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

How Ladysmith got its name: Some background: Ladysmith was founded in 1885 with the name Flambeau Falls but was renamed to Corbett, then Warner in 1891. On July 1, 1900, the name was formally changed to Ladysmith, named after the bride of Charles R. Smith, head of the Menasha Wooden Ware Company. Since the 1920’s the city has had a fairly steady population of between 3,100- 3,900+ residents. Of the teams in the Heart of the North Conference, Ladysmith had the second larg