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.
2007 – Football: Lexington
Undefeated (8-0) and The Associated Press Class A state champion, the Minutemen allowed only one touchdown all year. The team included three all-state starters – Dallas Dyer, Monte Kiffin and Mick Tingelhoff. By BARB BIERMAN BATIE, Lexington Clipper-Herald 09/21/2007 LEXINGTON — There was something special in the crisp fall air in 1957 — something […]
