Updates: State basketball scores (and some Shrine Bowl)

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I finished researching the 1924 state basketball tournament, and posted it here, and now you can check out every score from every state basketball tournament, boys and girls. Well, almost every one — I’m still missing the score of the 1953 Class A consolation semifinal game between Rawlins and Reliance. Rawlins won it, but for the life of me I can’t find the score. Help!

Updates will be slower throughout the summer, as I will be concentrating my efforts on researching backward through time. I have researched through 1937, with the eventual (self-imposed) goals of reaching 1920 by the end of the summer and the 19th century by Christmas. And then I’ll be putting together that book thingy…. Keep checking this blog for more details on that project.

Newsbreak: Shrine Bowl recaps from the Cody Enterprise, Douglas Budget and Kemmerer Gazette.

–patrick

Five Minute Introduction (times four): Encampment, Manville, Normative Services, Worland Institute

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School: Encampment
Nickname: Tigers
Colors: red and black
Stadium: Unknown
State championships: None
Times worth remembering: The 1990 season — Encampment’s last — was the only season in which the Tigers won more than one game. However, both wins came over Farson, one a 14-12 win early in the season, the other a forfeit win at the end of the season after the Pronghorns had disbanded.
Times worth forgetting: The close to the 1990 season wasn’t pleasant. After the win over Farson, Encampment was shut out four consecutive times and ended its program at the end of the season.

Encampment team page.

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School: Manville
Nickname: Panthers
Colors: blue and white
Stadium: Unknown
State championships: None
Times worth remembering: Manville’s best effort came in its undefeated 6-0 season of 1947, a season in which the Panthers beat Guernsey, Glenrock and Sunrise twice each. What set the Panthers apart was their defense, which gave up just two points in its first three games and gave up fewer than 11 points per game – a stellar defensive effort in the six-man football world. However, the victories might have come one year too early, as statewide six-man playoffs didn’t start until 1948.
Times worth forgetting: The Panthers’ final two seasons weren’t exactly encouraging. The team went 1-3-1 in 1952, Manville’s last full season, before canceling most of the 1953 season, save a 31-2 loss to Glendo.

Manville team page.

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School: Normative Services
Nickname: Wolves
Colors: maroon and silver
Stadium: Wolves Stadium
State championships: none
Times worth remembering: The Wolves’ two best seasons came in their first two years in pads. The 2000 team posted a 6-1 record in the regular season before bowing out to Southeast in the first round of the playoffs; the 2001 team went 6-2, then posted playoff road wins over both Burlington and Riverside before bowing to Cokeville in the state championship game.
Times worth forgetting: After its championship-game run in 2001, NSI had a disastrous 2002 season, finishing officially at 0-6. However, the Wolves only played three games, losing all three by wide margins, then forfeited three more after a case of food poisoning broke out at the Sheridan institution.

Normative Services team page.

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School: Worland Institute
Nickname: Unknown
Colors: Unknown
Stadium: Unknown
State championships: none
Times worth remembering: Only four victories by the Worland Institute, also known as Colter High, have been accounted for. Two came in 1957 — 19-13 over the Worland JV and 31-0 over the Lander JV. Worland Institute also knocked off Burlington 6-0 in 1959 and Meeteetse 7-0 in 1960.
Times worth forgetting: Pretty much every other game was tough for the Institute. The boys’ school squad had its toughest season in its final season, 1961, going 0-6 and losing every game by double digits.

Worland Institute team page.

Newsbreak: Shrine Bowl, camps

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Lander’s Hawk Cain weighs options at UW (Casper Star-Tribune). … Luke Knapton reps Laramie in Casper (Laramie Boomerang). … Lyman and Mountain View show progress in camps (Bridger Valley Pioneer).

–patrick

Updates: Goshen Hole, Burns, Saratoga… seeking a Hulett coach… and state basketball scores

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The late 1960s were a crazy time in the southeastern corner of Wyoming. Goshen Hole, the precursor to what is now Southeast, started its program in 1966, and Burns followed a year later. I spent a big portion of this week trying to track down more information on the first seasons of these two programs and found a couple games to update.

I added two games to Burns’ first season, both losses to the Pine Bluffs JV squad — 27-20 on Oct. 3 and 41-26 on Oct. 18. (These two losses extended Burns’ winless streak in that span to 24 games, a change updated on the streaks page.)

I also found the score for Goshen Hole’s 54-19 loss to Harrisburg, Neb., on Sept. 30, 1966, knocking it off the missing games list in the process.

My research also turned up two more new games, courtesy of the Byes Project. I added Huntley’s 33-6 loss to Lyman, Neb., sometime between Sept. 12-16, 1967 (added to the missing games list because I couldn’t pin down a date or a location) and Midwest’s 32-7 victory over Glendo on Sept. 3, 1965.

I also took care of two missing games for Saratoga’s 1955 season. I found the score, date and location for Saratoga’s 18-12 loss to the Rawlins JV on Oct. 4 and the score for Saratoga’s 13-0 loss to the Laramie JV on Oct. 13.

Coaches Project: I didn’t add any new coaches, but I did fix a couple discrepancies where I had two coaches coaching at two different schools in the same season.

I updated Green River’s coach in 1969; it was Chuck Shelton, not Jerry Hart. I had Jerry Hart listed as coaching in both Green River and Star Valley in 1969, so I double-checked and Hart was in Afton while Shelton had the reins in Green River.

I also ran into this problem with Rand Klatt, who I had listed as coaching both Pinedale and Hulett in 1965. I double-checked, and Klatt was in Pinedale that year. So now I’m looking hard to find out who Hulett’s coach was in 1965. So far, no luck. If you know, leave a comment below!

Basketball: I have updated the scores I was missing for the state basketball tournaments in 1923, 1925, 1929 and 1930. The years 1925, 1929 and 1930 didn’t need much research done for them, but 1923 had to be built up and researched basically from scratch. The year 1924 still need some additional research, but I hope to have that completed within the next couple weeks. We’ll see…. Click here to see this side project, every score from every state basketball tournament (except, obviously, for 1924).

–patrick