAM POSITION SECOND TEAM George, Tell City F BOUltinghouse, Rockport Sarver, Richland Flee, Rockport Stephans, Dale C Sprinkle, Owensville Ayer, Chrisney G Chenault, Cannelton Johnson, Mt. Vernon G Wirth, Oakland City Honorable Mention: Maxey, Cannelton; Flicklin, Fetersburg; Hagan, Chrisney; Burkhart, Richland; Hedges, Dale; Schreiber, Tell City; Garrett, Owensville; Aydelotte, Oakland City; Mercker, Petersburg; and Stinsong Mt. Vernon. IV. TH& FOURTH ANNUAL FRBSHMAN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Championship to Rockport. Under Coach Paul Dunker Rockportts freshmen won the fourth annual Conference fresh- man basketball tourney at Oakland ~ity on January 3 and 5, 19520 ~D_a_l_e~•. ~~------14T12~'Owensville 41 Owens ville . Owensville 30 ~T.;..e1;;;;.;1~C;..;;i;...:ti.KY ---;:32··~34Te 11 Oi t:o- 28 Hichland - &l.. ROCKPORT Chrisney 19 31 Ohampion g:::f~o~ity i~Oe.kland City 32 Rockport ·Mt. Vernon 27 36 102 V. TIm SPRING MEETING OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1952 Eleotion ~ officers. In a meeting held at Chrisney on April 7, 1952, new officers were elected. Mr. John Hill, Rockport principal, was elected president; Mr. Theodore Woolsey, Dale principal, vice-president; and Mr. Marlin E. Kell, Oakland City prinoipal, secretary-treasurer. Status of Tell City. The Board of Direotors dis oussed the status of Tell City as a P. Ao C. member. Tell City had indicated withdrawing from the P. A. Co at the end of the 1952-1953 school year and joining the Southern Indi ana Athletic Conference. According to the constitution the six PoA. C. basketball games that Tell City would be play ing would make them eligible for the championship. How ever, Tell City and Petersburg would not be eligible for" the football championship because of Section I of the by laws, whioh states that each school must participate in a contest with each member school in good standing to be eli gible for the conference championship.42 Exchange of lists of officials. The Board of Di rectors re-emphasized that all schools must observe the Con ferencerule by exchanging lists of approved officials which 42 "Minutes of the Pocket Athletic Conference Secre taries, chrisney, Indiana, January 9, 1954," Pit 43. I' 103 are to be used for the mutual selection of officials for all sports.43 VI I> T~ TWbEIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK AND FIELD MEET ! victory ~ Mt. Vernon. Mt. Vernonts Wildcats dominated the twelfth annual track and field meet held at Petersburg on May 3, 1952, by scoring eighty-two and five sixths points. In sweeping to their victory the WIldcats captured all four trophies in the' meet, broke two records," automatically established a third record, and easily out scored runner-up Petersburg who had forty-two and one~third points. Other scores were Oakland City, thirty-five and five-sixths; Cannelton, twenty-five; and Owensville, two. Four records set. Mr. Don Foster stepped the high hurdles in :15.5 to break a :16.2 record, and Fosterts time of:22.2 in the low hUl'd1es, which distance was reduced to 180-yards this season, automatically became a record. Mr. Terry Barker, Petersburg, ran the 440-yard dash in :53.2 for anew record. The Mt. Vernon 880-yard relay team of Mr. George Hurley, Mr. Bob Martin, Mr .. Bob Wade, and Mro Foster ran the event in 1:38.7 to clip one-tenth of a second off Petersburg's former record set in 1941. I~t. Vernon's win ended a string of eight consecutive Petersburg championships. 43 "Minutes of the .Pock~t Athletic Conference Secre 'taries, Chrisney" Indiana, January 9, 1954," p. 440 CHAPTER XVII THE FIFTEENTH 'YEAR OF TEE CONFERENCE During the 1952-1953 season the Conference remained a closed organization with ten members but this year mark ed the final season for Tell City, a charter member. Tell Cith had accepted an invitation to join the S. Ie A. Co Dale captured its second football title. Tell City, eligible for the basketball title, won that championship, and Rock port repeated in the Conference freshman basketball tourna ment. Mt. Vernon showed power in winning its second suc cessive track and field championshipe Io THE FIFTEENTH FOOTBALL SEASON--1952 Dale wins !!! second football title. Daleta Aces, coached by Mr. Walter "Dutch" Bailey, captured its second championship in Conference history. Tell City compiled a better season record but did not play Conference foe, Peters burg; hence, was not eligible for the Conference champion ship. RoCkport was a close runner-up with only two defeatso Dale waS led by a hard-charging fullback» Mr" John Hedges f} who set a new scoring record of 196 points in nine games 0 ~ final s t andin8 of 1952 ~. WON LOST TIED PERCENTACE ~} Tell City 7t 1 .938 Dale 72 11 1 .833 Rockport 7 2 o 0778 * Petersb~rg 6 2 o .750 Mt" Vernon 6 3 o .667 Oakl and City 3i 5;t 1 .389 Owens ville 3 6 o 0333 Cannelton 21- 6i 1 .278 Richland 1 8 o 0111 Chrisney 0 9 o 0000 * Not eligible for the championship. Complete scores of all games in 1952e Cham~ion . Second Place D.A.rn .... ( 72 -1i"-1 ) ROCKPORT •• (7-2-0) 18 Rockport 28 28 Dale 18 36 Cannelton 14 24 Petersburg 6 22 Tell City 22 (tie) 40 Richland 18 38 Owensville 20 49 Chrisney 14 32 Petersb~rg 6 28 Oakland City 0 54 Richland 19 6 Mt. Vernon 8 70 Clwisney 6 16 Owensville 6 30 Oakland Oity 13 32 Cannelton 7 31 Mt. Vernon 15 6 Tell City 13 Third Place Fo~rth Place Mr. VERNON .... (6...3-0) OAKLAND CITy.... (~ ...5;t...l) 50' Richland 12 42 Chrisney 13 30 Chrisney 21 26 Owensville 6 26 Oakland Oity 18 18 Mt. Vernon 26 46 Owensville 13 o Rockport 28 8 Rockport 6 6 Cannelton 6 (tie) 38 0annelton 14 12 'Tell City 30 8 Tell Oity 60 . 13 Dale 30 15 Dale 31 6 Petersburg ,8 16 Petersb~rg 21 33 Richland 7 Fifth Place Sixth Place OWENSVILlE .... (3..6...0) CANNELTON ... (21a-6i-l) 13 Tell Oity 33 25 'Tell City 38 6 Oakland Gity 26 14 Dale 36 20 Dale 38 12 Petersb~g 14 13 Mto Vernon 46 29 Richland 12 14 PeterBb~rg 16 39 Chrisney 13 6 Rockport· 16 6 Oakland City 6 (tie) 4.0 Richland 19 14 Mto Vernon 38 26 Oannelton 6 7 Rockport 32 39 Chrisney 7 6 Owensville 26 106' Seventh Plaoe Eighth PIaoe RICHLAND •• (1-8-0) CBRISNEY •• (0-9-0) 12 Mt. Vernon 50 13 Oakland City 42 18 Rockport 40 21 Mt. Vernon 30 12 Cannelton 29 14 Rookport 49 6 Tell City 34 13 Cannelton 39 19 Dale 54 26 Tell City 62 o Petersburg 51 6 Dale 70 19 Owensville 40 18 Petersburg 49 44 Chrisney 19 19 Riohland 44 '7 Oakland City 33 '7 Pwensville 39 Unplaoed Unplaced TELL CITY •• (7i--i-l) FETERSBURG •• (6-2-0) 38 Cannelton 25 6 Rockport 24 33 Owensville 13 14 Cannelton 12 22 Dale' 22 (tie) 6 Dale 3~ 34 Richland 6 16 Owensville 14 62 Chrisney 26 51 Richland 0 30 Oakland City 12 49 Chrisney 18 60 Mt$ Vernon 8 8 Oakland City 6 13 Rockport 6 21 Mt. Vernon 16 The ~ All-Conferenoe football teams. JUdged as one of the best and moat representative all-Po Ao Co teams in history, the Conferenoe coaches named this yearls teamse Mr. John Hedges, Dale, was highly acclaimed by all coaches in the' Conference It The complete all-star teams: FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Falls, OaklandOity McKeehan, Rockport IE ?isher, Tell City. Roos, Dale LG Mason, Oakland City Higginbottom, Mt. Vernon C Neyenhaus, Tell City Pierce, Rockport RG Swain, Cannelton Jolly, Rockport McClellan, Petersburg HE LeRoy, Dale George" Tell City QB Meador, Cannelton Enlow, Rockport liB Wade, Mt. Vernon 'Hedges, Dale FB Garrett, Owensville Honorable Mention: Oakland City.... -B. Marshall; Can .... nelton--Shores; Petersburg-...Dowden,Leighty, Dyer; Rockport .... .st, Mottler; Dale--Sergesketter; Mt. Vernon--Hurley; Owens ville--M. Ga.rrett~ Tell City...... Mayf'ield, Kuster, Thomas •. 