After the 1950 football season ended, the “Bear” came calling. T he Clintonville “Truckers” finished 7-1-0 on the 1950 season and won the Northwoods Conference title. They were led by Don Jirschele who earned 3rd team Associated Press All-State after scoring 17 touchdowns and kicking six extra points for 108 points. In a 60-0 win over New London, Don scored seven times on runs of 41, 40, 29, 14 and 2 yards as well as returning two interceptions for scores of 100 and 87 yar

1992 rolled around and Cliff Christl of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel sent out requests to 300 current and former coaches, players and sportswriters to submit their thoughts on who they thought where the best ever in Wisconsin high school football. The voters were to help create an all-time first team and second team of great players and recognize the top coaches. The voting was to be done on the basis of a player’s high school career and not what they did in college or if

This blog deals with the Catholic schools, for the most part, in the Milwaukee Archdiocese…schools in the Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan, Washington, Dodge, Ozaukee, Walworth, Waukesha and Fond du Lac counties. There are several charts to view to hopefully illustrate my research. My story starts in the 1950’s by keying in on the Milwaukee Archdiocese. In 1957 the Milwaukee Archdiocese had 24 high schools, four colleges and 198 grade schools as they served over 100,00