There were so many good teams and players in the 1950’s and there were some very good games to choose from. It seems that Kenosha was part of it all. THE BEST GAME Kenosha won the conference title in 1950 (8-0-0), 1951 (7-1-0), 1955 (8-0-0),1956 (8-0-0) and 1959 (8-0-0) while placing second in 1952 (7-1-0), 1957 (7-1-0) and 1958 (7-1-0) and third in 1953 (6-2-0). Only 1954 were the Red Devil

The decade started with Kenosha high school winning the mythical state title and that’s the way it ended in 1959. There were no polls or playoffs in 1950 but the thought around the state was that the “Red Devils” were the best. Even better than the Green Bay West “Wildcats” or the Wausau “Lumberjacks”. It doesn’t hurt that Kenosha started the decade with the player named the state’s All-Time Player in the 1993 Milwaukee Journal Team of the Century. That of course was Alan

Yes, I know I spent a lot of time on the 1940’s Great Teams. This was a generation of superb programs and I wanted to highlight their accomplishments. This was the decade when the first official All-State teams were named, starting in 1945 by the Associated Press. The first statewide press poll for the top teams on a weekly basis was in 1947, introduced also by the AP with Appleton (8-0-0) nosing out Wausau (7-0-1). The polls would be for only that year in the 1940’s but n