New Book Available – Greyhound Legends
November 26, 2021
Our new book, Greyhound Legends, is now available for online ordering! You can find it along with our other books on the link below.
In the nineteenth century, students in the one-room schoolhouses around Carmel played a variety of sports at recess. In the 1860s and 1870s, shinny, town-ball and scrub were popular. Soccer was the game of choice in the 1880s, and a decade later, it was football. The champions of those long-forgotten games were just as proud of their victories on the schoolyard as any modern-day athlete. When the high school’s first team of record was organized in 1896, Carmel was the smallest town in the county. The basketball team played on grass courts and, later, the dirt floor of a lumberyard. In the late 1940s, Carmel had one of the best sprinters in the country but no track. A decade later, Carmel revived its football program but had to play its home games in a neighboring town because the school did not have a football field.
From these humble beginnings, Carmel developed into one of the premier athletic programs in the country. “Greyhound Legends” tells the history of the evolution of athletics in Carmel from the pioneer games played on the schoolyard to the fall season of 1981, when Carmel solidified its status as a state powerhouse. The book profiles legendary athletes, coaches and teams, including the basketball team that went to state in 1925, the story of Bill Stubbs – Carmel’s nationally recognized sprinter in the late 1940s, Dick Nyers’s transformation of the football program and his role in the founding of the Carmel Dad’s Club, and the remarkable careers of Billy and Dave Shepherd, Mark Herrmann, Eric Clark, Dick Dullaghan, Jim Belden and more.