New series starting in 2011

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Every couple of years, when the WHSAA has to build a new football schedule to accommodate changes to classifications and conferences, we get to see several matchups that we have never seen before.

In 2011, with Cheyenne South coming into the mix and several other schools in new conferences or classifications, we see more first-time matchups than we have in years.

Obviously, the biggest change comes with South, as the Bison will play their first year of varsity football in 2011. Therefore, it only makes sense that the Bison will establish new series with all of its opponents. This year, that’s all of 4A (Gillette, Sheridan, Natrona, Kelly Walsh, Cheyenne Central, Cheyenne East, Laramie, Rock Springs and Evanston).

South’s move prompted one other big schedule shift: that of Wheatland. With the Bison coming to 4A, the Bulldogs got bumped to 2A and will play four schools this year that they have never played before — all new conference rivals (Big Horn, Tongue River, Moorcroft and Wright).

Hulett and Dubois, both moving from 11-man to six-man, will also play several new opponents in 2011.

In all, there are 21 new matchups in 2011. Here is a quick week-by-week breakdown at the games involving teams that have never faced each other before (not counting any Week 0 games that aren’t 4A, which aren’t scheduled by the WHSAA):

Week 0: Cheyenne South-Natrona.

Week 1: Cheyenne Central-Cheyenne South; Pine Bluffs-Wyoming Indian; Wind River-Kemmerer; Rawlins-Sidney, Neb.

Week 2: Cheyenne South-Sheridan; Wheatland-Wright; Snake River-Dubois; Lusk-Hill City, S.D.

Week 3: Laramie-Cheyenne South; Hulett-Kaycee.

Week 4: Cheyenne East-Cheyenne South; Wheatland-Moorcroft; Kaycee-Dubois.

Week 5: Cheyenne South-Evanston; Big Horn-Wheatland.

Week 6: Cheyenne South-Kelly Walsh; Farson-Hulett.

Week 7: Gillette-Cheyenne South.

Week 8: Rock Springs-Cheyenne South; Wheatland-Tongue River.

Click here to see the 2011 schedules in full.

–patrick

Winningest coaches by school

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Part of this research that I have always wanted to discover is the names of the coaches who have the most victories at each school.

Now, after a few weeks of counting and tallying, I have that list — the coaches with the most victories at each school.

I have tallied the all-time victories leaders before, but those records were career totals and did not look at the victory totals at each school.

Only 10 current coaches are their program leaders. They include Burns’ Bill Fullmer, Cokeville’s Todd Dayton, Glenrock’s Ray Kumpula, Hulett’s Steve Colling, Kaycee’s Dustin Sipe, Kemmerer’s Shawn Rogers, Natrona’s Steve Harshman, Snake River’s Mike Bates, Southeast’s Mark Bullington and Wright’s Larry Yeradi.

Only one coach has the most victories at two schools — Carl Mirich. He is the leader at both Moorcroft and Goshen Hole.

The leader for each program is listed below. Programs that did not win a game or where no coaches are known are not listed. Totals are from 1920 to 2010 only. As always, this list and these totals are dependent on the names I have; to see the names I’m missing for the Coaches Project, click here.

Albin: Joseph Weller (8 victories, 1942-43)
Clearmont/Arvada-Clearmont: Mike Starr (19 victories, 1938-41)
Basin: Andy Johnson (69 victories, 1966-76)
Big Horn: Rick Scherry (133 victories, 1975-2000)
Big Piney: Joel Eskelsen (148 victories, 1983-2007)
Bow-Basin: Dean Bartow (9 victories, 1978-81)
Buffalo: Mike Moon (136 victories, 1974-97)
Burlington: Rick Wheeler (30 victories, 2000-05)
Burns: Bill Fullmer (58 victories, 1994-present)
Byron: Frank Thompson (52 victories, 1959-66)
Cheyenne Central: John Powell (94 victories, 1924-39)
Cheyenne East: Art Kissack (38 victories, 1970-76)
Cheyenne St. Mary’s: Marv Strauch (33 victories, 1954-59)
Cody: John McDougall (131 victories, 1974-98)
Cokeville: Todd Dayton (253 victories, 1980-present)
Cowley: Scott Nielsen (19 victories, 1971-73)
Dayton: Richard Gruber (34 victories, 1950-55)
Deaver-Frannie: Dennis Dyvig (28 victories, 1966-69 and 1971)
Douglas: Pete Petronovich (113 victories, 1943-68)
Dubois: Pat Ballinger (41 victories, 1988-97)
Encampment: Burt Willford (2 victories, 1990)
Evanston: Kay Fackrell (92 victories, 1980-97)
Farson: Neal Nelson (5 victories, 1987-88) and Ruline O’Neill (5 victories, 1989)
Fort Washakie: William Balmer (1 victory, 1926-27)
Gebo: Clarence Speich (9 victories, 1932-37)
Gillette: John Alberta (68 victories, 1961-70)
Glendo: George Carmin (58 victories, 1954-67)
Glenrock: Ray Kumpula (81 victories, 1990-96 and 2002-present)
Goshen Hole: Carl Mirich (14 victories, 1970-73)
Green River: Tom Wilson (53 victories, 1987-99)
Greybull: Tim Nolan (47 victories, 1983-89)
Guernsey: Ed Jolovich (18 victories, 1955-61)
Guernsey-Sunrise: Tony Gamble (81 victories, 1967-81)
Hanna: Brad Barlow (31 victories, 1985, 1987-92 and 1995-98)
Heart Mountain: Ray Thompson (3 victories, 1943) and Talbot Rudolph (3 victories, 1944)
Hulett: Steve Colling (72 victories, 1992-present)
Huntley: LeRoy Cundall (20 victories, 1961-66)
Jackson: Jim Rooks (42 victories, 1981-88)
Kaycee: Dustin Sipe (12 victories, 2009-present)
Kelly Walsh: Tom Staffileno (37 victories, 1982-88)
Kemmerer: Shawn Rogers (54 victories, 2003-present)
LaGrange: Duane Christensen (1 victory, 1961)
Lander: Art Quinlan (38 victories, 1930-36 and 1939)
Laramie: John E. Deti (203 victories, 1944-76)
Lingle: Roger Fuss (40 victories, 1970-74 and 1980-83) and Ron Halley (40 victories, 1984-90 and 1994-98)
Lovell: Roy Strom (59 victories, 1992-2003)
Lusk: Jerry Fullmer (174 victories, 1975-2004)
Lyman: Loren Huntsman (39 victories, 1996-2001 and 2006-09)
Manderson: Jim Caines (12 victories, 1961-64)
Manville: Joe Sandoval (10 victories, 1946-47 and 1950)
Meeteetse: Jim Barrus (51 victories, 1966, 1971-73, 1984-85, 1988-91 and 1993-94)
Midwest: Dallas Hoff (131 victories, 1962-89)
Moorcroft: Carl Mirich (110 victories, 1980-2002)
Morton: R.E. “Dick” Kinzer (29 victories, 1955-59)
Mountain View: Don Dinnel (94 victories, 1989-2002)
Natrona: Steve Harshman (125 victories, 1991-present)
Newcastle: Erv Wentling (48 victories, 1977-85)
Normative Services: Mike Gorzalka (14 victories, 2000-02)
North Big Horn: Steve Hutchinson (7 victories, 1979-80)
Pavillion: Chuck Frost (14 victories, 1963-64 and 1966-68)
Pine Bluffs: Tom Watson (49 victories, 1986-99 and 2006)
Pinedale: Gene Andrews (54 victories, 1973-82)
Powell: Harold Hand (60 victories, 1955-64)
Ranchester: Al Peyton (4 victories, 1954-55)
Rawlins: Fran Connor (42 victories, 1953-61)
Reliance: Jack Smith (32 victories, 1946-54)
Riverside: Steve Olson (62 victories, 1990-2003)
Riverton: Don Julian (63 victories, 1993-2001)
Rock Springs: Mike Lopiccolo (62 victories, 1981-91)
Rocky Mountain: Ben Smith (101 victories, 1988-2002)
St. Stephens: Chuck Murray (21 victories, 1961-63)
Saratoga: Mike Koulentes (35 victories, 1972-77)
Sheridan: Bruce Keith (99 victories, 1978-93)
Shoshoni: Harold Bailey (128 victories, 1975-2001)
Snake River: Mike Bates (13 victories, 2009-present)
Southeast: Mark Bullington (98 victories, 1999-present)
Star Valley: Jerry Hart (83 victories, 1969-81) and Robert Linford (83 victories, 1988-98)
Sundance: Lance Hofland (52 victories, 1999-2007)
Sunrise: Tony Balzan (17 victories, 1952-56)
Superior: Tony Katana (26 victories, 1948-53)
Ten Sleep: John Hamilton (38 victories, 1972-82)
Thermopolis: Joe Bush (59 victories, 1924-34)
Tongue River: Walter Gray (140 victories, 1965-91)
Torrington: Doug Bartlett (102 victories, 1981-2000)
University Prep: Don Harkins and John Engstrom (co-coaches, 4 victories, 1929)
Upton: B.F. “Tead” Weaver (51 victories, 1954-68)
Valley: Herbert Snyder (1 victory, 1925)
Wheatland: Bill Pentland (82 victories, 1982-98)
Wind River: Dick Quayle (76 victories, 1987-2004)
Worland: Carl Selmer (86 victories, 1947-57)
Worland Institute: Norman Holmskog (2 victories, 1957)
Wright: Larry Yeradi (69 victories, 1995-present)
Wyoming Indian: Kevin Jordan (16 victories, 1993-2000)

In compiling these records, I also made a double-check of each team’s overall record. In doing so, I discovered a few errors I had made in my tallies over the years. Most of them were small — usually one win, loss or tie either way — but a couple were pretty big corrections. Nevertheless, records for the following teams have been corrected and have been updated on all the relevant pages: Albin, Arvada-Clearmont, Big Horn, Cheyenne East, Cody, Cowley, Deaver-Frannie, Douglas, Dubois, Encampment, Evanston, Farson, Gillette, Glenrock, Greybull, Hanna, Huntley, Jackson, Kelly Walsh, Kemmerer, Lovell, Mountain View, Natrona, Newcastle, Pinedale, Rock Springs, Rocky Mountain, St. Stephens, Saratoga, Star Valley, Ten Sleep, Tongue River, Upton, Wheatland.

–patrick

Shrine Bowl rosters shift

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Four new players have been added to this year’s Shrine Bowl rosters to replace players who have withdrawn from the game, including three on the South all-star team.

The South team’s newest members are Douglas’ Baylor Sieg, Laramie’s Wes Dalles and Evanston’s Scott Davis. They replace Cokeville’s Chance Maddock and Douglas’ Trent Boner and Taylor Lisco.

For the North team, Dillon McCoy of Greybull will replace Thermopolis’ Tanner Cornwell.

T.J. Claunch, executive director of the Shrine Bowl, announced the changes Tuesday. The game will be played June 11 in Casper.

–patrick

All-state listings: 1922 to 1945

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All-state listings from 1922 to 1945 have been added to the all-state listings. The all-state teams from this time are a bit of a hodgepodge because no coach, official or press organization consistently picked a team during this time. Sometimes, more than one team was chosen in a year. In cases where I found more than one team, I tried to list the team that was the most representative of all teams statewide.

First names, when available, have been used. Unfortunately, first names were rarely used in the sports section during this time.

For some years, I have yet to locate all-state listings, and I have yet to find any all-state listings prior to 1922. As always, if you can help me, email me the listings at pschmiedt@yahoo.com or post a comment below.

–patrick

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