School: Arvada-Clearmont
Nickname: Panthers
Colors: blue and yellow
Stadium: Unknown
State championships: None
Times worth remembering: In their first football season as combined schools, Arvada and Clearmont went 3-1-1 in 1960, the only loss to the Buffalo JV squad. The Panthers later avenged that loss, and also swept a home-and-home with Big Horn and tied Tongue River.
Times worth forgetting: After dropping football after the 1962 season, A-C brought football back for 1969-71 — and went 2-18-2 in that span. The team’s only wins came over Lodge Grass, Mont., and the Gillette sophomore squad. In 1971, the team scored only 8 points in its final seven games, all Powder River Conference losses.
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School: Chugwater
Nickname: Buffaloes
Colors: blue and white
Stadium: Unknown
State championships: none
Times worth remembering: The records don’t show any Chugwater victories in 10 games…. So the closest the Buffaloes ever came, a 27-26 loss to Huntley in the final game of the 1956 season, is by default the program’s pinnacle.
Times worth forgetting: The program’s final game, the 1957 finale against Huntley, was canceled due to Chugwater’s poor field conditions.
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School: Reliance
Nickname: Pirates
Colors: maroon and white
Stadium: Unknown
State championships: none
Times worth remembering: The 1951-52 seasons were probably Reliance’s best of the ‘50s, as the Pirates went 4-2-1 and 5-2 against Class A competition. Both years, Reliance lost to Superior and Evanston, but beat the likes of Star Valley, Jackson and Green River.
Times worth forgetting: The last two years were Reliance’s toughest, especially the second-to-last year in 1956. That season, the Pirates lost their first three games by a combined score of 157-7, then canceled the rest of the season. In 1957, the Pirates went 2-4 in Class B, beating only Pinedale and Lyman.
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School: St. Stephens
Nickname: Eagles
Colors: red and white
Stadium: Unknown
State championships: none
Times worth remembering: St. Stephens only had football for nine seasons, but it didn’t take long to establish a reputation. The Eagles had six consecutive winning seasons from 1959-64, including an 8-1 season and a runner-up finish in 1961 and an 8-0 season and a mythical state championship in 1962. The ’62 team outscored its opponents 286-28.
Times worth forgetting: It took a couple years for the Eagles to learn how to play the sport, though. St. Stephens was a combined 2-11 in its first two seasons. The Eagles scored only 20 points their first season and their lone win was a 7-6 nail-biter over the Riverton JV; they improved in ’58 but still only scored 33 points for the season.