DeVilbiss High School (Toledo, Ohio)

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Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School was a public high school in Toledo, Ohio, United States from 1931 to June 1991. It served the Old Orchard neighborhood of the city and was part of the Toledo Public School District. The building still sits at 3301 Upton Avenue near the Central Avenue intersection.

The DeVilbiss Tigers were members of the Toledo City League and donned the colors of orange and black. The school colors however, were the colors of the rainbow. Hence the yearbook was the pot of gold. The school newspaper/newsletter was the Prism. Their main rivals were the Start Spartans, although rivalries existed with the St. Francis Knights and the Libbey Cowboys, whom they used to annually play football against on Thanksgiving day.

Due to a declining enrollment and low finances, DeVilbiss was closed along with Macomber and Whitney high schools by TPS at the end of the 1990-1991 school year. Chris Denman was the last student/athlete to represent the school when he was selected to compete in the TMBCA All-Star Game for baseball on June 6th, 1991

[edit] OHSAA Championships / State Championships

Boys Cross Country: 1970
Boys Golf: 1940, 1950
Boys Track & Field: 1946, 1987

[edit] Toledo City League Championships

Baseball: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1950, 1954, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1980
Boys Basketball: 1934-35, 1935-36, 1943-44, 1949-50, 1951-52
Girls Basketball: 1983-84
Girls Cross Country: 1984
Football: 1938, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1973, 1974, 1989
Boys Track & Field: 1933, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989
Girls Track & Field: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989
Volleyball: 1977, 1984, 1986