1942 PHSL Championship at Walnut Hills

Walnut Hills: 1942 PHSL Champions

Our site has been in operation for only a little bit over a month, so our football history archive is not even close to completion. However, as interesting information is discovered about our football program's past, the administrator of this site will make it a point to release certain stories as we work on the overall archive. Here is the November 2006 installment in what we hope will be series of stories about our past. We hope this honors our fellow Alumni.

Row 4: Tom Guggenheim (manager), Nate Barnett, Norris Stayton, Ted Buka, Ross Sommer, Walter Glas (manager)

Row 3: Charles Cartwright, Dick Mehornay, Herb Brinkman, Joe Meyer, Emmet Wittwer, Frank Ferreri, Dave Pauly, John Glenn, Paul Krone

Row 2: Paul Ginburg, Bob Pugh, Frank Bueche, Walter Heuck, Roy Stickney, Jay Sikes, Andy Carnochan, Dave Thompson

Row 1: Frank Ginn, John Woellner, Sanford Armstrong, Al Gaither, John Conners, Glenn Melzer, Jack Beyersdorfer, Jim Heekin

As November 2006 comes to a close and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue, thoughts turn to the fall of 1942, when we were just entering the war against Japan and Nazi Germany. Paging through the 1943 Rem, I see an age of leather helmets and daytime games played on the site of the current Robert S. Marx Stadium - no stands, just those "mysterious" narrow stone steps that were there even after the original Marx stadium was built in 1979. Beyond the fence, where one day I-71 would roar with traffic, a quiet, gray sky stretches unobstructed by power lines or billboards. Still, looking beyond the fading black and white photos and the dated uniforms, you see the faces of kids no different than our own. In a time of war, under the leadership of first-year head coach Bob Reuss, Walnut Hills' seniors took the field, knowing that many of them would probably end up on the battlefields of Europe and the South Pacific. What would be their fate after Walnut Hills? Where did they go? Whom did they become? If any of these men are alive today, they would be in their 80s. We would very much like to hear from them. Maybe you recognize your father or grandfather in the team photo? Please note that the year book makes no mention if the list of names corresponds left to right or right to left. Please contact the Administrator if you were or knew a member of the 1942 championship team. We'd be honored to hear from you. For now, all we can do is take a brief trip back to the autumn of 1942 and present what remains of those memories and that championship season.

1942 Scheudle
Walnut Hills 12	Wyoming 0
Walnut Hills 6	Lockland 12
Walnut Hills 42	North College Hill 6
Walnut Hills 25	Woodward 6
Walnut Hills 7	Reading 0
Walnut Hills 13	Western Hills 0
Walnut Hills 26	Central Vocational 0
Walnut Hills 25	Hartwell 0
1942 PHSL Division II Champions

Text from the1943 yearbook: Following the Hartwell game, the team celebrated its season with a party at a local theater. But the official climax was the annual senior Hi-Y football banquet, at which H.S. McCranahan, assistant coach at Ohio State, gave an address.