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An Historical Study of the Midland Trial Athletic Conference
Leland E. (Gene) Tolliver
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THE MIDLAND TRAIL ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (TITLE)
BY Leland E. (Gene) Tolliver
PLAN B PAPER
SUBMITIED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION AND PREPARED IN COURSE
EDUCATION 582
IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL, EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS
1968 YEAR
I HEREBY RECOMMEND THIS PLAN B PAPER BE ACCEPTED AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE DEGREE, M.S. IN ED.
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Chapter I. INTRODUCTION· • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 Statement of Purpose Definition of Terms Procedures of Study ~imitations of the Study
II. ORGANIZATION OF THE MIDLAND TRAIL· 4
III. THE SPORTS DIVISION OF THE MIDLAND TRAIL • • 11 The Baseball Divison The Cross Country Division The Basketball Division The Track Divismon IV. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS· • 22
APP~NDICES• • 24
BIBLIOGRAPHY· • 50 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to express my appreciation to Mr. V. D. Shafer,
Mr. Guy Magill, Mr. Paul Monical, Mr. H. M. Waddle, Mr. Guy Kimpling, and others for their assistance in obtaining the data for this paper.
I would like to express my appreciation to Dr. Matzner and Dr.
Shuff.for their assistance in the absence of my advisor, Dr. Garner.
ii LIST OF TABLES
Table Page 1. Past M.T~C. Baseball Champions •••••••••••••••••••••••• 30 2. Past M.T.c. Cross Country Champions...... 31 3. Past M.T.C. Basketball League Champions...... 32 4. Past M.T.c. Track Champions ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 33
5. Past M.T.C. Basketball 'lburnament Champions ••••••••••• 34 6. Winners in 100 Yard Dash...... 35 7. Winners in 220 Yard Dash...... 35 8. Winners in 440 Yard Dash...... 36 9. Winners in 880 Yard Run...... 36
10. Winners in Mile Run ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 37
11. Winners in High Jump •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 37
12. Winners in Long_Jump •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 38
13. Winners in Pole Vault ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 38 14. Winners in Shot Put •••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••.••• 39 15. Winners in Discus Throw...... 39 16. Winners in 880 Relay...... 40
17. Winners in Mile Relay ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 40
18. Winners in 70 High Hurdles •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 41
19. Winners in 120 Low Hurdles •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 41
20. Winners in Two Mile Run...... 42 21. Winners in 50 Yard Dash...... 42
22. Winners in Baseball Throw...... 42
23. Past Individual Cross Country Winners...... 43 24. Schools Compiling Perfect League Basketball Records... 43
25. Midland Trail Frosh Soph Basketball Tourney Champions. 44
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iii LIST OF TABLES(CONT'D)
Table Page
26. Midland Trail Frosh Soph Track and Field Champions... 44
27. Midland Trail Varsity Track Records...... 45
28. Midland Trail Frosh Soph Track Records...... 45
29. Position of Finish fer current M.T.C. Baseball Teams. 46
30. Position of Finish for Current M.T.C. X-Country Teams 46
31. Position of Finish for current M.T.C. Bask'ball Teams 47
32. Position of Finish for Current M.T.C. Track Teams.... 47
33. Coaches of the Year...... 48
34. Recent M.T.C. Administrators...... 48
35. Championships Won by M.T.C. Member Schools...... 49
36. Schools Holding Membership in M.T.c. Since Founding.. 49
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CHAPTEF_ I
INTRODUCTION
Officials who work in the H.idland Trail Conference are faced with
decisions which need to be made with reference to precedents already
established in fonner years. Changes in rules, regulations and
policy must be discussed, voted upon and passed with only the memories
of two men, who have been in the league since its inception in 1929,
to rely upon. The only other available source of past records is the
partial file of old conference minutes, found in varying degrees of
completeness, located in each office of the member schools. In the
very near future these men will retire, and the need for some kind
of pennanent record will become more acute. It was this primary reason
which brought the writer to undertake the job to compile an historical
and record-bearing paper.
This paper will serve to answer the following questions: (1) What
has the league done in the past? (2) What precedent has been established
for this action? (3) What teams have won in the various sports? In
what years? (4) Who was the coach of each of those teams? (5) v.There
were these events held?
The turnover of conference officials is another reason for the
importance and necessity of the preparation of such a paper. The Midland
Trail Conference would like to use this work as their Official Q_'!J-d~.
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DEFINITION OF TERMS
M.~_g_.--The Midland Trail Conference (athletic) located in southeastern Illinois, whose membership varies from six to eight schools.
Conference--A group of sch~ols, clubs, etc., banded together to promote activities of mutual interest. In this case, baseball, cross country, basketball and track.
Administrator--The person functioning as the school leader.
Coach-- will be limited to the head mentor in each of the various sports
Educatio~--The social process by which people are subjected to the influence of a selected and controlled environment so that they 1 may attain social competence and optimum individual development.
1carter V. Good, Dictionary of Education, (New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959), p. 191.
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PROCEDURE OF STUDY
The operation of the M.T.C. has been directly influenced by past precedent or past history, but this information has been supplied from the memories of individuals whose tenure in the conference dates back to its beginning. It was hoped an historical guideline, which provides for updating annually, would become the guiding source for years to come. In this study a table of all past athletic team winners (by sport), past coaches (by sport) and past administrators (by school) will be compiled with provision for addition to the table for five years. The M.T.C. constitution and by-laws will be included with space for additional amendments.
The M.T.C. will be traced chronologically with emphasis on the various sports, schools and tournaments. Changes in the philosophy of administering the M.T.C. will be treated in as much detail as the data will allow. Major changes in the league organization will be described in similar manner.
Sources of data for this study were past newspaper accounts, interviews with persons in the M.T.C. at its beginning and past M.T.C. minutes which were located through various trips to the schools. 5
LIMITATIONS OF STUDY - This study will be limited to those activities classified as athletic by the M.T.C. It will be further limited by the unavailability of minutes or
newspaper accounts for various periods of time.
When a person has been in the league for a number of years he may
be inclined to. exaggerate the actual account of past performances or
his memory of those sports he coached may be tinted by sentiment. This
could obscure some of the information attained from interviews.
Finally, the newspaper accounts were written for the local papers
by the coach a greater portion of the time. CHAPTER II
ORGANIZATION OF THE MIDLAND TRAIL
The original Midland Trail Conference was organized about December of 1928. It sponsored a track meet for the member schools in the spring of 1929. The meet was won by Noble. The first basketball league and tournament was operated in the 1929-30 school year. 2 This was its first full school season of operation.
The original members were Xenia, Iuka, Sumner, Clay City, Noble and Louisville.3 The name was derived from routes 45 and 50, portions of which were called the Old Midland Trail. An old hotel located in
Flora, along a strip where 45 and 50 run concurrently, still bears the name, The Midland Trail Hotel. There is also speculation that only route 50 was the Midland Trail, since all schools except Louisville were located along this route. Louisville is on highway 45.
Of the original six team league, Xenia and Iuka were three-year high schools, meaning their students had to transfer to another school 4 to complete their senior or twelfth year.
The record of league proceedings is obscured for the next period of five years due to a loss of secretary's minutes. However, sometime during this period Dundas and Cisne were added making an eight-member
2Interview with Guy Magill, June 3, 1968.
3The Clay County Republican (Louisville), February 7, 1930, p. 1.
~inutes of Spring meeting, March 18, 1936, Midland Trail Conference, Clay City, Illinois, (in the files of the conference secretary).
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conference. which was the maximum number of members granted under the original constitution. Both these entries were three-year schools.
Dundas is located about five miles north of Olney along route 130.
In 1938 Iuka lost their school and withdrew from the conference.
They were absorbed by Salem. Then in 1941, Olney took Dundas into their syste~, .. and the league was deleted to six schools once again • The league had begun to look around for possible replacements in the fall of 1939. Flat Rock was extended an invitation to join, effective the 1939-1940 school year. They had most of the M.T.C. schools on their schedule of athletic contests, but for reasons unknown they refused the invitation.5
Mt. Erie accepted an invitation in March, 1941, but was not. shown as a member of the league in 1941. They paid their dues for the
1940-41 school year and participated in the basketball tournament.
There is no written record of their withdraw!. It is speculated they did not schedule games as required by the conference rules and were dropped at the close of the 1941 year. 6
During the fall of 1941, Claremont requested consideration as a replacement for Dundas. Claremont is west of Olney and about one mile south of route 50. An excerpt from a letter written September 4,
1941, by J. Harold Diel reads as follows:
I would like to put Claremont in the Midland Trail Conference in place of Dundas if the teams we play will pay us 6 cents per mile for the entire squad for one game. Since we have only a dirt court we would probably need to play both games away from home.
5Minutes of meeting, March, 1940, Midland Trail Conference, Clay City, Illinois, (in the files of the conference secretary).
~agill, loc. cit. () ~)
Mr. Diel also stated that his school had a government grant for building - a gymnasium which would probably be completed by the next basketball season. Claremont was rejected by the M.T.C. for lack of a playing 7 facility in the fall of 1941.
At the same meeting the league officials voted to extend invitations
to Odin and Farina LaGrove. There is no written record of Odin's response,
but Farina's superintendent, Ianthus Krutsinger, replied by letter
October 15, 1941, that the Lagrave school would be happy to become a 8 member of the M.T.C. This addition to the conference opened the door
for the Midland Trail to look in a northwesterly direction for members.
Due to the war, track was dropped from the league program after the
1942 meet. Through the efforts of Elmo Hilderbrand, it was revived again
in 1951-52. Some of the schools played softball on a limited basis, but
it was never sponsored by the conference. 9
In March of 1944 the Kinmundy-Alma high school was admitted to me111ber-
ship, raaking the second northwestern school. This brought the H.T.C. back
to a full eight school league. It lasted only three years as Xenia was
absorbed into the Flora high school for the 1948-49 season. The conference
then extended invitations to three schools: Payne City, St. Anthony of
Effingham, and Odin. They were to be contacted one at a time in the order
listed. Wayne City rejected the invitation immediately. St. Anthony
accepted, notifying the conference of their desire to play in the conference
tournament the first year and then play a Midland Trail schedule the
7Minutes of Fall meeting, September, 1941, Midland Trail Conference, Clay City, Illinois, (in the files of the conference secretary).
8----rbid. 9 Interview with Virgil D. Shafer, June 7, 1966. 9
following season. They were permitted to do this. They played in the
1949-50 tourney, received an invitation to become a member of the National
Trail Conference and accepted without completing the 1950-51 M.T.C.
schedule. This was the shortest tenure of any member in the league's
h is. t ory. 10
Baseball came into the conference as the official fall sport in
the 1946-47 school year, seventeen years after its first full season of
operation. Seventeen years later, in 1963-64, cross-country was added,
making the current four-sport program.
In the spring meeting of 1955, six-man football was brought up and
discussed. All schools were asked to check with their respective boards
and officials as to the possibility of participating in such a football
program. Football was voted down 4-3 by the M.T.C. administrators.
In 1956 Dieterich applied for admission to the M.T.C. They were
accepted in the spring of 1957, being allowed to compete in the annual
track meet. They competed in all sports for the first time in 1957-58.
The school had not had an athletic program for several years prior to
1956.
The admission of Dieterich brought about a revision of the constitution
and by-laws, which can be found in the appendices. Table I shows the
M.T.C. membership from its beginning to 1968.
In the fall of 1967, Sumner gave notice of their being accepted into
the Little Ten conference, leaving Clay City, Noble, and Louisville as the
only original members. Sumner had long been the smallest school in the
1Magill, loc. cit. "- 10
conference and felt it would be to their advantage to get into a league whose member schools were of similar enrollment.
Ramsey High School accepted the opportunity to replace Sumner.
It is located north of Vandalia and will play a full M.T.C. schedule in 1968-69. - CHAPTER III
THE. SPOR';t'S DIVISION OF THE MIDLAND TRAIL
THE BASEBALL DIVISION
Baseball was adopted as a conference sponsored sport in 1946-47.
Softball had been played by several of the member schools during the
war years, but was never adopted by this league. Most of the schools
had baseball in the early 1930's but never banned together a league.
