NOTE:  If you read Part 1 before today you would have seen that some years for the following Top 10 teams is missing.  The years for: #7, Antigo is 1976 #6. Kenosha Tremper is 1979 #5, Green Bay Premontre is 1970 #2, Fond du Lac is 1974 I have re-edited, and the years have been updated.  Sorry for the problem.                           THE TOP GAME Waukesha High School went from one extreme to another as the eighth game of t

This is being reposted because some info was somehow left off. It is the years for several of the teams that were missing. For 85-years, starting in 1885, running the ball was the way to win games.  Sometimes a team, after 1906, would throw the ball. When you look at the state record book you notice a few things about the 1970’s.  First, it would not be until 1980 before the emergence of the modern passing game with Chippewa Falls McDonell leading the way. In 1965 and 1967

Harry Cochems …Born ion Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on January 11, 1875.  He was the older brother of Eddie Cochems, “The Father of the Forward Pass”.  Harry played football for the first time upon entering UW and played only two years, first as a backup in 1894.  He didn’t play in 1895 and 1896 but then started at halfback 1897.  Harry was an outstanding debater, student and in track he was the Intercollegiate shot up and hammer throw champion.  Cochems stood 6’ tall and weighed