TSD Athletic Hall of Fame

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  • 1934-1935 Stewart Basketball Team
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The Oxford Stewart High School basketball team of the 1934-1935 season was the first team from Butler County to advance to the final game of the Ohio High School Basketball Tournament. In qualifying for the state meet, the Stewart boys won their third consecutive Butler County Championship. Then it was on to Dayton, where they won the district championship and the right to play in the state tournament. In the state championship final game, the Stewart boys were matched up against the defending class B State Champions, the Famous Waterloo Wonders.

Going into the championship game, Waterloo sported a two-year record of 86 wins and only 3 losses. They were widely acclaimed as the best high school basketball team in the state. The championship game was played before a record crowd of 8,743, by far the largest crowd ever to witness a high school tournament game in Ohio, according to he March 28, 1935, edition of the Oxford Free Press Newspaper. The press accounts go on to state that, “Both teams played brilliant, but cautious basketball” The Stewart boys fell three points short and lost to the Famous Waterloo Wonders by the low score of 25 to 22.

It is fitting that this Stewart High School basketball team of 1934-35 be enshrined in the Talawanda Athletic Hall of Fame.

The members of this team were: Earl Chears, Carl Forbriger, Don Inloes, Frank Kyger, Harold Schriever, Tom Shockey, Joe Tanner, Carlyle Triick, Francis Whalen, and Ken Wisecup. The team manager was Clinton McKay and the coach was Delbert “Curly” Walton.