J-T Cardinals  1940-1949

1940 JT Coach W.M. Anderson

9/13/1940 Logan Away L 6 52

9/20/1940 St Charles Away L 0 47

9/27/1940 The Plains Home W

10/4/1940 Buchtel Away W

10/11/1940 Rutland Away W 19 0

10/17/1940 Glouster Home W 27 6

10/25/1940 McArthur Home W

10/31/1940 Chauncey Home W 21 13

11/24/1940 M&M N L 0 27

Hocking Valley League Champions

Little Seven Conference becomes Hocking Valley League

JT played M&M in Athens as an end of the season matchup between the best in the MVL and HVL.

Starters: Ken Nelson, Withem, Morrison, Earich, Davis, Cannon, White, Skinner, Keith Nelson, Gaskella, Wagner, Subs: Kloh, Anderson, McNenamey, Anderews, Matyskella

Keith Nelson scored 104 points for the season, at the time placing him in the top 10 in scoring in Ohio history.

The Logan Daily News report of the JT/Glouster game described JT as “Blue and White clad eleven”

J-T Graduate Leo Matyskella would be on the Ohio State Freshman Football Team in 1940 (pictured below, 3rd from right, front row), before joining the U.S. Army the following year

1941 JT Coach Clay Smith

10/3/1941 The Plains Away L 12 20

10/10/1941 Chauncey Away L 6 27

10/17/1941 Buchtel Home W 13 0

10/23/1941 McArthur Away L 0 25

11/7/1941 Rutland Away L 0 25

11/14/1941 Glouster Home L 0 25

W.M. Anderson resigned as a teacher and a coach just prior to the start of the school year in order to take a position as an electrician, a year later he would enlist in the Army and be commissioned as an officer. 

Starters: Burdiss, Withem, McMenamy, Earich, Matyskella, Wemmer, Might, Cannon, Gaskalla, Paskvitch, Skinner

1942-1944 JT's football program suspended for the war

1945 JT

10/12/1945 Rutland Home

10/25/1945 Rutland Away L 0 13

11/7/1945 Glouster  

An article in 1963 mentioned that the JT program played in 1946, but an end of the season recap in the Athens Messenger on December 3, 1946 did not list Jacksonville Trimble with any football games.

The Southeastern Buckeye Conference was organized with charter schools of McArthur, Oak Hill, Rutland, The Planes, Chauncey, and Coalton. (11/5/1946)

1947 JT Coach Malcolm Higgins

9/19/1947 Nelsonville Away Canceled

10/17/1947 Rutland L 13 19

11/7/1947 Coalton T 21 21

11/10/1947 Glouster *

First practice August 27

The season opener against Nelsonville was a late cancellation by JT, Nelsonville would play Columbus Holy Family instead.

While few game results have been found, the team did have an end of the season banquet.

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

An article in the Gallia Daily Tribune (2/21/1948)  listed the 1947 JT Cardinals as 3-3-1

Front Row L to R - #21Paul Newsad, #17 Richard Pease , Harold Erwin (no#), Mgr. Bob Shaw, #23 Chas. Grandy, #27 Arthur Reeves, #26 John Henry,

Second Row (kneeling) #24 Don McCollley,#13 Bill "Happy' Stoltz, #22 Charles Gabeau, #19 Ken Eberts, #11 Vern Bradka

Third Row (standing) Coach Malcom Higgins, Bill Roman (t-shirt), #18 Fred "Bird" Morrison, #20 Lawrence Cominsky, #25 Wendle Mingus, #12 Hoy Seckinger, Bill Bescoe (no #).

JT joins the Southeastern Buckeye Conference with McArthur, Chauncey, Oak Hill, Coalton, and The Plains

1949 JT Coach Malcolm Higgins

9/16/1949 Glouster Home W 37 13

9/23/1949 McArthur Away L 6 7

10/7/1949 Chauncey Away L 6 25

10/21/1949 The Plains Away L 12 19

10/27/1949 Rutland Home L 6 51

Oak Hill Leaves the SEOBL at the conclusion of the 48-49 school year, Belpre joins for the 1950 season