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PHOTO: Midvale High School - Home Of the Midvale Blue Devils*
"Many Moons" have set since the last time a Midvale High basketball team has pocketed a County Class A League Championship. But with tomorrow night's battle against Port Washington the lads from "Stumphill" should accomplish that goal. Coach Pete Hilliard's Blue Devils, who went all the way to the state semi-final tournament in Columbus last year, need only to down the Purple Riders for their seventh league win, thus eliminating the possibility of Gnadenhutten tieing for the crown. It has been eight years since Midvale has held sole possession of the county championship. In the 1949-1950 season, when Bob French was at the helm, and the Blue Devils finished the league campaign with a 9-1 mark. It was also the third consecutive league crown captured by Midvale dating back to the 1947-1948 season. In the 1950-1951 campaign Midvale, Tuscarawas and Strasburg tied for the toga with 8-2 records. The loop then was called the Class B League instead of the modern "A" version. In the 1951-1952 season the Blue Devils went into the final league game against Tuscarawas with a 9-0 loop mark and was considered a good bet to win, but the Broncos came through by a 62-56 margin and Midvale had to be content with sharing league honors with Dundee, which now is part of the Garaway consolidation. Strasburg ended that campaign in seventh place with a 4-6 record, but then the Tigers came up with their powerful squads and became the perennial team to beat. But even during Strasburg's league reign Midvale managed to cop two county tournament titles and was runnerup once in addition to last Spring's State tourney title bid.
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Thursday, January 30, 1958
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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