107 II. THREE FALL ~ETINGS OF TEE CONFERENCE IN 1952 Problem of Conference membership. In a meeting held in Cannelton on August 25, 1952, a lengthy discussion was held concerning the wi thdrawal of Tell City from membership» and names of numerous schools were presented as possible candidates for membership. The secretary was directed to write some of the schools mentioned and inform them of the vacancy. AlSO, he was to inquire, whether they might be in'" terested in becoming Conference members. At Richland on November 3, 1952, the secretary reported that Loogootee» French ~ck, and Dubois were interested but that football faoilities were lacking. It was reported that Vincennes Central Catholic was not interested. In a special meeting at Oakland City on December 1, 1952, representatives from Oakland City, Owensville, eetersburg, Richland, and Rock port were present. Representatives from Cannelton, DaleJ' and Mt. Vernon were unable to attend due to a snow blizzard and almost impassable roads. The necessity for this meet- ing arose from the fact that both Chrisney and Tell City were withdrawing from the Conference, and none of the schools that were contacted as pass iblenew members would agree te immediate membership. After considerable disoussion and ~x... ,perimentatlon, a football schedule for 1953 was approved and adopted. 108 III" TH8 FOURTH BASKJ:l:TBALL SEASON...... 1952...l953 Title ~ Tall Oity_ Coach Bob Brook's Tell City Marksmen won the basketball championship losing only to Oakland City in six Oonferenoe games. This marked Tell Oityfs final season against Pe A. O•. competitiono Rockport was runner-up with an impressive six won and two lost record. The final standing 2! 1952-1953 basketball. WON LOOT PERCENTAGE Tell Oity 5 I .833 Rockport 6 2 .750 Oakland City 5 2 .714 Mt. Vernon 4 2 0667 Dale 5 4 .556 Cannelton 4 4 .500 Petersburg 3 3 0500 Chrisney I 3 0250 Owensville I 5 0157 Richland o 8 0000 Complete scores of ~ 1952-1953 basketball games. Second Place Champion ROCKPORT •• (6-2) TELL CITY •• (5...1 ) 74 Richland 36 50 Dale 38 56 Mt. Vernon 37 81 Richland 47 60 Chrisney 59 59 Cannelton 51 56 Dale 42 68 Mt. Vernon 60 69 Cannelton 63 65 Oakland City 82 57 Petersburg. 47 54 Rockport 50 41 Oakland City 44 50 Tell Oity 54 Third. Place OAKLAND CITY •• (5-2) Fourth PIace 78 Petersburg 66 lVJ.T. VERNON •• (4...2) . ·57 Owensville 50 61 Dale 42 43 Dale 47 60 Tell City 68 82 Tell City 65 37 Rockport 56 44 Rockport 41 56 Owensville 51 55 Mt. Vernon 64 64 Oakland City 55 65 Richland 50 79 Cannelton 63 109 Fifth Place DArn •• (5...4) Sixth PIace 38 Tell City 50 CANNELTON •• (4-4 ) 42 Mt. Vernon 61 51 Tell City 59 43 Cannelton 55 40 Petersburg 35 64 Richland 40 53 Dale 43 42 Rockport 56 67 Owensville 49 51 Owensville 42 55 Ohrisney 42 47 Oakland City 43 65 Rockport 69 44 Petersburg 40 54 Richland 43 56 Chrisney 53 63" Mt. Vernon 79 Seventh Place PETERSBURG•• (5-3) Eighth PIace 55 Cannelton 40 CHRISNEY... (1...3) 66 Oakland City 78 59 Rockport 60 47 Rockport 57 42 Cannelton 55 40 Dale 44 58 Richland 55 45 Richland 39 53 Dale 56 56 Owensville 55 Tenth Place Ninth Place RIOHLAND •• (0-8) ~~NSVILLE•• (1...5) 37 Owensville 66 66 Richland 37 47 Tell City 81 49 Cannelton 67 36 Rockport 74 42 Dale 51 40 Dale 64 50 Oakland City 57 55 Chrisney 58 51 Mt.. Vern on 56 43 Cannelton 54 i 55 Petersburg 56 39 Petersburg 45 I 50 Oakland City 65 I The 1952-1953 All-Conference basketball teams G In a meetiI'lgu~attendedby r Tell City" the coaches selected the ! I annual all-star basketball teams. No honorable mention I I gro'Up was named. The complete teams: J i FIRST TEAM POSITION SEOOND TEAM Ficklin" Petersburg F Gruenhoeffer, Dale Chennault" Cannelton F Parke" Oakland Oi ty Falls, Oakland City C Thompson, Mt. Vernon Garrett, Owensville G Pierce, Rockport Hedges, Dale G Johnson" Mt. Vernon , J 110' J I { [ IV. THE: FIFTH ANNUAL FRESHMAN BASRETBALL TOURNAMENT ! 