Updates: State basketball scores (and some Shrine Bowl)

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I finished researching the 1924 state basketball tournament, and posted it here, and now you can check out every score from every state basketball tournament, boys and girls. Well, almost every one — I’m still missing the score of the 1953 Class A consolation semifinal game between Rawlins and Reliance. Rawlins won it, but for the life of me I can’t find the score. Help!

Updates will be slower throughout the summer, as I will be concentrating my efforts on researching backward through time. I have researched through 1937, with the eventual (self-imposed) goals of reaching 1920 by the end of the summer and the 19th century by Christmas. And then I’ll be putting together that book thingy…. Keep checking this blog for more details on that project.

Newsbreak: Shrine Bowl recaps from the Cody Enterprise, Douglas Budget and Kemmerer Gazette.

–patrick

Updates: Goshen Hole, Burns, Saratoga… seeking a Hulett coach… and state basketball scores

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The late 1960s were a crazy time in the southeastern corner of Wyoming. Goshen Hole, the precursor to what is now Southeast, started its program in 1966, and Burns followed a year later. I spent a big portion of this week trying to track down more information on the first seasons of these two programs and found a couple games to update.

I added two games to Burns’ first season, both losses to the Pine Bluffs JV squad — 27-20 on Oct. 3 and 41-26 on Oct. 18. (These two losses extended Burns’ winless streak in that span to 24 games, a change updated on the streaks page.)

I also found the score for Goshen Hole’s 54-19 loss to Harrisburg, Neb., on Sept. 30, 1966, knocking it off the missing games list in the process.

My research also turned up two more new games, courtesy of the Byes Project. I added Huntley’s 33-6 loss to Lyman, Neb., sometime between Sept. 12-16, 1967 (added to the missing games list because I couldn’t pin down a date or a location) and Midwest’s 32-7 victory over Glendo on Sept. 3, 1965.

I also took care of two missing games for Saratoga’s 1955 season. I found the score, date and location for Saratoga’s 18-12 loss to the Rawlins JV on Oct. 4 and the score for Saratoga’s 13-0 loss to the Laramie JV on Oct. 13.

Coaches Project: I didn’t add any new coaches, but I did fix a couple discrepancies where I had two coaches coaching at two different schools in the same season.

I updated Green River’s coach in 1969; it was Chuck Shelton, not Jerry Hart. I had Jerry Hart listed as coaching in both Green River and Star Valley in 1969, so I double-checked and Hart was in Afton while Shelton had the reins in Green River.

I also ran into this problem with Rand Klatt, who I had listed as coaching both Pinedale and Hulett in 1965. I double-checked, and Klatt was in Pinedale that year. So now I’m looking hard to find out who Hulett’s coach was in 1965. So far, no luck. If you know, leave a comment below!

Basketball: I have updated the scores I was missing for the state basketball tournaments in 1923, 1925, 1929 and 1930. The years 1925, 1929 and 1930 didn’t need much research done for them, but 1923 had to be built up and researched basically from scratch. The year 1924 still need some additional research, but I hope to have that completed within the next couple weeks. We’ll see…. Click here to see this side project, every score from every state basketball tournament (except, obviously, for 1924).

–patrick

Updates: More early 1950s Bighorn Basin, some Saratoga, some Jackson and lots of others

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As I shared earlier this spring, I am working hard to fill in some missing info for some of the smaller schools in the Bighorn Basin. The past couple weeks, I’ve really concentrated on 1953 and 1954 and have a bunch of new updates to show for it.

For 1954, I added 10 new games to the database, including five for Meeteetse and three for Deaver-Frannie. Meeteetse’s five added games included a 25-0 loss to Byron on some day between Sept. 7-13 (added to the missing games list because I couldn’t find the exact date or a location), a 20-6 victory over Burlington on Oct. 6, a 19-14 victory over the Cody JV on Oct. 14, a 43-31 loss to the Lovell JV on Oct. 20 and a 18-14 victory over the Cody JV on Oct. 28. For Deaver-Frannie, I added a victory over the Worland Institute on Oct. 15 (and added it to the missing games because I couldn’t find a score or a location), a 37-12 victory over Burlington on Oct. 22 (and added it to the missing games list because I couldn’t pin down the location) and a 36-18 loss to Cowley on Oct. 29. I also added a game between Lovell and Billings Central, Mont., on Oct 21 (added to the missing games list because I couldn’t find a score) and Byron’s 19-18 victory over the Lovell JV on Nov. 9 (added to the missing games list because I couldn’t find a location).

