The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1959-06-19
Diocesan Teams
Had EUentfuI Year

Now that the Diocesan high school gymnasiums
are Shrouded in summer time silence with the depar-
ture of students for vacation, it's a good time to re-
view the high points recorded in sports action during
the past school term.
Many championships, coaching changes and ex-
panSion of athletics at some of the 20 schools figured
in the headlines during the past school year.
The biggest news was made during the football
season when three Diocesan teams posted Unbeafen
records and fwo of them won league championships.
Powerful Rosary had, without much question, the
best football team in the Diocese. Rated among the
best teams in the State by two wire associations,
Rosary bowled over eight opponents by scoring a total
of 355 points. The opposition failed to score a solitary
point against the Crusaders.
As a result of RoSary's remarkable grid record,
Crusader Coach Forest Shamrock was named Central
Ohio'S 1883 Coach of the Year" by the Columbus
Citizen-Union Co. selection committee.
Rosary also kept up its winning ways all through
the high school athletic season by winning the Frank
lin County League titles in basketball and track, as
we'll as in football and also by winning the county
cage tournament. Only in baseball did the Crusaders
fail to win the title, but they did finish second.
Also coming through with unbeaten records were
Dennison St. Mary and New Lexington st. Aloysius.
st. Mary won 10 games to run its unbeaten grid
streak to 19, during two seasons under Coach Paul
Drotovick.
st. Aloysius won all eight of its games, even
though the Blue Knights were playing their first full
season in I1-man football.
Although Portsmouth Noire Dame didn't win all
of its games, the Titans provided plenty of drama by
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ference title for the first time in the schools history.
Even though he didn't even have a complete sec
ond string, Coach Bill APPEL coached his team to the
title causing one Portsmouth writer to term the feat
the football miracle Of 1853.
Big man in Notre Danes attack was Nick Weber
who scored 148 points, best in the Diocese.
None OF the Diocesan teams went very far in the
basketball tournaments Last season but Rosary did win
the County League title; Newark Catholic the Central
Catholic League cage crown; and Mt. Vernon st. Vim
cent finished in a three-way tie for the title in the
Knox County Loop.
AS a result of 81. Vincent lying for The title, even
though every starter from the 1853 championship
team had been graduated, Coach John Murphy was
voted the 1859 Knox County Coach of the Year"
Another event of note was the formation of the
Central Catholic League in baseball. The same five
teams making up the Gel cage loop-St. Charles,
Newark Catholic, Holy Family, Watterson and Spring
field Central Catholic - formed the baseball circuit.
Bishop Hartley High School, which played a re-
serve schedule Except for four varsity cage games)
during the past school year, will become the sixth
member of the Gel next season.
Getting back to championship teams, ST. Charles
did it again by winning the first Gel baseball crown.
ST. Charles also went into the Central District
baseball tournament finals for the 1lth time in 20
years and won q coehsmpionship for The Class IA
title.
New Lexington ST. Aloysius won the Diocesan
lnvitational Track and Field Meet for the third time
In four years. Six records were set in this years meet
The 1958-59 school year also saw expansion of
sports at several Diocesan schools. Lancaster st. Mary
and Newark Catholic fielded their first baseball teams.
Newark Catholic fielded its first 11-man football team
as did Mt. Vernon st. Vincent. Lancaster ST. Mary
gets into 11-man football for the first time in a quarter