Kinmundy, which did not come into the conference until 1944, fielded 11 a baseball team in 1931.
There were no strict rules governing the number of games or times
each school must play in order to be declared the conference champion
during the first few years. Around 1949, the conference was divided
into two divisions, Eastern and Western. Kinmundy, Farina and Louisville
were assigned to the Western segment and Noble, Clay City, Cisne, and
Sumner were to make up the Eastern division. The winners in each of
these divisions were to meet on a neutral diamond in a one-game play-off
to determine the conference champion. The school furnishing the neutral
diamond also hired the umpire. Other schools, not involved in the play
off, furnished the remaining officials.
In 1956 an attempt at bringing free substitution into conference
games was defeated by a vote of 5-2. Free substitution would.have
11The Clay County Republican (Louisville), May 12, 1930, p. 1.
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allowed a player, removed from the game for one reason or another by
his coach, to re-enter the contest provided he did not come to bat
earlier than he would have in the original order.
When Dieterich came into the league i.n 1957-58, they were assigned
to the Western division making four teams in each group.
The play-off was moved from a neutral field to the field of one
of the participants through the efforts of Art Manwaring, coach at
Farina LaGrove in 1960. His motion to alternate the play-off between
the Easten and Westen winners on a year to year basis was accepted
unanimously. He pointed out that at least one of the schools could
have their student body at the game this way; whereas, this would not
be the case on a neutral diamond. The game up to this point was poorly
attended.
Baseball titles were evenly distributed in early years as
five different schools won in the first six years. Cisne was the first
school to win two consecutive titles under coach Dale Huff in 1952-53 and
1953-54. The only time that baseball became dominated by one team for
any length of time was by the Clay City team of coach Jim Maxedon. They won five straight championships from 1960 to 1964. Baseball winners can
be found in the appendices of this paper.
~ ... THE CROSS-COUNTRY DIVISION
Cross-country was adopted as a conference sport in the spring of
1963. Three schools were actively engaged in the sport before its
acceptance into the M.T.C. These were Dieterich, Farina and Clay City.
Dieterich and Farina had been playing a schedule for four years and
Clay City had participated one year.
The first conference meet was held at Louisville Community Park
on October 15, 1963, with Clay City finishing ahead of Farina, Dieterich,
and Louisville. The other four league schools chose not to compete in
this first meet. The winning Clay City troup placed six individuals in
the top ten finishers.
Most of the work in establishing the sport within the Midland Trail
was provided by Stan Martin, coach at Dieterich and Art Manwaring, coach
at Farina LaGrove. These two athletic-minded gentlemen had initiated the
sport in their respective schools as a conditioner for basketball players •.
However, when Farina produced a state district champion in the fall of
1962, it created a great deal of enthusiasm among other schools within
the M.T.C. The district champion's name was Jim Ramsey.
In 1964 Cisne and Noble also added cross country and competed in
the league meet at Louisville on October 17, 1964. Cisne finished second
·behind champion Clay City.
The same six teams competed at Louisville again in the 1965 meet.
This time the two newcomers from the previous year, Cisne and Noble,
had the first two individual place winners, Ken Tinley and Steve Swinson. - 13 14
Tl>e site of the annual meet shifted from Louisville to Cisne in
1966. Louisville, host for the first three meets, did not compete.
Kinmundy fielded a team for the first time, but finished last in the
six team field.
The conference meet shifted back to Louisville in the fall of 1967
with Dieterich winning the title. Clay City had won all four previous
meets. The Dieterich coach, D. A. Winkler, was named coach of the
year in the sport. Burl Griffith was the individual winner.
At the spring meeting in March of 1968 Clay City was named host of
the meet for the coming fall.
The league produced four state competitors in its first five years
of competition. They were Jim Ramsey, Duane Thomann of Noble in 1966,
Don Cash of Clay City and Burl Griffith of Dieterich in 1967. Only
Ramsey was a district winner.
