After the win over Menominee the Ledgers were tied with Waukesha Memorial for the top spot in the first 1983 WISAA poll, a spot they would hold the rest of the season. The next six games were conference games with only a week eight 14-10 victory over De Pere Abbott Pennings, the #2 team in the FVCC being close. Interceptions were the name of the game as Toshner ended the final Squires threat with a pick of a toss by Todd Gregoire. On an end around Gregoire tried to pass but

With school records that go back to 1914 the city of Fond du Lac had only one high school, Goodrich, and one football team. Until 1967 the teams had only been a middle of the road to a lower tier program. In fact, they had only won one Fox Valley River Conference title and had only one runner up team. The period of 1914-1967 shows that the Cardinals had won only five games or more in a single season (57 years) six times. Not a big, proud program. Beginning in 1964 things

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