It was on a cold Thursday afternoon and there was some snow on the ground from the night before when the temperature dipped to 11-degrees. There were big fluffy clouds in the sky over Carson Park in Eau Claire on that Armistice Day, November 11, 1943. This was the day of the annual rivalry game between Eau Claire Memorial and Chippewa Falls. This was “THE GAME” for the area. How big did the yearly game mean to the two communities? As an example, a few years earlier, to hono

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