1 i Repeat ~ Rockport. Rockportts freshmen repeated in I oapturing the 1953 freshman basketball tourney held in Rock~ port. Coach Paul Du.nkerts lanky team was led by Mr. Larry Erwin, who led the scoring with forty-five points in three games. The complete tournament results: Tell City 39 Tell City 27 Petersburg 51 Chrisney 23 Pe ters burg 35 ROCKPORT Mt. Vernon 45Mt Vernon 22 Champion Oakland City 26 • Rockport 39 Rockport 44 I Cannelton 36Rockport 40 I I I V. THE SPRING MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE IN 1953 I I I Election 2£ officers. In a meeting held at Petera I burg on April 6, 1953, new officers were elected. Mr. Loren i !; i Lanman, Cannelton principal, was elected president; Mr. Frank Dick, Owensville principal, vice-president; and Mr. ,1'-I Robert Harris, Richland principal, secretary-treasurer. Some I I discussion was held on possible new members for the Confer f ,I ence and also the possibility of Conference member schools going into eleven-man football. Opinion was, however, that t; eleven-man football for most of the Conference schools was . out 'of the question• . I11 I' ;1: :I 11II I Ii 101' !'i\ 111 VI. TEE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK MlmT Another win for Mt. Vernono Coach Jinl Baxter's Mto Vernon track and field team captured ita second straight Conference championship held at Mt. Vernonts Athletic Park on May 1, 1953. The final s cores were: Mt. Vernon, seventy; Oakland City, forty; Cannelton, thirty-eight and one-half; Petersburg, thirty-three and one-half; Richland, four and one-half; and Owensville, one-half. Five ~ records. Five Conference records were broken by the victorious Wildcats, including the oldest one on record. Mr .. George Hurley ran a sensational 2:05.8 in the 880-yard run to erase the old record of 2:08.5, set by Rockportts great athlete, John Bunner, in 1939, the first year the Po A.. C. meet was held. Mr. Don Foster set new· records in the high hurdles with :14.8 and the 100-yard dash in :10.30 Foster held the high hurdles record of :15.5, set in 1952, and the old record in the. 100-yard dash was set by Mr. Warren Rueger, Mt. Vernon, in 1941 and tied by Mr. Jack Yagg!, Cannelton, in 1950; the former record being :10.4. ·Mr. Bob Martin, Mt. Vernon, ran the l80-yard low hurdles in :22.. 0 to shatter Mr .. Foster=s time of ;22.2, set in 19520 The Mt. Vernon 880-yard relay team of Mr .. Foster, Mr .. Martin, Mr .. Hurley, and Mr. Aby Mason set a new record of 1:36.6 to . break the old record of 1:38.7, set in 1952 by Mr. Hurley, lVIr.Martin, Mr .. Foster, and Mr. Bob Jiads .. C.HAPTER XVIII TEE SIXTEENTH YEAR OF T:B.E CONFERENCE During the 1953-1954 season the Pocket Athletic Con ference consisted of eight members. Tell City and Chrisney had withdrawn at the close of the previous Season. Oakland City captured its first football crown in Conference history. Rockport and Owensville shared the basketball championship, and Dale won the freshman basketball tourney held at Daleo Mt .. Vernon's well-balanced track and field team won its third consecutive title after years of dominance by the Petersburg Indians. Io