State Champion and Finalist from the area.

[89Falcon]

3 hours ago, bullets13 said:

Back story? 

There were definitely some issues in the background that do not get mentioned when folks tell the story 

[Austin1985]

18 hours ago, prepballfan said:

1941 Houston Wheatley  SF

1943 Houston Yates, Co Champions

1944 Houston Wheatley Champions

1946 Galveston Central Co-Champions

1948 Orange Wallace SF - Willie Ray Smith 

1949 Port Arthur Lincoln Co-Champions

1949 Orange Wallace State Champions

1950 Houston Yates SF

1950 Huntsville Sam Houston SF

1951 Houston Yates Co-Champions

1951 Huntsville Sam Houston State Champions

1953 Port Arthur Lincoln State Champions

1954 Houston Wheatley State Champions

1954 Orange Wallace State Champions

1955 Port Arthur Lincoln State Champions

1955 Baytown Carver State Champions

1957 Galena Park Fidelity manor State Champions

1958 Houston Washington SF

1958 Baytown Carver State Champions

1959 Beaumont Hebert State Champions

1960 Houston Washington Co-Champions

1961 Houston Yates SF

1961 Baytown Carver State Champions

1962 Dayton Colbert SF

1962 Houston Yates State Champions

1963 Galveston Central State Champions

1964 Houston Yates SF

1964 Lufkin Dunbar State Champions

1965 Houston Yates State Champions

1965 Nacogdoches Campbell SF 

1966 Beaumont Hebert State Champions

1966 Lufkin Dunbar State Champions

1967 Lufkin Dunbar State Champions

1967 Jasper Rowe State Champions 

State Champs, Co-Champs, and SF's for the PVIL schools. Thanks for bringing this up. Wonderful to learn history and recognize these great athletes, coaches, and schools. 

 

Thank you for posting

[prepballfan]

13 hours ago, bullets13 said:

Back story? 

I do not remember. My grandfather went to the game and told me he was not renewed afterwards. 

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[prepballfan]

5 hours ago, Austin1985 said:

Thank you for posting

Ty for reminding me. Its very important for us to learn. Its very important to the whole history of local football. 

[purpleeagle]

Newton County population about 14,000 people has 7 state championships. 

[1970]

On 3/23/2024 at 7:28 PM, PN-G bamatex said:

Would be interested in seeing the regional champions in the small school divisions from the days before state championships were played in the lower classifications added to this list. The original Port Neches Indians won regional championships in 1946 and ‘47, when that was the highest they could go. Finished one of those two seasons undefeated, as I recall.

The '46 - '47 PNG teams lost 1 game in 2 seasons.  The loss was to a Lake Charles LA team, and there was no way they were going to win that one, per my father in law, who played on those teams.  He said that at the end of a qtr, if PNG had the ball, the refs would give Lake Charles possession.  My father in law says that Coach McCollum was so angry that he called a practice for the next morning (on a Saturday). Anyway back then Regional was as far as they (PNG at least) could go; there was no state playoff, as bamatex says.   

[Bigdog]

On 3/23/2024 at 7:28 PM, PN-G bamatex said:

Would be interested in seeing the regional champions in the small school divisions from the days before state championships were played in the lower classifications added to this list. The original Port Neches Indians won regional championships in 1946 and ‘47, when that was the highest they could go. Finished one of those two seasons undefeated, as I recall.

According to UIL archives, the playoffs were created in 1920, when the all schools played for one ring and ended in a tie.    Divisions were created in 1925 when 1A was created and then the  "B" division was created in 1926 and only played to BI-District.  Starting in 1928-1972 the "B" division played to regionals or Bi-district, it varied.   By then the PVIL and the UIL had multiple divisions up to 4A.

Nederland won regionals in '42, and '45 and  tied in the '44 regionals .  They were undefeated both years ('42 & '45) with one tie in '42.

PNG won regionals in '34, '46 and 47.   They were 9-2 in '34, undefeated in '46 and 11-1 in '47.

PA Austin won regionals in '43 and '47.  They were 9-1 in '43 and 9-2-1 in '47.

PA (Which became PA TJ) - played in a division that went to State.   Those teams are listed above.

Orange- (Precursor to WOS) had several good seasons in the 19-teens and 1920s but I don't see any playoff information.  *EDIT* See playoff history at the top of the post*

Beaumont- Played in the 1A division once the playoffs were created so played the full bracket.

 

 

 

 

 

[purpleeagle]

On 3/21/2024 at 3:28 PM, CardinalBacker said:

There must be some mistake.... I don't see Silsbee anywhere on this list. 

 

Gosh, even Bridge City has a state champion. What about Jasper?