Bray Toot Quits As Port Mentor (6-21-56)

Bray Toot, coach at Port Washington High since 1946 today announced he has resigned to accept the superintendency at Dellroy, where he resides and has been serving as clerk of the school board for six years. He will succeed John W. Stevens as head of the 9-grade school. Toot was coach at Dellroy 14 years, principal and coach at Hartville one year and also taught and coached at Cadiz and in Monroe County before taking the Port Washington post. Last year Toot guided the Purple Riders to the consolation championship of the county basketball tourney, marking the first cage trophy in the school's history. Port lost to Killbuck in the regional tourney. Toot had six winning seasons at Port. His best cage record was in 1947-1948 when the Purple Riders won 18 and lost 5. Bob Penrod of Mineral City now becomes the "dean" of the county's coaches with a 3-year tenure. There are now five coaching openings in the county system following resignations of cage mentors at Strasburg, Stone Creek, and Port Washington and of basketball and football coaches at Tuscarawas.
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Thursday, June 21, 1956
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio