The Coaches Project is coming along well. I’ve recently made additions to the coaching lists for Basin, Big Horn, Byron, Clearmont, Cokeville, Dayton, Deaver-Frannie, Gillette, Greybull, Hanna, Hulett, Jackson, Lander, Lingle, Manville, Moorcroft, Ranchester, Rawlins, Reliance, Riverton, Sundance, Superior, Thermopolis, Torrington and Worland. Check out those individual team pages to see the changes.

Take a look at the Coaches Project list to see what I’m still missing… and to see if you can help! For 1960 forward, I’m only missing a 11 coaches from eight schools: Arvada-Clearmont’s coach in 1962, Cokeville’s coach in 1975, Cowley’s coach in 1963, Deaver-Frannie’s coach in 1970, Goshen Hole’s coach in 1966, Huntley’s coaches for 1965 through 1968, Superior’s coach in 1961 and Worland Institute’s coach in 1961. The 1950s and 1940s are a bit more spotty, and anything prior to 1936 needs lots of help. Anyway, check it out and see if you can connect any missing years with some names.

I also knocked two games off the missing games list. I found the missing score for Cowley’s 62-37 loss to Lodge Grass, Mont., on Oct. 1, 1954 and the score for Byron’s 31-0 victory over Cowley on Sept. 26, 1947.

–patrick

School: Huntley
Nickname: Cardinals
Colors: red and white
Stadium: unknown
State championships: None
Times worth remembering: Huntley’s three best seasons were its first three. From 1951-53, the Cardinals went 14-8 and made their only playoff appearance, a semifinal berth earned in the program’s first season, 1951. From 1954-69, the Cardinals only had one more winning season.
Times worth forgetting: The span from 1957-60 was the Cardinals’ toughest. With a winless season in 1957 kicking off the stretch, Huntley went 4-30 in five seasons.
Best team: The 1951 team was the only team to make the playoffs in Huntley’s 19-year program history, so they take the title by default. That team went 5-3.
Biggest win: Huntley’s biggest win was probably a combination of its first two. With no reputation and no tradition, the Cardinals won their first two games in program history by a combined 98-0 (50-0 over Albin and 48-0 over Lingle), which gave the program immediate legitimacy.
Heartbreaker: For as good as it started, the 1951 season ended with bitter disappointment in the playoffs.  After taking a 20-7 lead, the Cardinals watched as Hanna scored 20 fourth-quarter points to rally for a 27-20 victory and a berth in the state 6-man championship. Huntley had a 308-190 yardage edge and had 10 first downs to Hanna’s four, yet stayed at home — not only for the ’51 championship, but for the remainder of the program’s history.

Huntley team page.

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