2002 – Basketball: Chester, 1952-53
Class D undefeated state basketball champions, 1953: Larry Cook Allan Dueyn Don Fraley Jerry Fraley Richard Fraley Doyal Hartley Cecil Hayes Larry Houchin Gary Parsons Kenneth Ray Reuben Schleifer, Coach James Irwin, Ass’t. Coach Lavern Alloway, Student Manager
2003 – Football: Grand Island, 1953
Class A State Ratings Champion, undefeated and untied, 10-0:
2003 – Basketball: Syracuse, 1953-54
Undefeated Class C State Champions (27-0)
2004 – Basketball: Omaha Holy Name, 1954-55
Omaha Holy Name Boys basketball (23-0) of 1954-55, coach by Bob Gates.
2004 – Football: Lincoln High, 1954
1954 Lincoln High Football (9-0), coached by Bill Pfeiff:
2005 – Football: 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.
2005 – Basketball: Holstein, 1955-56
Completed a two-year sweep as Class E champions. Went 27-0 in 54-55, accumulating more than half of the team’s wins during a 50-game win streak; and the first of back-to-back the Class E state championships. The 1955-56 team won all of its 28 games but was forced to forfeit five games because of an NSAA […]
2006 – Football: Arcadia, 1956-57
50 Years Later & Still Talk of the Town Let’s see now, the Arcadia high school football team of 50 years ago didn’t have a Heisman trophy winner….Didn’t have bigtime college recruiters beating a path to their football field… Played in one of Nebraska’s smaller classes…..Had a lot of chores to do before and after […]
2006 – Basketball: Utica, 1956-57
Class C State Champions:
2007 – Basketball: Clatonia, 1958
The only undefeated team in the 1957-58 season, Clatonia went 27-0 to win Class D while scoring 71.6 points and allowing 39.6 points per game during the season. Starter Oren Miller is the father of Angie Miller, an all-stater on Wilber-Clatonia’s silver anniversary girls basketball team.
