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Glendale's Top 10 Athletes Named
Glendale's top 10 athletes, according to a special selection
board, were named at Friday's Kiwanis Club meeting.
Those selected were Frank Albert, football; Damon Bame,
football; John Block, basketball; Jack Davis, track
and field; Floyd 'Babe' Herman, baseball and track; Juno
Stover Irwin, diving; Bob Reinhard, football; Ted
Schroeder, tennis; Dwight Stones, track and field, and
Frank Wykoff, track and field.
Also honored were Casey Stengel, baseball manager of
several major league clubs, including record five straight World
Series wins with the New York Yankees; Rod Dedeaux, who has
coached USC to 10 NCAA College World Series titles; Vic Francy,
who coached Hoover High to several CIF track championships, and
the late Normal C. Hayhurst, who coached Glendale High
Track and football.
Albert, Bame, Block, Herman, Reinhard, Schroeder, Stones and
Wykoff all attended Glendale High, while Davis and Irwin attended
Hoover High.
Albert quarterbacked Glendale to a CIF football title in
1937, and then led Stanford to the Rose Bowl championship.
He was a consensus All-American at Stanford in 1940-41 and later
starred and coached for the San Francisco 49ers of the All-America
Conference and the National Football League.
Bame made All-CIF as a guard of Glendale High and then was
a two-time All-American linebacker at USC, including the perfect
season and national championship year of 1962. The Trojans
also won the Rose Bowl that season.
Block was All-CIF at Glendale High and later broke scoring
records at USC. He was played with several NBA teams after
starting his pro career with the Lakers. He is currently
with the Chicago Bulls.
Davis won CIF titles in the high and low hurdles and was
Southern California track athlete of the year in 1j949. He
won both State hurdles races and then broke records at USC. Twice
he won Olympic Games silver medals at Helsinki in 1j952 and at
Melbourne in 1956.
Herman was a standout in football, baseball and track at
GHS prior to embarking on a pro baseball career in 1921. He
holds the Dodger season batting average record of .393 in 1930 and
before that batted .381 in 1929. His lifetime major league
average was .324 for 12 years and 1,552 games.
Juno Irwin Stover competed in four Olympic Games, winning a
bronze medal in 1952 and a silver in 1956. She also had two
seconds in the platform event in the 1955 and 1959 Pan American
Games. She was elected to Citizens Savings Diving Hall
of Fame.
Reinhard was a member of GHS 1937 CIF title team and then
was an All-American tackle at California in 1940-41. He was
an all-pro tackle with the L.A. Dons of the AAC and the L.A. Rams
of the NFL. Like Albert, he was named to the Citizens
Savings Hall of Fame.
Schroeder won the U.S. and Wimbledon titles in 1942 and
1949 and was runner-up to Dick Gonzales at Forest Hills in '49.
He also played on six U.S. Davis Cup teams and shared three U.S.
doubles with Jack Kramer.
Stones is the current world record holder in the high jump
at 7-6 5/8 and was the national interscholastic record holder at
Glendale High. He was the youngest U.S. medal winner in the
1972 Olympic when he was third at Munich. Stones attended
UCLA where he set the school record. He is a former National
AAU champion.
Wykoff, coached by Hayhurst, made the first of four Olympic
teams as a high school student in 1928. He won the 100, 220
and long jump in the State meet in 1927 set the world 100-yard
dash record while at USC when he ran 9.4 in 19j30. He
anchored the winning 400-meter relay teams in two Olympics, the
later consisting of Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe and Foy Draper at
Berlin in 1936.
The selection committee consisted of Bill Schroeder, Citizens
Saving Athletic Foundation managing director; Brave Dyer Jr.,
Schroeder's associates, and Al Ames, News-Press sports editor and
member of the Citizens Savings Board since 1952.
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