Bissell Hall
In 1949, the then-relatively new Hill School wrestling program, guided by second-year coach Frank Bissell ’33, won its first National Prep championship. Twenty-two years later, in February of 1971, the Hill wrestling team hoisted its 17th National Prep championship trophy, the culmination of a dynasty which included 11-consecutive titles from 1949 until 1959. Bissell was at the helm for all 17 titles, retiring in 1973 with a career record of 212-66-4. Hill’s 17 National Prep titles ranks second all-time in the National Prep Championship’s history.
To commemorate this historic era, the Frank S. Bissell ’33 Hall was established to honor all 17 of Hill’s National Prep championship-winning teams, which include: 1948-49, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1951-52, 1952-53, 1953-54, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58 (2013 HOF inductees), 1958-59, 1960-61, 1962-63, 1963-64, 1964-65, 1967-68, and 1970-71.
![1948-1949]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307635/thehillorg/ynn86i1cypmpngtarxc1/1949.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307635/thehillorg/ynn86i1cypmpngtarxc1/1949.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307635/thehillorg/ynn86i1cypmpngtarxc1/1949.png","width":600}])
1948-1949
Back Row: Robert Leach, John Ferenbach (Manager), Bruce Mowery
Front Row: Carlton Colcord, Thomas Edson, Ehret Page (Captain), Andrew Kaul, Hudson Samson
![1949-1950]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307635/thehillorg/nbozyjhbp7mba8htzr3f/1950.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307635/thehillorg/nbozyjhbp7mba8htzr3f/1950.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307635/thehillorg/nbozyjhbp7mba8htzr3f/1950.png","width":600}])
1949-1950
Back Row: Mr. Bissell, Robert Davenport, Richard O’Shaughnessy, William Joyce, Ronald Horne, John Rupley (Manager)
Front Row: Karl Kirchoff, Joseph Atkins, Andrew Kaul (Captain), Maxwell Pearson, Colton Colcord
![1950-1951]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307635/thehillorg/rgbv0ijn8n4hlpoctt33/1951.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307635/thehillorg/rgbv0ijn8n4hlpoctt33/1951.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307635/thehillorg/rgbv0ijn8n4hlpoctt33/1951.png","width":600}])
1950-1951
Back Row: Carlton Colcord, Otis Keller, Alan Reed, Randolph Barton (Manager)
Front Row: Donald Spillman, Joseph Atkins, Andrew Kaul (Captain), Maxwell Pearson, Harold DeHaven
![1951-1952]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307635/thehillorg/dqfwaq8pq4jl7432xgdw/1952.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307635/thehillorg/dqfwaq8pq4jl7432xgdw/1952.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307635/thehillorg/dqfwaq8pq4jl7432xgdw/1952.png","width":600}])
1951-1952
Back Row: J. Worth David, Terry Hunter, Andrew Edmonds (Manager)
Front Row: John Huntsman, William Jemison, Maxwell Pearson (Captain), Robert Twining, Harold DeHaven
![1952-1953]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307635/thehillorg/qyvcv9e4ljgqydgsvlgu/1953.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307635/thehillorg/qyvcv9e4ljgqydgsvlgu/1953.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307635/thehillorg/qyvcv9e4ljgqydgsvlgu/1953.png","width":600}])
1952-1953
Back Row: John Huntsman, Robert Wynne, Tod Beebe, Christian Kirchhoff (Manger)
Front Row: Leon Harbold, Don Damuth, Maxwell Pearson (Captain), B. Lauriston Hardin, Andrew Fitch
![1953-1954]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307635/thehillorg/xxdqxfi596k3toypgyce/1954.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307635/thehillorg/xxdqxfi596k3toypgyce/1954.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307635/thehillorg/xxdqxfi596k3toypgyce/1954.png","width":600}])
1953-1954
Back Row: Melvin Feroe, John Tucker, David Lennox, Henry Stoever, John Wynne
Front Row: Andrew Fitch, Makota Tokioka, Leon Harbold (Captain), Mark Miller, Jon Jaspan
![1954-1955]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307635/thehillorg/usq7vyaiba2nqrhdrqv2/1955.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307635/thehillorg/usq7vyaiba2nqrhdrqv2/1955.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307635/thehillorg/usq7vyaiba2nqrhdrqv2/1955.png","width":600}])
1954-1955
Back Row: William Storm, John Tucker, David Lennox, John Wynne, Charles Seivard
Front Row: Melvin Feroe, Courtney Brown, Leon Harbold, Kuhrt Wieneke, H. Furness Taylor
![1955-1956]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/zphaj1wcidkduzbiy4yv/1956.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/zphaj1wcidkduzbiy4yv/1956.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/zphaj1wcidkduzbiy4yv/1956.png","width":600}])
1955-1956
Back Row: William Dyer, Lewis Wiley, R. Kent Frazier, Bruce Damuth, Hugh Dyer, William Storm, John Wynne, Albert Harrison, Donald Corriere
Front Row: Robert Chappell, Osvaldo Damas, Hiram Mersereau, Melvin Feroe (Captain), Stephen Trott, William Cochran, James Detrixhe
