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Warren Western Reserve High School was a public high school serving grades 9-12 in Warren, Ohio, United States, from 1966-1990. Construction was completed and it opened in the Fall of 1966[1][2]. It served as the second public high school in the Warren City Schools District to alleviate overcrowding at Warren G. Harding High School.  The school was located at 200 Loveless Ave. Warren Western Reserve’s athletic teams were called the Raiders and competed in the North East Ohio Conference.  The school’s name is derived from Warren Ohio’s historical status as the capital of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Warren Western Reserve High School is not to be confused with Western Reserve High School in Berlin Center, OH or Western Reserve High School in Collins, OH, which both still exist.

Sports Notoriety

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Warren Western Reserve won Ohio’s very first state football playoff championship in 1972[3]. In the fall of 1972, The Ohio High School Athletic Association began using a playoff system to determine Ohio’s high school football champion in each of three classes, based on enrollment. Warren Western Reserve defeated Cincinnati Princeton to win the very first Class AAA (largest enrollment) state championship with a perfect 12-0 record. Members of that team included future NFL players Ross Browner, Jim Browner, and Aaron Brown. The Browner family had six brothers, four of which played in the NFL[4].

A significant rivalry quickly developed between Warren Western Reserve and Warren Harding in all sports, but most notably in football, and resulted in four consecutive football championships from 1971-1974 between Warren’s two high schools[5].  The schools played each other in football 22 of the 24 years of Warren Western Reserve’s existence, beginning in the Fall of its third year, 1968. Harding won the Associated Press Poll[6] championship in 1971, Western Reserve won the OHSAA playoff championship in 1972 and the Associated Press Poll in 1973, and Harding won the OHSAA playoff championship in 1974.

Closure

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The school ceased operating as a high school in 1990, and Harding once again became the only public high school in the Warren City Schools District.  When the school closed, a concession was made by the school district to exchange Warren Harding’s teams from the Panthers with red-white colors to Western Reserve’s Raiders with their gold-white colors.  Harding’s teams have been the Raiders since the fall of 1990. The facility was temporarily used as a junior high school, serving grades 7-8, but was eventually shuttered and then demolished completely in August, 2010[7]. The Raider Pride Park Committee has worked to preserve a lasting memory of Warren Western Reserve and its legacy with a memorial which was placed on the grounds of Harding High School[8].

Notable alumni

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  • Ronald Parise[9], NASA astronaut, Class of 1969
  • Ross Browner[10], former NFL player, Class of 1973
  • Aaron Brown, former NFL player, Class of 1974
  • Jim Browner[11], former NFL player, Class of 1975
  • Note: Browner family brothers Joey Browner, former NFL player, and Keith Browner, former NFL player, both played high school football at WWR, but ultimately graduated from Southwest High School in Atlanta GA after the family relocated.

References

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  1. ^ ""Construction of Western Reserve High School, 1966". (A)". Trumbull Memory Project, Warren-Trumbull County Public Library. trumbullmemory.org. Retrieved September 29, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ ""Construction of Western Reserve High School, 1966." (B)". Trumbull Memory Project, Warren-Trumbull County Public Library. trumbullmemory.org. Retrieved September 29, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ ""Past State Tournament Results" (Football)" (PDF). Ohio High School Athletic Association, ohsaa.org. Retrieved September 29, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Archdeacon, Tom (November 19, 2023). ""The legacy of one of Ohio's greatest sports families"". Dayton Daily News, www.daytondailynews.com. Retrieved October 1, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Carey, James (2022). West Side Pride: The Cross-Town Rivalry That Created Four Consecutive Championship Seasons. Emerald Bay, LLC. pp. 29–35. ISBN 979-8-9864519-0-9.
  6. ^ "All-Time Association Press Poll Champions (Football)" (PDF). Ohio High School Athletic Association, ohsaa.org. Retrieved October 1, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Runyan, Ed (April 26, 2010). ""Old Warren high school faces wrecking ball"". The Vindicator. vindyarchives.com. Retrieved October 2, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Coupland, Bob (September 26, 2021). ""Raider group, schools to share in memorial"". Tribune Chronicle, tribtoday.com. Retrieved September 23, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ ""Payload Specialist Bio: Ronald A. Parise"" (PDF). NASA, www.nasa.gov. Retrieved September 29, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ ""Football legend dies"". Tribune Chronicle, tribtoday.com. January 6, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ ""Warren sports legend Jimmie Browner Jr. dies"". Tribune Chronicle, tribtoday.com. March 16, 2024. Retrieved September 29, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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