59 - Port Washington Purple Riders Basketball Coaches Roundup

BASKETBALL COACHES

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H.J. YOUNG

1933 -

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BRAY TOOT (Delroy High School 1923 - Kent State 1927)

1946 - 1st Year

1947 -

1948 -

1949 -

1948 -

1949 -

1950 - 9th Place (3-7)(5-13)(Lost to Midvale 45-21; Lost to Tuscarawas 49-45)(Reserve Team (2-12)

1951 -

1952 -

1953 -

1954 - Tied with Baltic for 3rd Place (7-3)(10-6)(Beat Mineral City 64-57; Lost Strasburg 61-60; Beat Sugarcreek-Shanesville 60-50; Lost Baltic 71-56)(Reserve Team (8-8)

1955 - Tied with Stone Creek for 5th Place (6-4)(15-8)(Beat Dundee 66-47; Lost Strasburg 87-46; Lost Stone Creek 55-42)(Reserve Team (13-3)

1956 - 4th Place (6-4)(15-8)(Beat Baltic 84-54; Lost Midvale 71-69; Beat Dundee 94-54; Beat Gnadenhutten 61-45 for Consolation Championship Title)(1st Title of any kind ever for Port Washington)(Reserve Team (14-3)(Grade Team 5-3)

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JAMES R. PFEIFFER (Stone Creek High School 1950 - US Army - Kent State 1962)

1957 - Tied with Midvale for 6th Place (4-5)(13-9)(Beat Dundee 85-53; Lost Tuscarawas Valley 88-63; Beat Baltic 106-74; Lost Tuscarawas 73-66)(Reserve Team (3-3)(Grade Team (3-3)

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ELMER W. (BILL) OPPENHEIMER (Portsmouth High School - Ohio University)(After Port Ashtabula College, working in 1964-1965?)

1958 - 9th Place (0-8)(1-18)(Lost to Midvale 71-42)(Reserve Team (1-17)(Grade Team (5-6)

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THOMAS A. DAVIES (Waynesburg College PA 1954 - Willoughby Junior High School PA Coach 1955)

MARK D. COVERT (Bowling Green State University 1958 - Assistant Coach Basketball, Head Coach Baseball and Track at Port Washington)

1959 - 9th Place (0-8)(3-17)(Lost Garaway 87-49)(Reserve Team under Coach Covert, (5-12)(Grade Team under Coach Neil Compton (1-0, all other games not reported)

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Gary Gay, Research