Programs of a Sporting Nature Written June, 2018   Background: Here is a list of sports broadcasts on Oberlin College's campus radio station WOBC during my four years as a student there (1965-1969). I saved the station's Program Guide each week, and I've gone through that collection of listings to gather the information below.  Not all sports events may have been included.  Other documents have provided additions and corrections. The rows in italics represent Oberlin Digest, our news and commentary program broadcast nightly from 11:00 to 11:30 pm.  During my three semesters as WOBC's Sports Director, I generally hosted Friday's Digest, and if the topic was printed in the Program Guide I've listed it here.  The aim was to feature each varsity sport at least twice during its season, covering one or two teams each week with player and coach interviews, "actualities" taped on the scene, and commentary by our staff of experts. We also broadcast away games in certain sports.  (We didn't air home games; students could walk to those.)  The color-shaded rows represent 53 such broadcasts, 50 of them live.  (A couple of Saturday-afternoon Midwest College Hockey Association Tournament games had to be tape-delayed until after the live Metropolitan Opera.)  These game broadcasts were usually bracketed by pre-game and post-game shows from the studio, not listed here. As I recall, even though the documentation doesn't always show it, after my freshman year I was the play-by-play announcer for all football and basketball except January 6 and December 10, 1968.  The color code and number of broadcasts: Football 16 Basketball 31 Hockey 5 Lacrosse 1 And Yeoman Scoreboard was a studio show airing after a home football game.  Jeff Hanna and Larry Gellman analyzed the game (including interviews recorded at the stadium), and I reported other Saturday-afternoon Oberlin sports results plus football scores from around the nation.

M Y   F R E S H M A N   Y E A R 1965: 11:00 Fri 9/24 Football season preview Eddie Kaplan 1:50 Sat 10/2 @ Allegheny Meadville PA Ed Kaplan, Wendell Meeks 2:50 Sat 10/9 @ Otterbein Westerville OH Ed Kaplan, Wendell Meeks 2:50 Sat 10/30 @ Kenyon Gambier OH Ed Kaplan, Wendell Meeks 1:50 Sat 11/13 @ Wooster Wooster OH Jack Cooley, Wendell Meeks 7:50 Wed 12/1 @ Adrian Adrian MI Paul Lawn, Tom Thomas 7:50 Mon 12/6 @ Cleveland State Cleveland OH Ed Kaplan, Lee Benton 1966:   7:50 Wed 1/5 @ Western Reserve Cleveland OH Ed Kaplan 7:50 Sat 1/22 @ Heidelberg Tiffin OH Ed Kaplan, Tom Thomas 7:50 Sat 2/5 @ Capital Columbus OH Ed Kaplan, John Foley 7:50 Wed 2/9 @ Akron Akron OH Ed Kaplan, Tom Thomas 7:50 Sat 2/12 @ Denison Granville OH Ed Kaplan 7:50 Sat 2/19 @ Kenyon Gambier OH Ed Kaplan, Tom Thomas 7:50 Thu 2/24 vs Mount Union Ohio Conf. Tourney at Akron OH Ed Kaplan, Tom Thomas ~ Fri 2/25 vs Baldwin-Wallace Ohio Conf. Tourney at Akron OH ~ M Y   S O P H O M O R E   Y E A R 11:00 Thu 9/22 Season previews of soccer and cross-country 11:00 Fri 9/23 Football season preview 1:50 Sat 9/24 @ Hiram Hiram OH Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna 1:30 Sat 10/1 @ Carnegie Tech Pittsburgh PA Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna 5:00 Sat 10/8 Yeoman Scoreboard plus results of soccer at Akron and cross-country 11:00 Fri 10/14 Cross-country, soccer, football 11:00 Fri 10/21 A report on that afternoon's soccer game against Ohio University 2:20 Sat 10/22 @ Denison