THE: SIXTEENTH FOOTBALL SEASON--l953 First title t2!: Oakland CitYo Oakland City's Acorns, coached by Mr. Delbert Dialer, went through an undefeated season'to win its first Conference championship, although Owensville held the winners to an 8-8 tie.. In sweeping to the title the Acorns presented a well-coordinated ground and air attack, built around last year's AII-Oonference end, now converted toa back, Mr .. Dick Falls .. Ooach Paul Dunker t s Rockport ,Zebras finished second in the Conference standings, losing only to the champion Oakland 0ity squad, 18-140 The final standing of 1953 footballo WON LOST TIED PERCENTAag Oakland City 5i i 1 0928 Rockport 6 1 o 0857 Mto Vernon 5 2 o 0714 Canne 1 ton 3 . 4 o 0429 Petersburg 3 4: o 0429 Owensville 2~ 4~ I 0357 Dale 2 5 o 0286 Richla.nd 0 7 o 0000 Complete scores of all games in ~o Champion '" Second Place OAKLAND CITY. 0 (6-l-~-1) ROCKPORT •• (6-1-0) . 22 Cannelton 0 3Q Dale 0 8 Owensville 8 (tie) 18 Cannelton 0 16 Mt. Vernon 6 12 Petersburg 6 18 Rockport 14 14 Oakland City 18 25 Petersburg 13 34 Richland 6 22 Dale 12 22 Owensville 16 28 Richland 6 12 Mt o Vernon 8 Third Place Fourth Place Tie MT 0 VERNON •• (5-2-0) CANNELTON •• (3-4-0) 18 Petersburg 6 o Oakland City 22 6 Oakland City 16 o Rockport 18 20 Dale 14 32 Richland 2 58 Richland 0 14 Petersburg 19 48 Owensville 7 37 Owensville 26 28 Cannelton 6 6 Mto Vernon 28 8 Rockport 12 26 Dale 13 Fourth Place Tie Sixth Place PETERSBURG•• (3-4-0) OVlBNS VILlE 0 • (2-4-1) 6 Mt. Vernon 18 8 Oakland City 8 (tie) 6 Rockport 12 28 Dale 20 19 Cannelton 14 39 'Richland 12 13 Oakland City 25 26 Cannelton 37 12 Dale 21 7 Mt. Vernon 48 37 Richland 6 16 Rockport 22 18 Owensville 14 14 -Petersburg 18 114 Seventh Place Eighth Place , .-I DALE •• (2-6-0) RIOHLAND •• (O-7-0) o Rockport 30 19 Dale 26 26 Richland 19 2 Cannelton 32 20 Owensville 28 12 Owensville 39 14 Mt. Vernon 20 o Mt. Vernon 58 21 Petersburg 12 6 Rockport 34 12 Oakland City 22 6 Petersburg 37 13 Cannelton 26 6 Oakland City 28 The 1953 All-Conference football teams 0 The coaches of the Oonference teams again made the selection of the all- P. A. 00 teams. Mr. John Jolly" Rockport,!) and:Mr. Ohester Garrett, Owensville, were unanimous selections. Oakland Oity, the Conference champion, placed two boys on the first team. The complete all-star teams: FIRST TEAM SEOOND TEAM John Jolly, Rockport IE Monte McKeehan, Rockport John Sergesketter, Dale LG Harry Lain, Cannelton Mike Dickey, Oakland City 0 Bob Dowden, Petersburg Bill Northerner, Cannelton RG Jerry Cantrell, Oakland City Bud Dyer, Petersburg . HE Jerry Mayo, Richland Fred Beauchamp, Oakland City QB Fred Crews, Dale Jerry Denstorff p Rockport HE Roger Vogel Rockport Bob Martinp Mt e Vernon ' i ,) Chester Garrett, Owensville FB Don Falls, Oakland Oity ! Honorable Mention: Oannelton--Norman Lain, Bill Farquhan; Rockport--Tom Martin, Bill Golden; Richland--Joe Partridge, Clifford Wilson; Owensville--John Braselton, Dan Newton; Petersburg--JoeEvans, Juhior Culver; Dale--Jack Truelove; Mt. Vernon--Bill Tomlinson, Harry Wells; Oakland City, Lee Summers, Aaron Mason. II. TWO FALL MEETINGS OF Tm CONFERENCE IN 1953 Meetlngsof routine business. In a meeting held at Rockport on AUgust 24, 1953, routine business was conducted. Discussion was continued on Conference membership. In the event that the sama two schools engage in more than one con-j test, it was agreed that only the first one would count in the Conference percentage.44 The possibility of eleven-man football for the Conference was disoussed again. At Mt. Vernon on November 2, 1953, the second fall meeting was convened. Otwell and Ferdinand was mentioned as being in- teres