Thanks to the folks at the Wyoming High School Activities Association, as well as my own detective work on the microfilm, I’ve added names for about 100 seasons to the Coaches Project.
The WHSAA hooked me up with their archive of old statewide directories, allowing me to find my missing coaches for every school in the years 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993. I am still missing some coaches for 1978 and 1981, years for which the WHSAA didn’t have directories in their file… but even so, this hook-up gave me a ton of names and helped me complete a huge gap in my research. Thanks!
For what it’s worth, I believe I have obtained every coach’s name from 1976 to the present — the past 34 years of Wyoming football — except for the following:
1978 coaches for Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, St. Mary’s, Cokeville, Hanna, Lander, Lyman, North Big Horn, Saratoga and Glendo, as well as the first name for coach Bujol in Gillette.
1981 coaches for Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, St. Mary’s, Hanna, Lyman, Saratoga and Rawlins.
With the cumulative efforts of my work on microfilm and the work I did at the WHSAA, I’ve added coaching updates for the following 32 teams: Basin, Bow-Basin, Byron, Cokeville, Cowley, Deaver-Frannie, Encampment, Farson, Gillette, Glendo, Greybull, Guernsey, Guernsey-Sunrise, Hanna, Lander, Lingle, Lyman, Manderson, Moorcroft, Morton, North Big Horn, Pavillion, Rawlins, Saratoga, St. Mary’s/Seton, St. Stephens, Sunrise, Ten Sleep, Thermopolis, Tongue River, Torrington, Wind River. Check out those individual team pages and check the list of missing info to see the updates and what still needs to be done.
Also, Greybull native Steve Core, now in Green River, also hooked me up with some Greybull coach names. Those have now been posted. Thanks to Steve for that info!
More stuff on coaches later this week.
–patrick
Patrick, here is the gr coaches—
1943-44–Ralph Parker, 1945-46–Al Kemnitz, 1947-52–Jim Weir, 1953-55–Frank Stanko, 1956-64–Jerry McMillen, 1965-66,– Fran Gillette, 1967-69–Jerry Hart, 1970-71–Chuck Shelton, 1972-73–Jim House—I believe you have everything from 73 on—-Hope this helps—Steve Core
One other thing, while researching football coaches, I jotted down the Wolves basketball coaches—if you want that let me know—–Steve Core
Hi Steve,
Thank you so much for doing this. It is definitely a HUGE help to me. I really asppreciate it! Hopefully over the weekend I can get these all posted to the Green River team page….
–patrick