Granville OH Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna 11:00 Fri 10/28 Homecoming preview 5:00 Sat 10/29 Yeoman Scoreboard ~ ~ 11:00 Fri 11/4 A report from that afternoon's soccer game at Ohio Wesleyan 2:00 Sat 11/5 @ Ohio Wesleyan Delaware OH Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna 5:00 Sat 11/19 Yeoman Scoreboard ~ ~ 11:00 Fri 12/2 Season previews of swimming and ice hockey 7:50 Sat 12/3 @ Otterbein Westerville OH Tom Thomas, Paul Lawn 7:50 Wed 12/7 @ Ohio Wesleyan Delaware OH Tom Thomas, Larry Gellman 11:00 Fri 12/9 Fencing and wrestling 7:00 Sat 12/10 @ Ohio State Columbus OH Dan Brent, Lenny Leighton 1967:   11:00 Fri 1/9 How the Yeomen fared while you were on vacation 7:50 Sat 1/14 @ Case Institute of Technology Cleveland OH Tom Thomas, Paul Lawn 7:50 Tue 1/17 @ Muskingum New Concord OH Paul Lawn, Larry Gellman 11:00 Fri 1/20 Swimming's victory over Denison 7:50 Tue 2/7 @ Wooster Wooster OH Tom Thomas, Paul Lawn 7:50 Sat 2/11 @ Baldwin-Wallace Berea OH Tom Thomas, Paul Lawn 11:00 Fri 2/17 Results of tonight's hockey game against Bowling Green, plus bowling 7:50 Sat 2/18 @ Hiram Hiram OH Tom Thomas, Larry Gellman 6:50 Fri 3/3 vs Kenyon Ohio Conf. Tourney at Akron OH Tom Thomas, Larry Gellman 11:00 Fri 3/3 Fencing 11:00 Fri 3/10 Swimming season recap 6:50 Sat 3/11 vs Toledo (on 3½ hr delay) MCHA at Bowling Green OH Dan Brent, Gideon Schein 11:00 Fri 4/7 Baseball season preview 11:00 Fri 4/14 Golf 11:00 Fri 4/21 Lacrosse 11:00 Tue 4/25 Baseball highlights from Kenyon 11:00 Fri 5/19 Tennis, golf, and Ohio Conference track M Y   J U N I O R   Y E A R 5:00 Sat 9/23 Yeoman Scoreboard ~ ~ 5:00 Sat 9/30 Yeoman Scoreboard ~ ~ 1:50 Sat 10/7 @ Baldwin-Wallace Berea OH Jeff Hanna, Lee Beckett, Tom Thomas 1:50 Sat 10/14 @ Allegheny Meadville PA same, until I lost my voice 5:00 Sat 10/21 Yeoman Scoreboard ~ ~ 1:20 Sat 10/28 @ Kenyon Gambier OH Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna 11:00 Fri 11/03 Homecoming special ~ ~ 5:00 Sat 11/04 Yeoman Scoreboard ~ ~ 1:55 Sat 11/11 @ Wooster Wooster OH ~ 11:00 Wed 12/6 Hockey preview ~ ~ 7:50 Fri 12/8 @ Ohio State Columbus OH Gideon Schein, Bruce Ross 7:50 Sat 12/9 @ Heidelberg College Tiffin OH Tom Thomas, Larry Gellman 7:50 Wed 12/13 @ Denison Granville OH ~ 1968:   7:50 Thu 1/4 @ Adelbert Cleveland OH Tom Thomas 7:50 Fri 1/5 @ Bowling Green Bowling Green OH Gideon Schein, Bruce Ross 7:50 Sat 1/6 @ Capital Columbus OH re-created by Larry Gellman 7:50 Wed 2/14 @ Mt. Union Alliance OH Tom Thomas, Larry Gellman 7:50 Sat 2/24 @ Kenyon Gambier OH Larry Gellman, Tom Thomas ~ Thu 2/29 vs Kenyon Ohio Conf. Tourney at Berea OH ~ ~ Sat 3/2 vs Toledo (on tape delay) MCHA at Bowling Green OH ~ 1:50 Sat 5/11 @ Bowling Green Bowling Green OH Gideon Schein, Steve Kravitz M Y   S E N I O R   Y E A R 2:00 Sat 9/28 @ Hiram College Hiram OH Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna 2:00 Sat 10/5 @ Carnegie Tech Pittsburgh PA Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna 1:20 Sat 10/26 @ Denison Granville OH Tom Thomas, Jeff Hanna ~ Sat 11/9 @ Ohio Wesleyan Delaware OH   7:50 Tue 12/10 @ Case Tech Cleveland OH ~ 1969:   7:30 Sat 2/8 @ Wooster Wooster OH (taped highlights from Wednesday) 8:00 Sat 2/8 @ Baldwin-Wallace Berea OH Tom Thomas, Bob Steyer ~ Thu 2/27 vs Kenyon Ohio Conf. Tourney at Wooster OH  ~ ~ Fri 2/28 vs Wooster ~ ~ ~ Sat 3/1 vs Baldwin-Wallace championship game (B-W won) ~