Recognition
There were girls and boys basketball teams at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as baseball for boys. Basketball was the only girls sport. In the late 1950s both boys and girls played soccer. In the 1960s golf arrived for boys.
- Boys basketball, Rutland Rotary Tournament champions 1928
- Boys basketball Vermont Junior tournament champions 1933 This team won the overall state championship two weeks later, the only small school to have ever achieved this. A St. Johnsbury sportswriter dubbed the team the "Red Rapiers" which was thereafter used as the school mascot.
- Unmarked baseball trophy 1930s?
- Unmarked trophy from Headmasters club 1935
- Boys basketball Junior Tournament champion. Headmasters club. No year (about 1935)
- Girls Basketball Champions, Conference B 1958
- Boys basketball champions, Class I 1959
- NBL soccer champions 1965
- State Golf Champions 1964, 1965, and 1966
A basketball coach at OHS from 1961 onwards, as well as at other schools, Dick Jarvis was inducted into the Vermont Coaches Basketball Hall of Fame.
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