1940 Glouster Coach Don Greider

9/14/1940 Wellston Away L 0 32

9/20/1940 Chauncey-Dover Home L 0 32

9/27/1940 M&M Home L 0 32

10/4/1940 New Concord Home L 0 6

10/10/1940 Caldwell Away L 0 7

10/17/1940 Jacksonville-Trimble Home L 6 27

10/24/1940 New Lexington Home L 6 14

10/31/1940 Crooksville Home L 0 20

11/7/1940 Philo Home L 6 33

The first game in Glouster Memorial Stadium was the Chauncey game in week 2.  The New Lexington game was the stadium dedication game.

Starters: J. Cunningham, J. Shears, J. Duncan, B. Henry, Beshara, Banfield, Carter, Kamento, Waldeck, A. Goodman, Byers, D. Cunningham

Post Season Awards:

Beshara 2nd Team MVL

1941 Glouster Coach Don Greider

9/19/1941 Caldwell Home W 7 0

9/25/1941 New Concord Home L 0 20

10/3/1941 Crooksville Home W 18 0

10/10/1941 New Lexington Home T 7 7

10/17/1941 Philo Away W 32 0

10/24/1941 Chauncey-Dover Home L 6 20

10/31/1941 M&M Away L 0 6

11/11/1941 Nelsonville Home W 25 12

11/14/1941 Jacksonville-Trimble Home W 25 0

11/19/1941 Butchel Home W 54 0

During the last three games, fans were given the opportunity to vote for the best senior back and best senior lineman of 1941.  The winners were announced at the half of the Butchel game.  The best back was Frank Kamento and the best lineman was Jack Bradley.  A junior high game was played during the halftime of the Butchel game, and later when the seniors were subbed out, the junior high teams ran out onto the field and carried the seniors off.

Coach Don Greider would be drafted at the conclusion of this season

Starters: McClelland, Bob Bryson, Burns, Jennice, Hickman, Jack Bradley, Carter, Wolf, Byers, Frank Kamento, McAllister

John Cunningham started most of the season at fullback but missed the end of the season with a leg injury

Post Season Awards

1st Team MVL - Jennice, Kamento

2nd Team MVL - D. Cunningham

Honorable Mention MVL - J. Cunningham, Bradley

Row 1: Calvin Davis, Burns, Bryon Russell, Paul McAllister, Don Hickman, Don Price, Ed Thomas, John Tigner, Charles Jennice

Row 2: Manager (unknown), Gene Waldeck, Gene Rice, Don Cunningham, Frank Wolfe, Robert Byers, Wendel Dunlevy, Turk Limo, Coach Vollmer

Letterwinners: McAllister, Dunlevy, Burns, Jennice, Hickman, Russell, Tigner, Byers, Wolf, Rice, Cunningham, Calvin, Davis, Thomas, Searls, Smith, Waldeck

Captains: Charles Jennice, Frank Wolf

Glouster wins the MVL championship,

New Concord finished 2nd in the league, Glouster beat New Concord on a pass with 15 seconds left in the game (Cunningham to McAllister) The other two close league games (New Lexington and Philo), saw Glouster score on their first possessions and then hold the lead for the remainder of the game.  The lone loss was to a Pomeroy team that finished 7-2 overall.  Their losses were to Athens (14-12) and Middleport (7-6).  Pomeroy defeated Logan, Jackson and Gallia Academy that season.

1943 Glouster Coach L.G. DeLong

9/17/1943 Pomeroy Away L 0 12

9/24/1943 Marietta Away L 12 38

10/1/1943 The Plains Home L 7 20

10/8/1943 Middleport Away L 6 26

10/15/1943 Chauncey-Dover Home T 0 0

10/22/1943 The Plains Home L 0 7

10/29/1943 M&M Away L 13 14

11/3/1943 Chauncey-Dover Home L 0 13

The MVL suspended operations due to a decrease in the value of a gas ration, Glouster BOE had announced that a football season was “highly unlikely” which caused Coach Vollmer to leave the district.  When a team was organized, Coach DeLong was the “emergency coach”.

Team Members: McAllister, Morrison, Waldeck, Meade, Brown, La Coste, Price, Searles, Davis, Buchman, Darling, L. Wolf, A. Wold, Roberts, Gamwell, King, Zimmer, Grandy, C. Morrison, Kurtzman, Withem, Dennison, Morris, Burris, Trace, Cox, McCraner

1944 Glouster Coach Dr. Charles “Doc” Patton

9/15/1944 Philo Away L 0 29

9/22/1944 Marietta Away L 12 34

10/5/1944 M&M Home W 13 0

10/12/1944 Crooksville Away L 6 39

10/20/1944 Chauncey-Dover Home T 0 0

10/26/1944 New Lexington Away L 14 27

11/3/1944 St. Thomas Home W 33 19

11/10/1944 Roseville Home W 38 13

11/26/1944 M&M Home W 13 6

Prior to the start of the season, a replacement league for the MVL was announced called the Valley Athletic League as a way divided the MVL so that teams would play against schools geographically closer to them. According to the original schedule, Glouster's portion of the VAL was M&M, Crooksville, New Lexington, Roseville and Philo. This plan was scrapped when the MVL announced it would resume with a full league schedule and with the addition of Zanesville St. Thomas and Roseville High Schools.  The Second M&M game was a benefit where proceeds were given to the war effort.

