Show Sports b iff thoughts rin Nineteen years at one school and fifteen school years as a basketball coach Is a rare item This school year is the final year as a teacher and a basketball coach at Vernal Junior High School for Marland Stagg Stagg will be teaching driver education at Uintah High School in the 79 1978 school year Stagg joined the Vernal Junior High teaching staff which was known as Ashley Valley Junior High in the fall of 1959 1939 Stagg taught geography and driver education in 1959 A portion of a story about new junior high teachers in 1959 follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on August 20 1959 Eight new teachers along with regular faculty members will wUl be on hand to welcome students and give them as much individual help as possible Tommy Freestone who has been away attending school all summer will serve the students as a full time full time counselor Teachers new to Ashley Valley Junior High this year are Jess Hullinger vice principal and teacher David physical education and science Pat Bruce physical education and health Ted H Hatch science and math Everett Pitt science Marland Stagg geography and driver education Laurence Woodard english and speech and Deloy Abplanalp Art Stagg began his coaching career Inthe in inthe inthe the 64 1963 school year when the head basketball coach David needed some help Stagg coached the and grade in his first year of coaching didn't come back the next year and so Marland Stagg became the head basketball coach in inthe inthe inthe the 65 1964 school year Marland Stagg's record during his 15 years of coaching at Vernal Junior High is wins and losses The record includes and grade games Stagg has been the head coach for 14 years His grade teams have competed in the Craig Tournament 11 times Vernal has won the Craig Tourney five times Vernal's grade teams have clashed in the Uintah Basin Tournament Tournament Tournament Tour Tour- 14 times winning eight times Stagg's best year at Vernal Junior High was the 68 1967 team His grade team had an undefeated season of 13 Members of the 68 1967 grade squad were Lowell Aycock George Ceorge Long Mitchell Clark Lodee Magee Charles Walker Danny Oaks Craig Hart Steve Rosene Terry Johnson Jonnie Snyder Edgar Jones and Tim Hadlock A portion of Kitten Kalls KalIs which was printed in the Vernal Express on January 25 1968 follows as it was written by Collen and Sheila Merkley Tim Hadlock stalwart center on Vernal's Vernais basketball team sparked the team to an easy win 56 36 over West Junior High Wednesday of last week Another story about the Vernal Junior High 68 1967 basketball team follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on March 21 1968 Score Tourney Wins Vernal Junior Highs High's grade won the Roosevelt Basketball Tournament held at West Jr High Monday and Wednesday of last week Monday Vernal beat Altamont by a score of 69 to 32 Wednesday night Vernal beat Roosevelt for the tournament championship championship cham cham- by a score of 54 to 37 March 1 and 2 Vernal grade played in a tournament held at Craig Colorado This tournament consisted of teams from Craig Steamboat Springs Meeker Rifle Leadville Glenwood Springs Rangely and Vernal Vernal Jr High won the tournament with the following scores Vernal 50 Rangely 46 Vernal 68 Rifle 60 and Vernal 53 and Steamboat Springs 50 SO Tim Hadlock of Vernal was named the most outstanding player of the Craig Tournament In the three games played Tim scored 96 points for an average of 01 32 points per game In the 13 games played this year Tim has scored a total of points for a average per game When this team was graders they had a record of 6 wins and 1 loss and they won the Meeker Tournament When they were graders they had a record of 8 a wins and 1 loss and they placed third in the Meeker Tournament Tournament Tour Tour- This year as graders they won both the Craig and the Roosevelt Tournament and ended the season with 13 wins and 0 losses record Over a three year period this team has had a record of 27 wins and 2 losses Stagg's grade number two record is a 3 15 mark by the 77 1976 Vernal team Members of the team were Rod Anderson Burke Buckalew Derrin Gardiner Ron Ellis Joe Gardiner Brent Labrum Ron Gardner Marty McCarrel John Merkley Kim Reid David Stone and aud Clark McClellan A portion of an article about the 1976 77 71 team earn follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on January 21 l 1 1977 The Vernal Junior High grade basketball team improved its record to 8 0 by downing rival arch Roosevelt Junior High 62 to 53 U to Vernal last Friday Scoring points for Vernal were Ron Ellis EUis 27 27 John Merkley 13 Clark McClellan 9 Derrin Gardiner 4 Ron Gardner 4 Burke Buckalew 4 and Marty McCarrel 1 1 Marland Stagg remarked We had a lot of good kids before and after the 68 1967 school year I just want to move to something else Its It's a chance to do something different Ive I've enjoyed every minute of it coaching I really appreciate ap ap- ap predate all the kids I worked with The school 15 year coaching mark by Marland Stagg is the longest that any individual has coached in Vernal Stagg also has kept score or operated the clock at Uintah High School for 18 years Stagg graduated from Uintah High School in 1951 He also graduated from BYU Stagg will be returning to his high school in the fall of 1978 as the driver education teacher and this is one of the subjects that he taught when he first joined Vernal Junior High School in 1959 |