Missing coaches in the search

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After putting together the coaching project (see below), I still have a few gaps I need to fill in. I’m trying to do most of these myself, but if you can help me out, especially with the schools that have big gaps, I’d appreciate it.

This list does not include the fact that I’m missing the names of coaches for basically every single defunct program, too. So… if you can find coaches for Albin, Arvada-Clearmont, Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, St. Mary’s, Chugwater, Cowley, Dayton, Deaver-Frannie, Encampment, Farson, Glendo, Goshen Hole, Guernsey, Huntley, LaGrange, Manderson, Manville, Morton, North Big Horn, Pavillion, Ranchester, Reliance, St. Stephens, Snake River, Sunrise, Superior or Worland Institute, I will be glad to post those, as well.

I’m also missing first names for a ton of coaches, and if you can fill those in, that would be awesome. Take a look at the individual team pages to see where you might be able to help.

Here are the schools I’m missing coaches for and the years I need them for:

Burlington: 1958, 1998

Cokeville: All from 1951-79

Douglas: 1998

Green River: all from 1951-71

Greybull: 1951

Guernsey-Sunrise: All from 1963-66

Hanna: All from 1951-92, all from 1995-97

Hulett: 1955, 1961

Jackson: All from 1952-55, 1965, 1966, 1995, 1998

Lander: All from 1951-93

Lingle: All from 1951-69

Lyman: 1962, all from 1964-67, all from 1969-88

Meeteetse: 1987, 1998

Moorcroft: 1954, 1956

Mountain View: 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1979

Newcastle: 1995

Pinedale: 1951, all from 1953-72

Sundance: 1955

Ten Sleep: All from 1957-64, all from 1972-93

Tongue River: All from 1956-64

Torrington: 1951, 1952, all from 1960-64, 1966

Wheatland: 1971 and 1973

Wyoming Indian: All from 1972-92

–patrick

Hard at work

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I wrote three stories this week at work relating to the upcoming changes in Wyoming high school football.

Sunday’s story was about how the gate at the state football championships in November is the WHSAA’s big unknown.

Monday’s story was about Laramie’s preparation for the title games.

Tuesday’s story was a progress report on the new six-man division.

I also wrote a short story about the Shrine Bowl and its commitment to stay in Casper.

Check them out.

–patrick

All-state football teams: 1972 through 1977

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All-state teams from 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977 have been added to the all-state page.

The 1972 and 1973 Class A all-state teams are MIA.

I also tried to find the all-state teams from 1971 but came up completely, utterly empty. I’m afraid that 1971 might be some kind of magical cut-off for all-state teams but that’s probably just my paranoia. So if you have one of those missing all-state Class A teams from ’72 or ’73, or anything from 1971, let me know.

–patrick

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

Some changes… mostly stuff only I care about

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The site was down for a couple hours this morning as I switched Web hosts. I made the process much more complicated than it needed to be, but thanks to my wife’s troubleshooting expertise, the site is back up and mostly back to normal.

I lost a couple things in the transfer, namely blog comments. If you’ve left a comment on a post here in the past, it’s gone.

Also, some of the blog posts on here are in a weird order…. mostly because I had to re-load all my blog post one-by-one and not all of them had the right timestamp on them.

I changed Web hosts to hopefully make the site less hacker-friendly. I was hacked a half-dozen times in the last two and a half years with my old host, so I’m hoping this new one will work out better and more securely. That said, if you see anything weird or out of place, let me know at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.

Now I can get back to the fun stuff — the football.

–patrick

All-state updates: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981

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I’ve added the bulk of the all-state football teams from 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981 to the all-state page. I couldn’t find the Class AA and Class A all-state teams from 1979, though. The microfilm of the Star-Tribune I was using had several missing dates in late November, generally the time the all-state teams were/are released. I’ll continue the search….

Anyway, check it out. Lots of familiar names.

–patrick

1982-84 all-state football teams

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I’ve added the all-state teams from 1982, 1983 and 1984 to the all-state page. Not all of them are available — I’m still trying to track down the 1982 Class A and the 1984 Class 1A teams. If you have those available, let me know.

–patrick