Left to right: Capt Hayden Fouts, Raymond Miller, Robert Riley, Lewin Vermillion,  Paul “Beanie” Johnson, Coach Harry J. Barnhart.

The Speedboys had the best record (14-3) until the State tournament Final Four team. They had the highest scoring team to date (718 pts), and came with 62-points of doubling their 17 opponents. They, also, had the first pair of 200-point scorers: Ray Miller (232 pts) and Robert Riley (216 pts). Miller’s total broke Nip McHose’s single season record. Hayden Fouts, the Captain, was the number three scorer (81 pts). The Delaware game was the first radio broadcast of an AHS basketball game. Only a two-point overtime loss to Mansfield kept them from the NCO title. Sid Boyd called the last home game at the East Main St. Armory the strangest game in AHS history. Mansfield’s Russ Murphy refused to play the game because his team had just played in the State tournament. Barnhart appealed to H R Townsend, the OHSAA commissioner, who forced the game. Murphy retaliated by playing only scrubs, who had not played in the State tournament, and Ashland won in a blowout. Harry Barnhart after eight outstanding years and a record of 75-36 (.676) left for Findlay College. He departed with several Ashland athletes including: Fouts, Vermillion, Gongwer, Metzger, and later others like Chuck Morrison. The A’s had the widest margin of victory of any AHS team. They bested their opponents by 19.9 ppg.