![1956-1957]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/epj4mixz13nsywfu4hso/1957.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/epj4mixz13nsywfu4hso/1957.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/epj4mixz13nsywfu4hso/1957.png","width":600}])
1956-1957
Front Row: Thompson Burnett, Charles Ellis, William Dyer, Donald Corriere, Hiram Mersereau, Robert Chappell, F. Willmott Williams (Manager)
Back Row: James Detrixhe, Kent Frazier, James Kelley, William Fox, Stephen Trott, John Wynne
![1957-1958]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/hpcehp2hac965azw0gl1/1958.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/hpcehp2hac965azw0gl1/1958.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/hpcehp2hac965azw0gl1/1958.png","width":600}])
1957-1958
Front Row: Peter Jones, F. Anthony Fiore, James Moffat, Charles Ellis, William Dyer, Hiram Mersereau, Robert Chappell, John Judis, F. Willmott Williams (Manager)
Back Row: W. Buffington Ward, Kenneth Rugh, James Detrixhe, William Fox, A. Dennis Merklinger, William Cochran, Kilburn Moore, George Kellner
![1958-1959]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/abvprl21toz4rtzfr1iz/1959.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/abvprl21toz4rtzfr1iz/1959.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/abvprl21toz4rtzfr1iz/1959.png","width":600}])
1958-1959
Back Row: David Dickey, C. Markel Becker, Whitney Beebe, Philip Wick, D. S. Stevens Schaff, Jay Jamison, Kenneth Rugh, David Herasimchuk, James Hazeltine
Front Row: H. Landis Gabel, James Moffatt, John Manock, Peter Jones, Robert Chappell, R. Jeremy Stowell, John Judis, John Clarke
![1960-1961]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/hfdqpdppitygcyuvpzl0/1961.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/hfdqpdppitygcyuvpzl0/1961.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/hfdqpdppitygcyuvpzl0/1961.png","width":600}])
1960-1961
Back Row: Robert Hartenstine, William O’Donnell, D. S. Stevens Schaff, John Taylor, Richard Armentrout, Edward Fenstermacher, Christopher Stowell, John Parlin
Second Row: Christopher Wick, Lawrence Tice, Frank Lukus, James Moffatt, Roger Olesen, Thomas Fader, Thomas Gale
Front Row: Thomas Christy, Robert Harper
![1962-1963]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/cycydtc7il0swidrgqoc/1963.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/cycydtc7il0swidrgqoc/1963.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/cycydtc7il0swidrgqoc/1963.png","width":600}])
1962-1963
Front: Thomas Fader (Captain)
Front Row: Geoffrey Henson, Malcolm McAlpin, Robison Harley, Carl Pfeiffer, Eric Gould, John Stephenson, Thomas McCaslin, John Weber
Back Row: Michael Hazzard (Manager), Wayne Wentz, Charles Powers, Henry Koren, Wayne Titus, Robert Hartenstine, Carmichael Fels
![1963-1964]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/abkrfmzsechjeorfqbfr/1964.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/abkrfmzsechjeorfqbfr/1964.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/abkrfmzsechjeorfqbfr/1964.png","width":600}])
1963-1964
Front Row: John Frondorf, John Weber, Geoffrey Henson, Wayne Wentz, Thomas McCaslin, Warren Humes, Paul Dahlgreen
Back Row: Robison Harley, Thomas Stanko, Mark Birdsall, Milton Dillon, Bevan Alvey, James Weber, Clay McEldowney
![1964-1965]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307636/thehillorg/cvtui5ounlkkdw1ste83/1965.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307636/thehillorg/cvtui5ounlkkdw1ste83/1965.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307636/thehillorg/cvtui5ounlkkdw1ste83/1965.png","width":600}])
1964-1965
Front Row: John Weber, Clay McEldowney, Geoffrey Henson, Thomas McCaslin
Middle Row: James Weber, Mark Birdsall, Thomas Stanko, Richard Voliva, Warren Humes
Back Row: Matthews Williams, Nicholas King, Bevan Alvey, David Scanlon, Walter Price, F. Barton Harvey, Blair Tatman (Manager)
![1967-1968]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690307637/thehillorg/cj1q3taabichsy4waokd/1968.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690307637/thehillorg/cj1q3taabichsy4waokd/1968.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690307637/thehillorg/cj1q3taabichsy4waokd/1968.png","width":600}])
1967-1968
Front Row: Richard Cassel, Robert Schenk, Martin Hayden, Wade Cook, Anthony DuBon
Middle Row: Hale, Robert Spalding, Chapman LeBlond, Michael Stahovich, Brennan, Robert Rand (Manager)
Back Row: Christopher Kuntze, David Rabold, William Benedict, William Fox, Frank Reisner
![1970-1971]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1690380815/thehillorg/twbik159l1hnluzjpyww/1971.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1690380815/thehillorg/twbik159l1hnluzjpyww/1971.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1690380815/thehillorg/twbik159l1hnluzjpyww/1971.png","width":600}])
1970-1971
Kneeling: J. Thomas Moore
Front Row: Biello, Doug Schutte, John Bodley, Boris Holmes, Greg Penny
Back Row: George Baker, Cyrus Wert, Jeffrey Moely, Steve Bissell, George Braddock