AHS Athletic
     Hall of Fame

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HAROLD DEBEE     GRADUATED 1928     CHARTER INDUCTEE 1967

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HAROLD DEBEE          AHS Class of 1928                  
           Harold DeBee won four varsity letters in football and captained the 1926 Alliance High School team.  In his four seasons, he missed just two minutes of play-these in his last game.
           He played semi-pro football with the Fairmount Bulls in 1929 and then with Akron Ellet in 1933.
          DeBee also won two varsity basketball letters in high school and later played with a number of area teams, including the Studebakers in 1929 and the Moose in 1931-32.
           Softball was another area of sports in which he excelled.  He started playing in adult leagues as a 13-year-old-member of the Hopkins Brass & Bronze team and continued the sport through 1937, playing for such teams as American Steel Foundry, Moose, White Rose, Trail’s End and St. Ann’s of Sebring.
            A referee for many years, he even coached a girl’s basketball team.
          DeBee’s athletic code was one he held all his life and taught his children to live by.  “His strength and goodness was the guiding force that enabled his wife and children to carry on after his death in 1950,” wrote a member of the family.
          DeBee was employed by the American Steel Foundry, 1927-1945, and the Alliance City Water Works, 1945-1949.