Digging into the 1953 season gave me four new games, all involving Deaver-Frannie. I have added Deaver-Frannie’s 37-0 victory over the Worland Institute on Oct. 3 (and added it to the missing games list because I couldn’t find the location), Cowley’s 21-20 victory over Deaver-Frannie on some day between or including Oct. 8-10 (and added it to the missing games list because I couldn’t find the exact date or a location), Deaver-Frannie’s 39-6 victory over Burlington on some day between or including Oct. 14-17 (and added it to the missing games list because I couldn’t find an exact date or a location) and Cowley’s 32-26 victory over Deaver-Frannie on Oct. 23.

I also explored Saratoga’s 1950 season but turned up more questions than answers. One game was added — the Panthers’ 21-13 loss to Pinedale on Sept. 22 — but two other games scheduled for Saratoga that season didn’t fit the rest of the state. Saratoga had a game scheduled with Lyman on Oct. 13, but Lyman played Farson that week; Saratoga also had a game scheduled with Hanna on Oct. 20, but Hanna played Reliance that day. Both of those games are staying off the database for now but are noted here.

Jackson’s 1951 season also saw a couple additions: a 14-6 loss to Green River on Oct. 16, and a game with Soda Springs, Idaho, on either Oct. 19 or Oct. 20 (added to the missing games list because I couldn’t find a date or a result).

Other additions

Added Wheatland’s 20-13 victory over the Laramie JV on Sept. 26, 1952.

Added  St. Mary’s 26-20 loss to the Laramie JV on Oct. 19, 1955.

Missing games

Found the location for the Oct. 18, 2008, game between the Hanna JV and Midwest (it was in Hanna).

Found the score of Ten Sleep’s 44-6 loss to the Belfry, Mont., JV on Oct. 20, 2007.

Found the date for the Sept. 5, 1981, game between the Evanston JV and Mountain View.

Found locations for two Hanna games in 1956 — the Oct. 9 game with Baggs (in Hanna) and the Oct. 19 game with Encampment (in Encampment).

Found the score for the Huntley-Albin game on Oct. 6, 1954 — a 33-33 tie. (This game also moved into fifth place all-time on the scoring records list on the list of highest scoring tie games.)

Found the score of Upton’s 28-20 victory over the Rapid City, S.D., JV on Oct. 17, 1957.

Also, for consistency’s sake, I removed two canceled games, one between Ten Sleep and Fort Washakie scheduled for Sept. 20, 2008, and the other between Burlington and Meeteetse scheduled for Oct. 20, 1989. Fort Washakie and Burlington didn’t have teams in those particular years.

All the updates have been made on all the relevant pages.

Coaches Project: Updates for Big Horn, Big Piney, Buffalo, Byron, Cowley, Encampment, Greybull, Huntley, Morton, Powell, Reliance, St. Mary’s, Snake River, Sunrise, Superior, University Prep. Check out those updates on those teams’ pages, and click here to see what else I’m missing.

–patrick

Updates: Mostly early 1950s Bighorn Basin

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It’s been a serendipitous week in my research. I kind of stumbled into some great information about the Bighorn Basin’s six-man division in 1952. The info I found eliminated three games from my missing games list: I found the location for the Byron-Meeteetse game on Oct. 3 (Byron), the location for the Deaver-Frannie-Meeteetse game on Oct. 8 (Meeteetse) and the date and location for the Byron-Meeteetse game on Oct. 24 (Meeteetse).

I also added four games to the 1952 season: Cowley’s game at Meeteetse on Sept. 26 (also added to missing games because I couldn’t find a result); Cowley’s 44-21 victory over Deaver-Frannie on Oct. 3; Deaver-Frannie’s 43-35 victory over Meeteetse on Oct. 31; and Basin’s 13-12 loss to the Worland JV on Oct. 30.

The opening week of the 1951 season also turned up a few changes. I added two games — Byron’s 28-6 victory over Colstrip, Mont., and Deaver-Frannie’s 48-12 victory over Belfry, Mont. — but added them both to the missing games list because I couldn’t pin down exact dates or locations. Conversely, the game between Cowley and Colstrip scheduled for Sept. 15, 1951, was not played and came off the database completely.

This week, I spent a bunch of time trying to knock as many games as possible off the missing games list as well as opportunistic chip-aways at the Byes Project (trying to account for every open week listed on this site). Here are some other updates I made this week.

Missing games:

Found the location for Guernsey-Sunrise’s game with the Torrington JV on Sept. 4, 1965 (it was in Guernsey).

Removed an extra game scheduled for Nov. 11, 1950, between Rock Springs and Rawlins; the game was not scheduled originally and never played.

Found the score for Douglas’ 25-13 victory over Edgemont, S.D., on Sept. 30, 1949.

Noted that the Oct. 25, 1963, game between Burlington and Morton was canceled. Morton tried to find a last-minute replacement but couldn’t do it.

Found the score for Moorcroft’s 37-12 victory over Hulett on Oct. 14, 1955.

