Heidelberg Athletics Hall of Fame
The overwhelming success of the 1930 football season can be attributed to various factors; the most evident and essential was the coaching staff, consisting of T.R. Turney and C.B. Schuchardt, both mentors of the younger coaching school. They initiated their first college coaching program during the past year; their untiring efforts, together with a broad understanding of athletic fundamentals and the proper way of handling aspiring athletics, contributed to the unforgettable season.
The second reason for the past memorable year can be chalked in favor of the team as a whole. The Princes cooperated to the limit, to the suppression of all selfish individualism. Machine-like precision in the execution of plays was the result of cooperative teamwork on the part of every man on the squad.
At the conclusion of the season the sport followers in the Midwest found Heidelberg among the six undefeated teams in the U.S. Amassing a scoring total of 290 points against their opponents’ 20, Heidelberg boasts the fourth highest offensive record and the finest defensive record in the country. H.C. avenged the three defeats of 1929 in a most astounding and satisfying way. Tripped the highly touted Ohio Wesleyan, Wittenberg, and John Carroll clubs, the team accomplished a feat that no other Ohio Conference team was able to duplicate. Heidelberg now holds a record of no defeats in the Conference since the 1927 season. Several of the leading sport writers of the country credit Heidelberg with having the greatest team in Ohio’s history.
Heidelberg 25 at Ohio Wesleyan 13
Heidelberg 28 Ohio State Reserves 0
Heidelberg 12 at Wittenberg 7
Heidelberg 56 at Toledo 0
Heidelberg 45 Ohio Northern 0
Heidelberg 57 Adrian 0
Heidelberg 26 at Akron 0
Heidelberg 41 John Carroll 0
(This profile appeared in the 2017 Hall of Fame Program. Â It is an excerpt of the synopsis of 1930 Football Team, taken from 1932 Aurora Yearbook.)
