This F&M Team Rushed To 6-2 Record In 1938

Published Oct. 18, 2010 10:02 p.m. ET

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With college football season in high gear, Lancaster County Retired Senior Judge Wilson Bucher sent us this photo.

He wrote:

"I thought some older readers might remember the Franklin & Marshall football teams in the '30s. The 1938 season saw F&M win six and lose two. One of the losses was to Army at West Point. Army won in the last quarter.

"The team captain, Sam Roeder, was admitted to the 1938 'Little All-America 11.' ''

Those pictured are:

Front row, from left, Irvin, Bell, Jarrett, Montz, Uhrinyak, Shaffer, Lieter, Friedberg, Holmes, Schibanoff and Simpson.

Middle row, from left, Coach Holman, Flowers, Lippy, Maza, Ferrari, Asplin, Roeder, Allison, Fox, Rieben, Kenny, Irvin, Coach Barr.

Back row, Manotti, Suchena, Thomas, Ivers, Bodnar, Stoner, Schriver.

The Coach Barr on the photo is J. Shober Barr, who attended Lancaster Boys' High School and earned his bachelor's degree from F&M in 1924. He earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1932.

In 1926, he returned to his alma mater to coach freshmen. From 1930-42, he was varsity football line coach and varsity basketball coach as well as director of intramural athletics and instructor in physical education. From 1942-49 he served as dean of freshmen and director of admissions.

In 1949, Barr was named F&M's director of athletics and professor of physical education; he held both posts until his retirement in 1963.

He died in 1989 at the age of 91. Judge Bucher graduated from F&M in 1942.