ted in membership in the Pocket Athletic Conferenoe in the near future. It was voted that an invitation be given to Ferdinand, Otwell, Odon, tinslpw, Ft .. Branch, and any other interested school to bring their boys to visit Con ference football games during 1954 as guests of the host school.. At this meeting the coaches were directed to or ganize with a chairman and secretary and to present all problems to the Board of Directors for consideration. III. THE FIFTH BASKETBALL SEASON--1953...1954 Oo-champions result.. Rockport and Owensville were declared co-champions as a result of identical records of five wins and one defeat in Oonference competition.. Un- fortunately these two teams did not play each other during the 1953-1954 basketball season. 44nConatitution and By-Laws. of the Pocket Athletic Oonferenoe, Rockport, May 22, 1954," po 3. I ,I I I' I, 116 ' I'i', , I' The final standing 2f 1953-1954 basketball. i'" \i l I WON LOST PERCENTAGtJ Rockport 5 1 .833 OWensville 5 1 .833 I Dale 5 2 .714 Oakland City 4 2 .667 i Petersburg 2 4 .333 Cannelton 2 4 .333 I Mt. Vernon 1 4 .200 I Richland o 6 .000 Complete scores ~ !!! 1953-l9~ basketball games. Co-Champion Co-Champion I ROCKPORT ... (5-1) Oll\BNSVIIJE .... (5-1) 54 Richland 40 63 Richland 21 II, 60 Mt. Vernon 48 57 Cannelton 39 56 Dale 57 39 Dale 43 I 49 Petersbu.rg 28 57 Oakland City 53 76 Cannelton 47 63 Mt. Vernon 61 48 Oakland City 45 53 Petersburg 46 I Third Place Fo'Urth Place I DAlE •• (5-2) OAKLAND CITY•• (4-2) i 59 . Mt .. Vernon 57 59 Petersburg 52 65 Cannelton 48 53 Owensville 57 1 61 Richland 40 67 Dale 65 I 57 Rockport 56 45 Rockport 48 43 Owensville 59 79 Mt. Vernon 56 65 ' Oakland City 67 86 Richland 63 58 Petersbu.rg 62 Fifth Place Tie Fifth Flace Tie PETERSBURG... (2-4) OANNELTON •• (2-4 ) 40 Cannelton 49 49 Petersburg 40 28 Rockport 49 48 Dale 65 52 Oakland City 59 39 Owensville 57 62 Dale 58 47 Rockport 76 I 59 Riohland 45 54 Richland 51 I 46 Owensville 53 46 NIt. Vernon 63 ! j Eighth PIaoe I, ' Seventh Place RICHLAND .... ( 0...6) i :Mr.. VERN ON ••{1-4 ) 21 OWensville 63 57 Dale 59 40 Rockport 54 I~ 48 Rockport 60 40 Dale 61 61 Owensville 63 51 . Cannelton 54 ,Iii 56 Oakland Oity 79 45 Petersburg 59 . i ' 63 Cannelton '46 63 Oakland Oity 86 I'§ I \ ; ti' , I J 11'7 . l '; i ( The 1953-1954 All-Conference basketball~. The r I Conference coaches again named the all-star basketball teams and included an honorable mention category. The comple te I]" I I teams: FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Knott, Dale F Dyer, Petersburg Hinton, Rockport F Guimond, Oakland City Jolly, Rockport C Falls, Oakland City Garrett, Owensville G Martin, Mt. Vernon Harris, Dale G Jacobs, Cannelton Honorable Mention: Carpenter, Owensville; Nickell, Mt. Vernon; Aders, Lampkins, Richland; Lain, Cannelton; and Taylor, Petersburg. ' IV. THE SIXTH ANNUAL FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ~ is champion. In the final game of the tourney Dale.s freshman Aces won an overtime game from Mt. Vernon's freshmen with the tourney being held in Dale on January 28 and 30, 1954. The complete tournament results: Mt. Vernon 33 ;iiR~i";;'c'r'h-i:-l';;'an;;;"':;::d';;'::;:~~2';'4-Mt. Vernon 39 Mto Vernon 35 Cannelton 29 Owensville 22 Owensville 32 DAm ;;"::'~='::;";::=-~~3';;0-Petersbu.rgPetersburg 35 (ti ) Champion Rockport - 27 over me Dale 38 Oakland City 30 D 1 Dale 34 a e 33 V. THE SPRING MEETING OF'TEE CONFERENCE IN 1954 Meeting at Boonvill~. In a meeting held at centra1ly ',located Boonville on April 5, 1954, new officers were elected., i i I 118' Mr .. William Weathers!) Petersburg principal» was elected ,, president; Mr. Marlin E. Kell, Oakland