Football – 2005: Omaha Creighton Prep, 1955
Record: 8-0-1. The Junior Jays won 28 straight before playing to a 7-7 tie with Boys Town in the season finale. The team — led by all-staters Frank Zitka, Robert Springer and Leo Von Tersch and first-year coach Don Leahy – was named the state champion after completing its third season without a loss.
Football – 2004: Lincoln High, 1954
1954 Lincoln High Football (9-0), coached by Bill Pfeiff:
Football – 2003: Grand Island, 1953
Class A State Ratings Champion, undefeated and untied, 10-0:
Football – 2001: Lincoln High, 1951
Unbeaten in 1951:
Football – 1999: Omaha Tech, 1949
The 1949-50 Omaha Tech school annual staff tried its best to review the football season and make it sound interesting. “It would be virtually impossible to pick out the one outstanding game of the season,” editors concluded. “Every one was thrill-packed.” Well. To put it a few other ways, every game also was a romp… […]
Football – 1995: 1945 Gothenburg Swedes
Unbeaten, untied, five shutouts and a 27-21 victory over Omaha Creighton Prep in the high school game of the year. Those were the Swedes of Gothenburg and Coach Dutch Zorn in 1945, the winner of the Hall of Fame’s first Golden Anniversary Team Award, announced at the 1995 Hall of Fame banquet. Gothenburg’s 10 wins […]
Basketball – 2013: Beaver Crossing
1963-64 Basketball Champion
Basketball – 2012: Omaha Tech
1963 Class A Champion Front L to R-George Swanson S.M., John Farmer, Bo Starks, Ron Boone, Harold Crowe, Lewis Garrison, Jerry Mosser, Dan Swanson S.M. Back-Fred Longacre Ass’t. Coach, Fred Hare, Roger Sindelar, James White, Rich Lerdahl, Joe Williams, John Mackey, Neal Mosser Coach.
Basketball – 2009: Omaha South 1960
Record: 21-0 Coach: Cornie Collin, 1995 Hall of Fame inductee The 1960 Class A state championship basketball was the only unbeaten Class A team for the next 29 years. They won every laurel available that season–city champions, district champions, state tournament. Team selected in 2000 for the South High Hall of Fame. Starters: Charles Bruno, […]
Basketball – 2008: Red Willow, 1958-59
Unbeaten in Football (9-0), State Champions in Basketball (27-1) and State Champions in Track & Field.
