The 1916 Stivers basketball team won 12 and lost 2 in the regular season, which qualified them for the state tournament in Delaware, Ohio. There, they were a perfect 6-0 to win the State Championship.
Coach – Willard Marquardt
Team Roster – William Lightner, Carl Ebeling, Arthur Mumma, Emerson Carmony, Brooke Marstiller,
Ed Patterson, Maurice Wright, Charles Crooks, Charles Dudley, Harold Heater and
Carl Van Horn
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1916 Season Recap
Regular Season Recap
Stivers 47 vs Xenia 24
Stivers 62 vs Lebanon 10
Stivers 34 vs Alumni 31
Stivers 28 vs Richmond 30
Stivers 56 vs Steele 13
Stivers 61 vs Toledo Scott 21
Stivers 31 vs Hamilton 28
Stivers 60 vs Wellston 12
Stivers 32 vs Toledo Scott 19
Stivers 41 vs Fairview 30
Stivers 40 vs Bowling Green 29
Stivers 60 vs Springfield 46
Stivers 30 vs Piqua 39
Stivers 24 vs Steele 17
Ohio State Tournament Results – 63 Teams in Delaware, Ohio
Stivers 18 vs Cambridge 16
Stivers 22 vs Piqua 16
Stivers 19 vs Bellaire 15
Stivers 27 vs Newark 14
Stivers 30 vs Marietta 16
State Championship
Stivers 46 vs East Liverpool 31
An interesting note: Mumma, Carmony, Ebeling and Marstiller attended Stivers for three years, but this was the first year any of them made the basketball team. Stivers went 6-0 and won the Ohio State Championship with five first year players. Also, surprising about this team is that they won the state championship without their two best players from the 1914-1915 team, captain, Sam Pollock and Lee Fenner.
Wilson “Jit” Lightner was inducted into the Stivers Athlete Hall of Fame in 2009.