This section is dedicated to our alumni/ae. It is a new site in which former athletes can share their experiences, highlights, and fond memories.
From Chris Underhill ’52:
When I was a teacher I was also varsity basketball coach. The gym was built during my tenure. When the gym was finished, before anyone else used it, John Verdery and I went to the gym to look it over. John wanted to take the first shot. We found a basketball and he took a two-handed set shot from some twenty to twenty-five feet. I was dumbfounded when it went in. As far as I know, he never shot a basketball again.
One play stands out when Korb Eynon and I were coaching the JV football team. We were playing South Kent there. Their team was bigger, stronger and faster than we were. Going into the final minutes of the game we had not scored. South Kent, by some miracle, had scored only one touchdown and had missed the extra point.
As the game neared the end, South Kent was driving. They were running the ball for big yardage. It seemed clear they would score and put the game away. When they reached Wooster’s ten yard line, despite having run the ball successfully, the South Kent quarterback decided to pass. The ball was intercepted by John Brown in the end zone and run back over 100 years for a Wooster touchdown. We made the extra point and won the game.
It was the single most exciting play I have ever personally witnessed.