THE BASKETBALL DIVISION
Basketball was the sport which actually brought the !:'. T .C. into
existence in 1929-39. Although track was sponsored in the spring of 1929,
the a dministrators and Coaches. conceived the idea of the Midland Tr Conference for the purpose of promoting a basketball tournament. ~:ob le, under the direction of Guy Kimpling, dominated the league and the tournament for five consecutive years after its inception. Their string of conference titles was brought to a close in 1934'"'-35 when Dundas compiled a perfect record by winning all twelve of their league games. Despite the perfect record, Noble still managed to win the tournament under new coach H. H. Faddle. The first tournament was scheduled to be played at Noble, but was 12 moved to Louisville when the boiler at the Noble school broke down.. Coach Waddle brought Noble another league and tournament champion- ship in 1935-36. In 1936-37 Clay City stopped the Noble domination under Coach Virgil D. Shafer by winning both the league title and the tournament. This marked the beginning of seven consecutive league championships for Clay City and Mr. Shafer. During that seven years they won the tourney five times. They were upset by Cisne in. 1938-39 and by Noble in 1939-40. V. R. Wheatley guided the Clay City team to the last of this string of seven titles in the absence of Shafer, who had gone into the armed forces. The Noble domination must have caused some concern in the early years because the conference was divided into classes for the 1936-37 tournament. Class A was to be the four-year high schools and Class B 13 the three-year institutions. Each Class A school had to play another Class A school in the first round games. The same applied to the Class B schools. This was to insure at least two Class B schools being represented ir ':he semi-final games. This change was dropped after one year. The motive behind such a move is not clear. Speculation seems to indicate there was a desire for more closely contested first round games and an increase in attendance at these sessions. The Clay City squad put together three straight undefeated 11.T.C. teams from 1941 through 1943. From the first two of these teams came 12Magill, ].oc. cit~ 13Minutes of fall meeting, September, 1936, Midland Trail Conference, Clay City, Illinois, (in the files of the conference secretary). 16 one of the league's finest players, Elmo Hilderbrand. In various newspaper articles he was compared to Dike Eddleman of Centralia. Eddleman went on to fame at the University of Illinois while Hilderbrand went to Eastern Illinois State College. He later coached at Louisville in this conference. During the war years, the league and tournament titles were passed around among four of the schools. It was during this period that Eldon (Cotton) Tungate played for Louisville and established himself as one of the M.T.C. greats. In one ga'lle in which his team was victorious, Tungate scored 34 of their 43 points. This was five more than the opposing team tallied. Twenty-point performances were very unusual during that period of time, and for one to score thirty was classified in the fantastic realm. In 1947 Frank Schack tried to bring a freshman-sophomore tournament into the conference. Although his initial efforts were futjle, he did succeed two years later when the H.T.C. adopted a tourney for the 1949-50 school year. It has continued ever since. He also tried during that same meeting in 1947 to get a consolation bracket attached to the varsity tournament. Accoriding to the conference minutes, tfais motion was passed after considerable discussion. The consolation bracket was dropped later and resumed again in 1958 after the league returned to an eight school membership. During the 1948 meetings it was voted to give 10 percent of tbe tournament profits to the conference treasury. This practice still exists. !:::Imo Hilderbrand, mentioned earlier in this paper, brought the Louisville team their first perfect H.T.C. record and their first tournament title in the school's history in the 1952-53 school year. Louisville 17 bad won the league title only once before. The next prominent era in the basketball picture was the 1956-58 period dominated by Steve Shan. Shan led Noble to three conference and three trounament titles in his four years on the varsity. An article appearing in the Decatur Herald newspaper proclaimed Shan the third Iv:.