City principal» vice- president; and Mr. Ralph Kifer, Dale principal, secretary treasurer. The advisability of a modified membership in the Conference was discussed and referred to a committee. It was voted at this meeting that me~als be given by the Conference to all first team selections in both football and basketball. The coaches ruled out the use of aluminum football cleats because of the numerous injuries resulting, from the chipping of this type of cleat. VI. THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRACK AND FIELD MEET Mt. Vernon ~ third consecutive title ~ six records fall. Six new records were set as Mt. Vernon rolled to its third consecutive Pocket Athletic Conference track title with a, total of sixty-nine points .. Petersburg was second with thirty-seven and one-half points;; Oakland City had thirty-one;; Cannelton!) twenty and one-half; Richland, eleven; Owensville.!' ten; and Dale, eight. Mr. Don Foster, Mt. Ver... nonts standout hurdler, bettered his own record in the 120 yard high hurdles and erased the old mark in the 220-yard dash. Mr .. Foster covered the hurdles in :1407, one-tenth of a s.econd faster than his time in the 1953 meet. In the 220 yard dash.. Mr. Foster cut six-tenths of a second off the old record. He covered the distance in :22.8 secondso Mr. Bob 119' Ma.rtin~ another outstanding hurdler on the Mt$ Vernon squad,,' broke the record he set last year in the low hurdles, with a time of :21.9, cutting one-tenth of a second from his previous record. Petersburg's mile relay team of VJNelch, Dowden, Mitchell, and Asbell cut one-tenth of a second off the old record, set by a Petersburg relay team in 1941, as they turned in a 3:44.3 time. Mto Vernonts SSO-yard relay team of Higgins, Martin, Deig" and Foster knocked one and one-tenth seconds off the record which Mt. Vernon had set in 1953, as they covered the distance in 1:35.5 0 Place in State Meet. Coach Jim Baxter's ace hurdler, 1Vh'o Don Foster, later placed second in both the l20-yard high hurdles and the lSO-yard low hurdles in the State Finals track and field meet held on Tech"s field in Indianapolis, May 22, 1954. CH.APfER XIX A SUMMARY OF CONFERENCE SPORTS Football Seven schools in the Conference have shared football titles 0 Mt. Vernon, the largest ~chool in the Conference, has won the most crowns, five. Petersburg has taken the championship four times. Tell City was runner-up $even times while that school was in the Conferenoe. SUMMARY OF WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP YEAR CHAMPION VJ1 !: T ~ RUN:NER ...UP Wi -L T ~ '( 1938 Owensville 6 1 0 .957 Cannelton 5 2 0 0714 1939. Poseyville 6 0 1 1.000 Tell City 5 1 0 .833 :1 Oakland City 5 1 0 0833 I 1940 Mt. Vernon 8 0 0 1.000 :Petersburg 5 1 0 0833 ", 1941 Poseyville 8 0 0 1.000 Tell City 6 1 0 e857 :/ OWensVille 5 Z 0 0714 I 1942 Cannelton 8 0 0 1.000 I 1943 Mto Vernon 4 0 0 10000 Tell City 3 1 0 .750 :~ 1944 Mto Vernon 4 0 0 1.000 Tell City 3 1 0 .750 i 1945~Petersburg 4 0 0 10000 Tell City :3 1 0 .750 1946 Mt. Vernon 6 0 1 10000 Dale 6 1 0 e857 :[ 1947 Dale 8 0 0 10000 Mt. Vernon 7 1 0 0875 !t 1948 Petersburg 8 0 1 10000 Tell City 7 2 0 0778· fI ll, 1949 Petersburg 9 0 0 10000 Tell City 8 1 0 0889 Ii. 1 1.000 Mt. Vernon 7 1 1 0875 !I 1950 Petersburg 8 0 \I Mt. Vernon 8 1 0 0889 if 1951 Cannelton 6i zi- 1 .750 . I' Tell City 8 1 0 .889 Ii 1952 Dale 1 0833 Rockport 7 2 0 .778 ;! It if ~t Rockport 6 1 0 0857 q;c 1953 Oakland City '2 1 .928 .