This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Greatest Metro area male high school athlete debate sparks fan picks
An 1980 Cedar Rapids Marion High School sports feature invites readers to vote on the region’s top male high school athlete across football basketball wrestling tennis and more. Notables cited include John Jacobs III Bill Fitch Orville Rust and Les Hipple among others with strong memories of local legends and multi sport stars from Franklin Washington Marion and Immaculate Conception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metro Area
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Mike Chapman
Ogden
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Metro
John Jacobs III
Iowa
Immaculate Conception
John
Jacobs
Iowa Seniors Golf Association
Iowa City
Bill Fitch
Boston Celtics
Orville Rust
Old Washington High School
Franklin
New Washington High
Orville
al Eddy
John Culver
United State
Frank Jacubek
Eddy
Jacubek
Waite High School
Ohio
Rust
Ohio State
Wes Fester
University of Iowa
Paul Foster
Art Swartzendruber
Don
Walt Kinch
Walt
Jim Battin
Peter Schwin
Jack Coleman
Duane Emmerson
Army
West Point
Bruce Kohl
Dick Dickson
Bill Shuttleworth
Bill Quinby
Quinby
National Football League
Dick Farmer
Bob Hoff
Bob Tordik
Lou Ginsberg
Pete Kanellis
Franklin High
Les Hipple
Marion High School
Dick Rozek
Rozek
American Legion
Cleveland Indians
Bob Feller
the Legion
Philadelphia
Bob
Dutch” Coon
Frank Tvrdik
Legion
Frank
Tom Farmer
Bob Hurych
Wayne Bruce
Ray Petrzelka
Bob Jennings
Frank Simonovich
Ken Charipar
Bob Moore
Hal Trosky
Hipple
Hugh Leffingwell
Ron Altenberg
Lloyd Olmstead
Hugh
Leffingwell