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Back Row: Raymond. Jahn, Kerfoot Morris, Hoyt Whitney, William
Lee, Paul Stelzer, and Henry Beaver Second Row: Carl Perry, Orvel. Kempton, Carleton Burrer, Merrill Mathews, and Walter Adams Front Row: Ashton Perfect, Eldon Condit
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In 1944
Yearbook . . . . |
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How the First Sunbury Football Team Became a Reality
Resubmitted to The Sunbury News by Polly Horn, Bill Whitney's
daughter |
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Pictured above is the first Sunbury High School football team in 1926 and it
took a lot ot finegeling to get it. Galena had a team and had been playing since 1923 when their football team had a 35-0 record under Coach Lybarger. For some reason Sunbury’s board rejected the idea. Bill Whitney was the older brother of Hoyt who was one of the boys who really wanted to play. Bill recalled the events which led to Sunbury’s first football team in a Sunbury News article published June 30, 1966. |
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have had a team ever since 1926," Bill
Whitney says. |
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The Sunbury News, June 30, 1966 |
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Most of the players from the team stayed in
Sunbury and became backers of future football teams. They would have been
proud of the boys in the 2007 team who won the State Championship. |
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. . . . And Now You Know |
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