Letterwinners: Tom Buchman, Frank Darling, Dick Byers, Bill Roberts, Andrew Wold, Paul Meade, Bob Gamwell, Bill Skinner, Jim Davis, Bob Viney, Charles Morrison, Jack Trace, Carl LaCorte, Charles McAfoose, Dayne Witham, Charles Zimmer, Roy Byers, Max Morris, Roger Cox, Rolland McCraner, Bill Brown, and Dick Stahl.

Doc Patton stepped down as coach at the end of the year to open a branch of his practice in Logan.

1945 Glouster Coach Neil Roberts

9/14/1945 The Plains Home W 7 0

9/21/1945 Marietta Away L 0 53

9/28/1945 Crooksville Home L 6 36

10/4/1945 M&M Away L 7 19

10/12/1945 Chauncey-Dover Home L 13 19

10/19/1945 New Lexington Home T 7 7

10/25/1945 Philo Home L 7 53

11/1/1945 St Thomas Away W 45 13

11/12/1945 Roseville Away L 20 26

Zanesville St. Thomas leaves the MVL at the conclusion of the school year

Starters and Seniors: Byers, Morrison, LaCorte, Zimmer, Morris, Kurtzman, Trace, Jenkins, Wolfe, Witham, Cox, Payton

Glouster Superintendent announced prior to the start of practice that the team would have co-coaches.  Ralph Darling (GHS ‘35) was hired as the co-coach along with Neil Roberts who was the head coach in 1945

Team Members: Jim Jennings, Delmar Wright, Junior McClelland, Jerry Dunlevy, Robert Chute, Joe Crawford, Gilbert Bingman, Mick Hinton, Bob Jewell, Bob Angle, Jack Dodson, Roy Rogers, James Cotter, David Byers, Ervin Moody, Benny LaCorte, Charles Bailey, Kenneth Boyer, Dick Viney, Bob Jenkins, Trevison Brunton, Bill Rigney, Bill Brown, Norman Jenkins, Alva McClelland, Alfronso Harding

Managers: Bob Cotter, Bob Ginnan, Edwin Carpenter

Because Caldwell and Glouster's uniforms were nearly identical, Glouster "had to borrow jerseys of blue and white from the nearby school, Jacksonville-Trimble" - The Journal (Caldwell) 10/31/1946

All MVL: Jenkins, Byers 

1947 Glouster Coaches Neil Roberts and Ralph Darling 

9/12/1947 South Zanesville Home W 25 0

9/19/1947 Philo Away L 0 19

9/25/1947 M&M Home L 9 27

10/3/1947 New Concord Away L 0 52

10/10/1947 Chauncey-Dover Away T 0 0

10/17/1947 New Lexington Home T 0 0

10/24/1947 Caldwell Away L 6 31

10/30/1947 Crooksville Home L 6 51

11/7/1947 Roseville Home L 6 12

11/10/1947 Jacksonville-Trimble *see note below

Co-Coach Ralph Darling would leave Glouster to become the head coach at Oak Hill High School

Of the 40 boys enrolled at Glouster High School, 33 were on the football team.

All MVL: Brown, Dunlevy

*The Glouster/JT game was announced in the Messenger, but no game result appears in the 1948 Glouster yearbook

The Philo game was filmed and shown at “Youth Night” at the Glouster Moose 10/8/1947

Third Row - Lee Dennison, James Trace, Bob Cotter, Tom Pappas, Harry Andrews, Jimmy Cevelo, Paul Lee, John Crawford, Ralph Collins

Second Row - Bob Ginnan, John Dunnette, Richard Fultz, Richard Powers, Raymond Johnston, Pat Crawford, Max Goodman, Dick Keith, Bob Jewell, Wayne Davis, Farley Brunton, Coach Leuck

First Row - Paul Adams, Gilbert Bingman, Mick Hinton, Bill Brown, Benny LaCorte, Joe Crawford, Ervin Moody, Alva McClelland, James Johnston, Alfonzo Harding

The South Zanesville game appeared on the preseason schedule with the comment that it wasn’t verified, the game was ultimately canceled without a replacement

The Rutland game was described as a “Post Season Game” in the Gallia Newspaper

All MVL: Brown, Goodman 

Beginning in 1949 and lasting through the 1955 season, Glouster would participate in the “Zanesville Olympia” which was a preview for the MVL.  Teams would play 2 quarters and there are seasons when this preview would occur during the same week that other schools were playing their first game of the season.  This is why most of Glouster’s schedules would only have 9 games.

All MVL: Ed Dunnette, Goodman

Team Members: F. Brunton, R. Johnston, J. Franklin, P. Crawford, R. Fultz, J. Dunnette, R. Powers, M. Goodman, W. Davis, G. Fultz, B. Cotter, J. Trace, G. McGlaughlin, J. Raber, J. Cevolo, H. Dugan, R. Spencer, F. Hedfelt, L. Dugan, H. Andrews, M. Trace, C. Whaley, J. McClelland, J. Hartley, J. Stephenson, D. Olbers, J. Murphy, B. Molnar