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In the Roane County Library, there is a copy of every single yearbook of Spencer High School.  The Genealogical Society and Steven Cooper both have nearly a full collection, too.

Spencer hosted the first band encampment in West Virginia; the students lived in tents, ate from a cook shack; it was the predecessor to the modern day Band Camp.

Spencer is home to US Army Colonel Ruby G. Bradley, nurse and WWII POW; she is recognized as the most decorated woman in the Army.

Baseball was Spencer’s first interscholastic sport in 1912. The school would not allow the students to play football until 1914, when prospective players brought in permission slips.

Spencer’s first football game was against Ravenswood, who also initiated the sport in 1914. The Red Devils would become Spencer’s Thanksgiving Day opponent in the 1920s.

Spencer’s first athletic teams were known as the Cliff Dwellers. The football team was generally known as the Yellowjackets by 1921.

The local newspapers attempted to change Spencer’s mascot to a Spartan in 1940. The Roane County Reporter explained that the Yellowjacket nickname dated from when the school colors were yellow and white and did not fit anymore. The nickname was used only for a year or two.

Spencer’s first conference affiliation was with the Little Four Conference in 1944. The league was made up of the seven schools that played football in Calhoun, Jackson, Roane and Wirt Counties. The Yellowjackets had tried to join the Little Mountaineer Conference in the late 1930s but these plans were never realized.

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