Coaching, year-by-year

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I’ve typed up everything I have in regards to Wyoming high school football coaches. If you’ll look on the individual team pages now, each season will have the year, the record and (now) the coach listed. I’m still missing the bulk of the coaching records for Cokeville, Hanna, Lander, Ten Sleep and Wyoming Indian, as none of those four programs had their coaching lists as part of the now-famous 1994 Shrine Bowl program (see below).

Other schools, including Green River, Guernsey-Sunrise, Jackson, Lingle, Lyman, Pinedale, Tongue River and Torrington, have big gaps of at least four consecutive years where their coaches are still lost in the annals. If you are thumbing through the listings and you see a name you can add/correct, please let me know: pschmiedt@yahoo.com.

Also, I’m still missing all the coaching records for the now-defunct programs, as the 1994 Shrine Bowl program only listed current programs (which is why Hanna wasn’t listed, because they didn’t field a team in 1993).

It’s yet another layer to my ever-growing project here, but I’m getting a kick out of it. Check out your team’s page to make sure I’m right. 🙂

–patrick

Coaching search…

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So my latest little side project is compiling all the coaches from 1994-2008. I’m already pretty much set from 1936-93 (see the blog post below this one), so now my task is bringing the list up to date.

Thanks to the resources I have available to me at work, it’s been pretty easy to compile the list. However, I don’t know who was coaching at the following schools in the following years:

Douglas 1998

Jackson 1998

Newcastle 1994, 1995 and 1998

Greybull 1994

Burlington 1998

Guernsey 1994

Meeteetse 1998

If there’s any way anyone can help me fill in those questions, I’d appreciate it. Just comment on this post or shoot me an e-mail to pschmiedt@yahoo.com.

Hopefully, within the next couple months, I’ll find some time to start posting the coaches for each season along with the teams’ season records.

–patrick

Holy wow… 1994 Shrine Bowl program

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We’ve got several old Shrine Bowl programs floating around the office, and since I’m working on a Shrine Bowl side project (more on that in a later post), I started thumbing through some of the old programs we have.

When I grabbed the 1994 program and started flipping pages…. well, my heart nearly stopped.

There it was: Year-by-year results for every team in the state, from 1936 through 1993. With the record, the coach and special achievements all listed.

For some moments in life, there are no words.

This was, without a doubt, one of my top two or three moments in the history of my little project. I literally started shaking. I had trouble catching my breath.

This is simply amazing.

I don’t know who went to all this work. I don’t know why this work got done, then got buried in one year’s Shrine Bowl program. I don’t know how I missed it the first time around and I don’t know how no one brought this to my attention sooner.

But, for now, all that matters is that I have it.

Now, thanks to this mine of new information, you’ll be seeing the names of coaches posted alongside teams’ season results. Hopefully, within the next couple months, most of this effort will be complete.

Clearly, I am indebted to whoever took the time to compile these in the first place. I don’t know who did it, although the head honcho of the Shrine Bowl back then, former Natrona coach Art Hill, probably played a big part in it. I owe him, or whoever led this compilation effort, a big thanks… and probably a fancy steak dinner with all the fixings.

So here it is, almost 2 a.m. and I can’t sleep. I’m way, way, way too excited for all the good that happened today.

–patrick

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