K-W YMCA Volleyball Team Ontario Senior Open Champions

Carl Dunke, Jim McLeod, Alson Weber, Delton Kropf, Henry Ehns, Arthur Youngman, Tom Armour – Physical Director YMCA, Lloyd Current, Morton Devitt.

This team represented the K-W YMCA for the period 1934 to 1940. During that period, along with winning the Ontario Senior Open Championship each year, they won the Eastern Canadian Championship on the 3 occasions that it was held. They also won numerous International Tournaments involving Ontario and New York State teams, and in 1939, they competed in the United States National Championships in Detroit. They were defeated by Houston, Texas, the team that eventually won the USA National Championship.

Other persons who played on this team for short periods during the championship years 1932 to 1946 were: Karl Hoffman, Ed Wackett, Herb Schaus, Harold Ballantyne, Jack Hemphill, Ira Good, Lou Anderson, Nelson Beilstein, Russ Bricker and Jim Detweiler.