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# 1929
1 L
2 L
3 W
4 L 1st home game
5 W
6 L
1930
7 L
8 L
9 W
10 L
11 L
12 L
13 L
1931 Tri-County Champs
14 W
15 W
16 T
17 W
18 W
19 W
1932
20 L
21 W
22 W
23 W
24 W
25 W
26 W
1933
27 L
28 W
29 W
30 L
31 W
32 W
33 L
34 W
1934
35 W
36 W
37 W
38 W
39 W
40 W
41 W
42 W
43 L
1935
44 T
45 W
46 W
47 W
48 W
49 W
50 W
51 L
1936 Tri-County Champs
52 W
53 W
54 W
55 L
56 W
57 W
58 W
59 W
60 W
1937 Tri-County Champs
61 W
62 W
63 W
64 W
65 W
66 W
67 W
68 W
1938
69 W
70 L
71 W
72 L
73 W
74 W
1939
75 W
76 L
77 L
78 W
79 L
80 T
81 L
Players 1930 - 2007
Portville was in the Tri-County League, South during the 30s and 40s. The high school had some great
coaches then, including Tord Beck, who won 80% of his games in 4 years, losing only once to Salamanca, Canisteo, Port Allegany,
and 3 times to Wellsville...all bigger towns.
Other gridiron monsters of the 1930s included Malcolm Todd, Bill + Bob Husband, DeForest Chaffee, and Bill Hill.
In 1937, new coach Milt Latimer led the team to an 8-0 season, allowing only 4 TDs the whole campaign. Latimer
racked up a W-L record of 38-8-2 while at Portville, including 4 undefeated seasons...before moving to Bolivar, where he coached
the Bulldogs to great success.
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Coach Ceylon Hall 2-4
7 Little Valley 33
7 Perry 18
7 Cuba 0
? Cuba ?
13 Otto-Eldred 6
0 Painted Post 26
Norm St. Clair 1-6
0 Otto-Eldred 15
? Allegany ?
19 Wellsboro 0
? Bolivar ?
? Coudersport ?
? Cuba ?
? Painted Post ?
St. Clair 5-0-1
13 South Dayton 0
? Ellicottville ?
? Coudersport ?
6 Little Valley 0
19 Otto-Eldred 6
? Allegany ?
St. Clair 6-1
0 Allegany 13
21 South Dayton 12
31 Ellicottville 0
31 Little Valley 0
12 Perry 6
6 Otto-Eldred 0
27 Cuba 0
Tord Beck 5-3
7 Wellsville 13
7 Allegany 0
13 Alden 0
6 Salamanca 32
34 Little Valley 0
8 Otto-Eldred 6
6 Canisteo 13
13 Andover 0
Beck 8-1
14 Duke Center 0
19 Alden 0
13 Allegany 12
51 Coudersport 0
20 Bolivar 6
14 Canisteo 0
57 Cuba 0
46 Wayland 0
6 Wellsville 13
Beck 6-1-1
0 Allegany 0
32 Alden 0
12 Canisteo 0
45 Coudersport 6
12 Bolivar 6
32 Duke Center 0
25 Allegany 6
0 Wellsville 18
Beck 8-1
45 Bradford JV 0
7 Bolivar 6
6 Cuba 0
0 Port Allegany 6
33 Little Valley 0
12 Springville 0
28 Allegany 0
13 West Seneca 0
6 Canisteo 0
Milt Latimer 8-0
7 Bolivar 6
19 Cuba 0
19 Port Allegany 6
14 Little Valley 0
19 Springville 0
15 Allegany 0
14 Pine Hill 7
32 Otto-Eldred 6
Latimer 4-2
34 Otto-Eldred 0
0 Bolivar 6
6 Port Allegany 0
19 Cuba 20
19 Allegany 7
20 Bolivar 0
Latimer 2-4-1
7 Springville 0
0 Cuba 6
0 Bolivar 19
13 Canisteo 6
12 Allegany 13
6 Little Valley 6
0 Bolivar 6
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1930
DeForrest Chaffee
Neil Edgett
Ted Fairchild
Wendall Haynes
Randall Hinman
Bob Husband
Forrest Newburg
Hugh West
1931
Rupert Chaffee
Henry Hackett
1932
Don Smith
1933
1934
Lee Frair
Ward Jacoby
Claude Peterson
1935
Bill Husband
1936
Malcolm Todd
1937
1938
1939
1940
Moosey Bell
Roland Wheaton
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| Tord Beck (1933-36) 27-6-1 |
The earliest evidence of American football in Portville, NY is a photo from 1921 (above), when 15 boys joined the gridiron
squad coached by Principal Vern Hutchings.
Harold "Red" Miner, who later become a Portville teacher for over 40 years, was on that team (first row, far right).
Red actually lived in the first house up Daggatt Hollow, just north of the Hawbaker Ranch.
The old Portville Review newspapers from that era claim that Portville's first official, interscholastic team
began in 1929, under Coach Ceylon Hall. Rupert Chaffee was a RB on the first team and is still living in town, inducted into the Portville Hall of Fame in 2004.
Coach Norman St. Clair helped produce the first undefeated Portville team in 1931. Legends Lee Frair and Jazz Peterson played in the early 30s, when the high school was on Main Street. In 1934, the new Lowe's Field opened up behind
the school (the youth field today), where the varsity played until 1956.
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| Buford T. Hawbaker 1935 |
Big Jim Hawbaker's uncle, Buford T. Hawbaker, was a two-way lineman, class of 1937. "Strangely, we were called the Portville Warriors
until the late 40s", noted Buford in a 1979 interview. "When the school centralized all the little schools
from Obi, Bedford, Millgrove, Promised Land, Steam Valley, and the other one-room school houses with the high school...they
adopted the panther mascot."
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