This is Ron Lytle, a member of the St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Cumberland's "Irish" basketball team. The photograph was taken on April 4, 1968. Ron is now a professional photographer living in Hagerstown where he owns and manages The Contemporary School of the Arts and Gallery, Inc.
Depicted at the very top of this circa 1956 Fort Hill High School basketball team photograph is John Wesley Wormack. As a Junior, John was the only black on the varsity Fort Hill High School football team. This was out of 35 players, plus coaches and managers. As seen here he is the only black depicted on the varsity basketball team as well. This would make him one of the first, if not the first black to play these two varsity sports at Fort Hill. The 1956 Sabre did not depict any blacks on the varsity baseball or track teams.
On the far left back row is Carver High School basketball coach Walter Crawford II. Team members include #6 Maurice Darr, #8 Charles Denmark, #9 Robert Lewis, #10, Earl Green , #5 Phillip Taylor, #11 Roger Jones, #2 Walter Younger, and #3 Ray Taylor.
Walter Clementine Crawford II, 1914 - 1968
In the 1940s the Wilson Hardware Company of Cumberland, a local supplier and outfitter of sports equipment for local school teams, held a display show for 27 area coaches. Carver High School coach Walter C. Crawford II, depicted in the center, attended the exhibition.
This is a photograph of the Allegany High School Basketball Team, circa 1967.
Front Row, Left to Right: Coach Jim Thompson, Jeff Williams, Tom Green, Corky Hickle, Kevin Sellers.
Back Row, Left to Right: Carl Cecil, John Lange, Richard Stover, Gary Rymer, John Martin, Jim Walton, John Jesse "Perkey" Yates (Class of 1967). Additional information on Perkey Yates is located elsewhere on this website.
Allegany Basketball Team, circa 1966.
From left to right: David Bruce, Nial (Pete) Keys, Kevin Sellers, Steve Lee, Jim Rapson, John Lange, Gary Rymer, Larry Beachy, Bing Rotruck, Rick Haines, Robert (Bob) Powell, Corky Hickle, and Coach Jim Thompson
Keys graduated in 1967, and Powell in 1966. Pete Keys was born in 1949 and passed away in 1976. Keys, along with his brother Rodney and Elaine Frisby, were among the first African-American children to integrate Cumberland's Columbia Street Elementary School in September 1955.
These two Allegany High School basketball players toast each other with a bottle of Pepsi-Cola after what must have been an Allegany High School team victory. On the far left is Richard "Baldy" Powell, in the middle is Gary Shook, and on the right is Gary Frisby. Though the date is not identified, Gary Shook and Gary Frisby were in the class of 1959, while Richard "Baldy" Powell graduated in 1960. The photo was probably taken during the 1958-1959 school year.
— CUMBERLAND - Former Fort Hill High School standout Mike Page has always worked hard and he says he learned to take that work ethic to another level after earning a spot on the West Virginia University football team as a walk-on.
The former All-State football player and track star will be challenging the members of the Bishop Walsh football team to work hard and reach beyond what they think their capabilities may be.
Page was announced as the Spartans' new head coach on Monday, succeeding Paul Miller. There were 14 candidates for the post.
This photograph depicts "The Cutt" Cumberland Flag-Football League Championship Team. This team compiled a record of 55 wins and zero losses while on their way to winning five consecutive league championships from 2000-2004. The team is sponsored by Derik Stephens, owner of "The Cutt Barber-Stylist Shop" on Pine Avenue.
This was one of the early football teams from the old Howard High School in Piedmont, West Virginia.
Team members included, first row, left to right: Victor Fisher, Louis Saunders, Eddie Redman, Bob Magruder, Don Johnson, Charles Walker, Ellis Walker, and Mike Hollingsworth.
Standing in the back row, are left to right: Robert Stewart, James Brooks, Clyde Johnson, Walter Bartlett, Ed Coleman, Denny Malone, Sam Washington, Jamey Johnson, Clarence Twyman, and Robert Allen, Manager.