Seven schools were represented on the 1955 coaches All-County League basketball team with Strasburg, Tuscarawas and Stone Creek each placing two men on the "dream team". A total of 29 players were nominated by the coaches of the 11 schools and the mentors then chose the ten top players with four others rating honorable mention. Jerry Von Kaenel and Jerry Haswell of Strasburg and Errol Jacobs of Baltic are repeaters from the 1954 All-Star selection made by the coaches. The two Strasburg players were both on the 1953 aggregation as well. Von Kaenel was the top vote-getter in the polling with Terry Deems of Tuscarawas, a lad who wasn't even mentioned last season, ranking second in the opinion of the coaches.
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DEIBEL ONLY SOPHOMORE
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Seven seniors, two juniors and a sophomore were named to the top ten by the professors of basketball with two seniors and two juniors included on the honorable mention list. Stone Creek's Ronnie Deibel, who broke into the starting lineup of the Panther varsity as a freshman, was the sophomore chosen to the group. The carrot-topped Stone Creek ace is the first sophomore honored to the team since both Haswell and Von Kaenel were named in 1953. Stone Creek also had Bill Jones on the honor squad. Jones, who was a standout as a freshman when he fired the Panthers to their only title in the 1952 County Tourney, has been mentioned each year since he was a frosh, but makes his first appearance in the All-League lineup.
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DAVIS SMALLEST PLAYER
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Named to the team from Tuscarawas along with Deems was the "half-pint" of the Bronco "Mutt and Jeff" combination. Dick Davis, who played his first season as a regular starter. Davis is the smallest member of the squad. Gnadenhutten's high-scoring guard Glen Hines and Mineral City's Pitchin' Paul Lindsey, both of whom have been peppering the nets with regularity all season, were the two juniors to break into the top ten. Rounding out the All-League choices was Paul Frank, Port Washington's veteran forward. Frank, one of the all-around top performers for the Purple Riders for the past three years, is labeled as one of the league's steadiest players.
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HONORABLE MENTION
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On the honorable mention list were Midvale's two driving guards. Bob Zontini and Larry Swinderman, senior and junior, respectively, along with Jim Kuecher, of Strasburg and Bob Baker of Dundee. The Midvale duo give the Blue Devile a dangerous offensive punch while Kuecher, a junior, has been tagged by many observers as a key player in the Strasburg success this past season. Baker, a mite-sized set-shot artist, was one of the key performers of the Dundee Bulldogs. An accident which resulted in the loss of part of a finger sidelined the Bulldog star for a brief interlude in the season and is said to have impaired his shooting ability during the latter part of the campaign. Sugarcreek-Shanesville and Baltic were the only two schools which were not represented on the team. Players were nominated by each coach and then all of the 11 mentors voted on the entire list.
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TO RECEIVE TROPHIES
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The ten players named to the All-League squad will each receive an individual trophy with his name and "All-League 1955" engraved on it. The trophies, presented by The Daily Reporter, which also donates the trophy for the tournament winner, will be given to the players when they are presented to the crowd on the night of the meet finals at Memorial Hall.
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ALL-LEAGUE TEAM
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Jerry Von Kaenel, Senior, 6-4, Strasburg
Terry Deems, Senior, 6-4, Tuscarawas
Jerry Haswell, Senior, 6-1, Strasburg
Errol Jacobs, Senior, 6-1, Baltic
Bill Jones, Senior, 6-1, Stone Creek
Dick Davis, Senior, 5-6, Tuscarawas
Glen Hines, Junior, 5-8, Gnadenhutten
Paul Lindsey, Junior, 6-0, Mineral City
Paul Frank, Senior, 6-0, Port Washington
Ronnie Deibel, Sophomore, 5-10, Stone Creek
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HONORABLE MENTION
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Jim Kuecher, Junior, 5-11, Strasburg
Bob Zontini, Senior, 5-9, Midvale
Larry Swinderman, Junior, 5-10, Midvale
Bob Baker, Senior, 5-7, Dundee
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Monday, February 14, 1955
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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