Friday, April 3, 2015

Basketball Champions

The 1953 Eastern Savages had a number of new players shown in uniform in the photo below.  A number roster is provided to help identify each player.             

   







              





 29-Bud Wright                26-Bill Grahlman              
 24-Don Minnich              27-Dean Roffler
 32-Bill Ellis                     20-John Dodge22John Dodge
 21-Earl Enos                    28-Bernie Hancock
 35-Ed Hill                        25-Dick Edwards
 22-Bob Eller                    
                                                                                                                                      

The basketball team lost no players to the draft, so Red had the full team he had planning on.  The team played well.  We had some accurate shooters out front. The result was a conference record of 10 wins and only 1 loss.  I played as reserve center, accumulating sufficient time to earn my letter.  Players that graduated at the end of the year were Bud Wright, Dean Roffler and Don Minnich.  Others left for various reasons, so the following year’s team was quite different.  Roffler and Minnich were certainly missed.

*Taken from "Which Road Should I Follow?, Volume 1, Growing up in the country", an autobiography by Edwin K. Hill.

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