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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Don Measel attended Stivers from 1955- 1959 – during which time, he became an all around athlete. Don played both football and baseball, 4 years at Stivers lettering 2 times in each sport. He played basketball 4 years at Stivers. This was truly his best sport. He was a 2 […]
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Don came to Stivers from Emerson Elementary School. His mother refused to let Don play sports his freshman year because she wanted him to make better grades. Don played three years of varsity football and two years of varsity baseball. He was a two year starter as an offensive tackle […]
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Jim Benge was a 3 sport athlete at Stivers earning 2 letters in football, 2 letters in basketball and 3 letters in baseball. Although baseball was his favorite and best sport, Jim made basketball his lifelong competitive love even to the day he died in 2010. Jim was a 2 […]
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In 1925, Sam was the captain of the very successful Emerson Junior High basketball team. The team went on to win the City Junior High Basketball Championship. His teammates were Bill Hosket, Max Padlow, Herb Brown, Larry McAfee and Bobby Colburn who all went on to Stivers. Sam went to Steele […]
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Cletus “Clete” Sillin had a great athletic career at Stivers. He was on the basketball team in 1918, 19 and 20. The basketball team was state champion in 1919 and ‘20. By far his better sport was football. He played on the 1917, 18 and 19 football teams. The team’s 1918 […]
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A precocious, quick athlete with good size, Dan had an effect on Stivers teams even before he arrived there. He ran freshman track as an 8th grader. He played varsity football all four years, and as a sophomore he was the starting end on both offense and defense for Hall […]
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