~.; " :I~ Basketball iii Tell City oaptured three basketball championships I~ during the five years that the sport has been sanctioned as I~ 121 a Conference spor·t since its inception in the fall of 19490,' The title has been shared twice, first by Tell City and Owensville in 1949-1950 and then by Rockport and Owensville in 1953-19540 Summary of basketball winners and runners-up: YEAR CHAMPION Wf L PCT. RUNNER-UP wr L ~ 1949-50 Tell City ? 0 1.000 qannelton 3 2 .600 Otrvensville 4 0 1.000 1950-51 Tell City 8 0 10000 Mt. Vernon 5 1 0833 1951-52 Rockport 6 2 0?50 Owensville 5 2 .?14 1952-53 Tell City 5 1 0833 Rockport 6 2 0?50 Rockport 5 1 0833 1953-54 Owensville 5 1 0833 Dale 5 2 0714 Following is a summary of the winners and runners-up in the annual aingle-elimination freshman basketball tourna- ment: YEAR CH.AMPIO.N RUNNER-UP 1949 Owensville Cannel"ton 1950 Mt. Vernon Oakland City 1951 Mt .. Vernon Oakland City 1952 Rockport Owensville 1953 Rockport Tell City I 1954 Dale Mto Vernon ,I Track For years, Petersburg has been known as the fore ,Ii i most track school among the smaller high schools in South I I western and Western Indiana.. Each year their own Feters I burg Relays is one of the biggest track and field carnivals I: in .Indiana. .Annually, rnore than three hundred .athletes fro:g1 i" I~ 'a.ll high schools,large and small, in Southwestern and I~ h :" ' "'",I·,',' .-, ..J 122- Western Indiana compete in these Petersburg Relays 0 PI'obab1Y'j) this is the reason the Indians have been able to dominate their own Conference. Only within the past three years, when Mt. Vernon won the championships , has the supremecy of Petersburg been challenged. Following is a year-by-year summary of track winners and runners~up: YEAR CHAMPION POINTS RUNNER-UP POINTS 1939 Boonville 59 Petersburg 55 2/3 1940 Boonville 58 1/2 Petersburg 47 1/2 1941 Mt. Vernon 52 5/S Petersburg 52 1/2 1942 Fetersburg 77 Tell City 18 1943 Petersburg 103 Oakland City S 1944-1945 --- War Ye ara : No Conference Meets 1946 Petersburg 78 Rockport 21 1947 Petersburg 84 1/5 Mto Vernon 29 1/10 1948 Petersburg 6a Mt. Vernon 45 1949 Petersburg 79 1/2 Mt. Vernon 51 1/2 1950 Petersburg 68 1/3 Cannelton 54 5/6 1951 Petersburg 57 Mt. Vernon 39 1/3 1952 Mt. Vernon 82 5/6 Petersburg 42 1/3 1953 Mt. Vernon 70 Oakland City 40 1954 Mt. Vernon 69 Petersburg 37 1/2 ,Following is a complete list of Conference records: RECORD-HOLDER SCHOOL MARK YEAR SET lOO-yard dash Foster Mt. Vernon :10.3 1953 220-yard dash Foster Mt,o Vernon :2208 1954 440";"yard dash Barker Petersburg :53.2 1952 880-yard run sturgeon Cannelton 2:05,,2 1954 mile run Zellers Canneltion 4:45.7 1950 120-yard high hurdles Foster Mt. Vernon :14.7 1954 l80-yard low hurdles Martin NIt. Vernon :21.9 1954 880-yard relay MtoVernon 1:35.5 1954 mile'relay Pe-t:;ersburg 3:4403 1954 shot put Potts Mt. Vernon 50t S tl 1949 high"jump steer Petersburg S'I" 1949 broad j~mp Dunn Petersburg 20~2 3/4ft 1948 pole vault Carter Pe tersb'urg 12 t 1" 1950 123 Io BENEFITS AND VALUES TO SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIE:S A direot result of the Pooket Athletio Oonference has been improved athletic relationships between member schools. Schedules now are systematically arranged, thus providing balanced competition. Schools know whom they are going to play and when the contiests are scheduled far e nough in advance that t~e entire school program can be planned to inclu.de these athletic events. Athletic con tests no longer are haphazard affairs, but are planned$ directed, and supervised in a manner to promote wholesome , exercise for the boys participating. The remainder of the I I student body likewise has benefitted in that they are pro iI 'Wided with supervised entertainment which has become an in... if 'i II tagral part of their extra-curricUlar activitieso II . 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