A look at Asheville High's first football title follows, taken from the 1922 Yearbook. (Asheville later won the state men's basketball championship the same year). Click on the pictures to enlarge.    The football team of 1922 will always be remembered and will go down in the High School’s history as the best team that ever represented the school. This year fully fifty men reported at the beginning of the season, and three teams were selected from this squad. At times it was very difficult to determine the first and second teams, but finally the squad was narrowed down to seventeen first-string men.

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   This season was the most successful of any since the High School has ever participated in athletics. This team is the first to bring home the State Championship, and we are very proud of them. Our boys started out at the beginning of the season to win, and win they did! They never lost a single game and o­nly tied two. O­ne was a tie with Knoxville, Tennessee, the Champions of Tennessee, and the other with Bingham, a local prep school. It was said by all football fans who saw our boys play that our team was the best high school team they ever saw, This team was under the captaincy of Philip Atkinson, a star player of two years. Those who were greatly responsible for this year’s success were Head Coach B.S. Frei, and Assistant Coaches Naiman, Hunt and Huddleston.

    The business men and women of this city got together and with the aid of local clubs made it possible for each of the first seventeen men to be presented with a gold football. These were presented to the boys by our Mayor, Mr. Roberts. The student body backed the team o­ne hundred per cent!

OUR TEAM
Name	Nickname	Position
Philip Atkinson	"Phil"	End
Jack Felmet	"Fat"	Guard
Jack Smith	"Cowboy"	Center
Harold Weir	"Hal"	Guard
Charles Zimmerman	"Yidish"	Tackle
William Stradley	"Bill"	Tackle
Robert Finley	"Snag"	End
Ralph James	"Jesse"	Quarter Back
Charles Chakales	"Shag"	Fullback
Guy Green	"Race Hoss"	Halfback
Andrew Brandl	"Red"	Halfback
William Fitzgerald	"T.N.T."	End
Harold McLean	"Mack"	Fullback
Howard Frady	"Pete"	End
Andrew Tucker	"Andy"	Quarter Back
Weldon Weir	"Bud"	End
Benjamin Humphries	"Ben"	Center

SCRUBS

    The scrubs aided materially in rounding the team into shape. Some of them are looming up as possible Varsity men next year. They included F. Finley, E. Chakales, I. Black, C. Baughm, R. Worley, W. Moore, C. Pritchett, E. Atkinson, and H. Johnson.

GAMES PLAYED

Blue Ridge	0		42
Asheville School	0		14
C. M. N. A.	7		24
Knoxville	0		0
Charlotte	0		13
Christ School	0		34
Salisbury	0		47
Bingham	6		6
Monroe	6		20
New Bern	6		17
TOTAL	25		212

The second team played the following :

Waynesville	0		86
Christ School	0		56
TOTAL	0		142

State Championship, December 16, 1922.

Article reprinted from 1922 yearbook.