Jake Dailey was one of the best gymnasts of the many coached by Joe Sullivan at Stivers. He competed on a national level in 1959, 1960 and 1961. In 1959 teams from Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota met in Detroit and Jake finished 2nd in the Senior Trampoline event. In Columbus […]
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Tom Talbott was a good athlete at Stivers playing football for 4 years and basketball one year. Tom, however, made his mark in athletics as a teacher and coach. Tom served 27 years as an assistant coach in football and was a head coach with 40 years in wrestling. Throughout […]
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At Stivers, Jerry Wirth earned two letters in Basketball. He was very modest about his basketball skills and preferred to give his team mates the credit for winning. By his senior year he was a key player and seemed to always step up at the right time. In his senior year, […]
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Larry McAfee, was the “best of the best” when it came to being a “student athlete”. He was a “straight – A Student”, and voted best all around boy his junior year in 1928. As a senior he was voted class president! At 5 ft, 9 inches, and 160 lbs., he […]
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Arthur “Bus” Trautwein dominated the center position in basketball in Dayton and Southwestern Ohio during the 1925 and ‘26 seasons. He was selected to All Scholastic honors in Dayton, as well as All Southwest Ohio first team. In 1926 he garnered the most points ever made in a season of […]
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Terrance learned to play basketball at the University of Dayton summer camp taught by UD Coach Oliver Purnell and future Stivers Coach Carlos Roberts. Terrance was a four year starter at point guard for the Stivers Tigers. He was only 5’8’’ and 145 pounds but was a hustler and never […]
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