Found the date and location and corrected the score for the Lander JV’s 36-6 victory over Morton on Sept. 25, 1952 (it was in Lander; I originally had 32-6).

Found the location for Newcastle’s game with Pine Ridge, S.D., on Nov. 11, 1952 (it was in Newcastle).

Removed an extra game between Buffalo and Riverton on Sept. 8, 1950; it was never on Riverton’s schedule to begin with.

Removed an extra game between Sunrise and Albin on Sept. 26, 1950; they played a week later than that.

Found the date for the game between Burlington and Cowley on Sept. 29, 1950.

Found the location for the game between Hanna and Saratoga on Sept. 29, 1950 (it was in Hanna).

Noted that the Oct. 20, 1950, game between Thermopolis and Basin was canceled.

Byes Project:

Added Douglas’ 34-0 victory over the Natrona JV on Oct. 1, 1955.

Added Deaver-Frannie’s 20-8 victory over Meeteetse on Oct. 12, 1951.

Coaches Project: Updates for Albin, Byron, Cowley, Deaver-Frannie, Hanna, Powell, Saratoga, St. Mary’s, Superior and Thermopolis. I also made the decision to accept two initials as sufficient in place of a first name for identification; many newspapers in the 1940s and prior did not identify many people, especially high school football coaches, by their first names. Whenever possible, I’ve used the first name in place of the two initials, but in several cases I’ve decided to let the two initials be enough (despite a ton of searching).

–patrick

Updates: Pinedale, Snake River, Star Valley and some southwest coaches

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A couple quick updates to post here. New additions for the Coaches Project for Big Piney, Cokeville, Hanna, Pinedale, Reliance, Snake River and Superior; check out those individual team pages to see those updates.

I also made a couple updates. I noted the Oct. 17, 1952, game between Pinedale and Baggs (Snake River) was canceled. I also corrected the location for Star Valley’s game with Bear Lake, Idaho, on Sept. 9, 1983; it was in Montpelier, not Afton.

–patrick

Updates: Coaches Project, Cowley and Byron

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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

Updates: Deaver-Frannie, Burlington, Midwest, Guernsey, Glenrock, Star Valley, Jackson

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A couple small updates I’ve squeezed in between work on term papers:

Coaches Project: I’ve added coaches for Chugwater, Cowley, Guernsey, Manderson and Sunrise.

I knocked three games off the missing games list: Deaver-Frannie’s 29-0 victory over Burlington on Sept. 28, 1956, Midwest’s 12-0 victory over the Natrona JV on Sept. 28, 1956, and Guernsey’s 24-16 victory over Glenrock on Oct. 12, 1951.

I also corrected the score of the Star Valley-Jackson game last season. It was 41-16 Star Valley; I had 41-13. Thanks to Dahl Erickson up at the Star Valley Independent for catching that one!

–patrick

1979 Class AA and Class A all-state teams

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In short: Got ’em!

I finally tracked down the 1979 Class AA and Class A all-state teams today. They’re now posted on the all-state page for you to check out. Some familiar names on that list, that’s for sure…

In case you’re wondering, YES, I’m still short a few all-state teams. If you know where I might get my hands on the full list of all-state players for these years, let me know: 1997 Class 2A, 1995 Class 1A-Division II, 1994 Class 1A-9 man; 1984 Class 1A; 1982 Class A; 1973 Class A; 1972 Class A. I’m missing a bunch prior to 1971; check out the all-state page to see what’s missing.

Also, I’m trying to find out the teams for a couple players who didn’t have their schools listed on the original lists:

* Justin Dowler, 1987 Class 4A quarterback (Update: Dowler is from Laramie. Case closed.)

* Cory Doak, 1983 Class 4A defensive end (Update: Doak is from Rock Springs. Case closed.)

* John Easterbrook, 1979 Class AA punter (Update: Easterbrook is from Laramie. Case closed.)

* Smith, first name unavailable, 1972 Class AA defensive back

* Dennis Hankins, 1961 Class A guard.

In addition, I’m missing a first name from 1988, last name McCullough, a tight end for Rawlins. (Update: Brian is his first name. Case closed.)

If you can help, leave a comment below or e-mail me at pschmiedt@yahoo.com.

–patrick

Updates: Huntley

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Thanks to Huntley alum Carl Rupp, I’ve filled in some of the coaches and removed a missing game from the missing games list for the Cardinals.

In addition to adding the coach for three seasons, I added Huntley’s 13-0 victory over the Gering, Neb., JV on Sept. 16, 1964. Thanks, Carl!

Again, if you see games on the missing games list or coaches’ names that are for seasons on the Coaches Project list that you can help me with, let me know. It’s appreciated!

–patrick