

Their sport was softball
Triplett team went 16-1 in tough competition Here are members of the Triplett softball team which concluded one of its most successful...
Sep 2, 2023
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99 footballs on Harmon Field's birthday cake
Home of Bluffton High School football since 1924 Football at Bluffton High School goes so far back no one knows for certain when it...
Aug 23, 2023
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Meet the "never scored on" Bluffton Warriors
It's a community football team in 1910 Meet one of Bluffton’s earliest football teams. It’s the 1910 Bluffton Warriors, and as best we...
Aug 18, 2023
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Eight decades ago this winter
Meet the Bluffton College Beavers of 1941-42 Here’s the 1941-42 Bluffton College men’s basketball team. Back from left, Arthur Spiegel,...
Jul 24, 2023
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When the spitball was legal
Meet the players on the 1910-11 Bluffton High School baseball team; one of these players invented a machine gun used by the U.S. army in...
Jul 24, 2023
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When men's softball was king
Here’s the Triplett 1945 softball team. Front from left, Oliver Steiner, Kenneth Moser, Hubert Basinger, Donavin Moser, Ralph Augsburger,...
Jul 21, 2023
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55 track seasons ago
1968 squad won NWC and 3rd consecutive district Class A title This squad won the Class A district crown for the third consecutive year...
May 9, 2023
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'67 BHS track squad set the bar for future Pirate team
Covert led Pirates won the NWC, won Class A district; Oppermann won state shot put, mile-relay 3rd at state meet The 1967 Bluffton High...
May 4, 2023
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60 track seasons ago at Bluffton HS
Meet the boys' track team of 1963 1963 Bluffton High School boys’ track team Front from left, Dave Burkholder, Richard Bucher, Ken...
Apr 28, 2023
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Bluffton's boys of summer 56 seasons ago
This team of Pirates won the Class A sectional title Meet the Bluffton High School baseball team of 56 seasons ago. It’s the team of...
Apr 18, 2023
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50 track seasons ago at Bluffton HS
Meet the Pirate boys' track team of 1973 Meet the Bluffton High School boys’ track team of one-half century past. This team, in 1973, was...
Apr 11, 2023
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BHS track tradition reaching 100 seasons
The 1926 team was Bluffton's second-ever track team Bluffton High School's outstanding track and field tradition is closing in on 100...
Apr 4, 2023
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55 basketball seasons ago
This Pirate squad scored 103 points against Lima Perry Fifty-five seasons ago, these Pirates, with their black Red Ball Jets tennis shoes...
Mar 3, 2023
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She scored 58 points against Spencerville
In 1927 Bluffton HS athlete Olive Locher set a record never to be touched We’re putting it mildly to say Bluffton High School girls’...
Feb 21, 2023
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A great Bluffton football story for Super Bowl Sunday
It's all about Bluffton Beaver number 44 - Elbert Dubenion - 9 seasons with the Buffalo Bills VIDEOS AND PHOTOS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS...
Feb 9, 2023
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Who really won?
1959 Bluffton vs Lafayette - 64 seasons ago this month a one-point game became an enormous argument PHOTOS OF BOTH TEAMS AT THE BOTTOM OF...
Feb 3, 2023
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It's the '55-56 non-county champs
Ask Ron Geiser, Spike Berry, Ron Lora, Bill Herr, or Marvin Diller about this team's success Sixty-seven basketball season ago this...
Jan 24, 2023
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44 seasons ago this team went 7-3 in NWC
Bluffton High School girls' team of 1978-79 Here's the Bluffton High School girls' varsity basketball team from 1978-79 season. Front...
Jan 19, 2023
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Remembering Raymon Lewis 1940-2023
1950s-era Pirate all-star athlete in football, basketball and track Raymon Lewis - number 31 Raymon Lewis, who died on Jan. 3, 2023, at...
Jan 5, 2023
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Only 59 Pirate seasons ago
When this Varsity B photo was taken during the 1963-64 school year Here are members of the Bluffton High School Varsity B during the...
Dec 29, 2022
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