Black Friday occurred on October 28, 1929, when the stock market crashed. It was near the end of the football season and for many the 1930’s looked dim. Sports in America had grown to great heights as professional baseball and football and college sports became ever so popular. High school sports were drawing big crowds in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, La Crosse and other cities where fine teams battled. Crowds of 5,000-8,000 were not uncommon in key Milwaukee City Confe

When my book, The Great Teams came out the WFCA sent an e-mail blast to its members telling them about it and how to order. The second book I sold was to a Carol Hyland and the address to mail it out was in Arizona. I assumed correctly that the order message was from coach Bob Hyland, under his wife’s email address. I hadn’t planned on doing interviews of coaches but as my blogs evolved, I have talked to several former players and coaches, either my email or in phone calls,

THIS IS AN UPDATED BLOG DONE AT 7:14PM, August 4, 2022 First, getting back to the blogs on the 1917 football title: When I was doing research for the blog, I saw a two-line snippet in the La Crosse Tribune that mentioned several teams in the hunt for the state title. The snippet mentioned that undefeated Darlington, with a 5-0-0 record wasn’t being considered to be in the hunt as they didn’t play tough enough competition (An opinion by the sportswriter, J.E. “Jack” Dahlgren”