• T. C. great. The first two were Hilderbarnd and Tungate. The year following Shan's graduation the Kinmundy Hornets of coach Jim Wasem breezed through an entire season and twenty-seven straight games before bowing to Centralia in the regional tou~nament. As far as the record shows it is the only perfect season ever accomplished by a Midland Trail basketball team. Thirteen schools have put together undefeated league records during the forty year history of the conference. The 1957 conference meetings brought about two key items of business. Following a proposal by Carl Sexton of Clay City, the league adopted a basketball banquet to honor the league's top ten players. This practice is still followed in the Midland Trail. Stan Martin, coach of the new Dieter1ch entry, ·noved for seeding the tournament '.s top four teams and drawing the remaining four by chance. The motion carried. Two attempts at changing this practice by seeding all eight teams has proved unsuccessful in recent years. In the 1960's Louisville and Clay City dominated the tournament picture, however, this was not the case with the league titles. At this writing the two Clay county schools had won the past nine tournaments but had failed to win the league on five diffe:rent occasions. This would point to an improvement in the balanced play of the Midland Trail Conference. The writer ntoes that during the M.T.C.'s forty years Sumner has won the conference once, but never the tournament. Cisne has won the tourney (1939), c but never the conference. Farina has won both, but never in the same year. Basketball statistics appear in the appendices. THE TRACK DIVISION Track is the oldest of M.T.C. sponsored activities. It has been a part of the Midland Trail Conference program from 1929 to the present with the exception of a period during and after World War II. It was the only sport contested in the 1928-29 school year within the M.T.C. The events on the first program were runs of SO, 100, 220, 440, and 880 yards, an 880 yard relay, a mile run, throwing the shot, discus, and javelin, high jumping, broad jumping and pole vaulting. Noble captured that first meet. Sumner won the 1929-30 encounter and no record of the 1930-31 winner could be located. For the following five years Guy Kimpling and H. M. Waddle kept Noble in the winner's bracket. Virgil D. Shafer's 1937 Clay City team brought the Noble streak to a close and began a six year span of its own. The number of participants a school could enter was unlimited during this time. If a school had the five best boys in an event, they could have won all the points for that particular event. In 1937 a limitation of three boys per school was established for the 50, 100 and 220 yard dashes, but the other events remained unlimited. In 1938 the Midland Trail followed the state decision and eliminated the javelin throw from its program. It was replaced by the baseball throw to keep the program at thirteen events. The Sumner team set an 880 relay record in 1938 which withstood the ensuing conference meets until Noble broke it in 1961. c 18 lfl In tl•e spring of 1939, a Xenia junior r..amec~ Rogers, set three conference records which still stand. The events in ~vhich they were established were the 50, 100 and 220 yard dashes. The 50 will stand forever since the event has since been dropped from the meet. (See appendices). Clay City dominated the meet in 1940, 1941 and 1942. Elmo Hilderbrand established three records which have since been broken. He was too old to compete in track during his senior year of school. At that time an athlete could not have reached his twentieth birthday. Now he must not have reached his nineteenth birthday. Hilderbrand's age, therefore, accounts for some of his fine performances. Following the 1942 seaso'n i:rack was dropped from the M. T .C. program. It was revived again in 1951-52 by Hilderbrand, then coaching at Louisville. He had made an attempt to get it into the league in 1951, but could not get a majority of members to cast an affirmative vote. His attempt in 1952 brought a positive response anci the \Udland Trail awarded Louisville the 1952 meet. It was the only conference track title ever won by the Louisville team. In March of 1953, the conference officials placed a limitation on the number of events each participant could enter. It limited competitors to two running and one field event or two field and one running event excluding relays. However, no limitation was placed on the number of contestants a school could enter in each event. The rule was passed to keep one boy from dominating a track meet. It would appear that the rule was made with Trevor Pearce of Clay City in mind. He won each event in which he was entered the previous year as a sophomore. 20 Ee competed in six events in one meet during 1953 before taking part in the Hidland Trail meet two weeks later. In 1956, Jim Brandon came into the league as Clay City coach and led his sthletes to four straight titles before losing to Dieterich by two points in 1960. Clay City has won each meet since that time. Stan Martin, the Dieterich coach, contributed heavily to the present track and field set-up. It was his efforts that got the So yard dash and the baseball throw deleted from the program. He introduced the present high and low hurdle races a.nd the mile relay in 1959. Up to this time the 880 had been the league's only relay race. During Martin's stay at Dieterich, the school produced more conference champions in track than any school outside of perennial winner, Clay City. Dieterich athletes currently hold conference records in the high jump, low hurdles, discus, two-mile run, and high hurdles. (See appendices) Severl outstanding individual tracksters have been produced by the Midland Trail since 1960. In 1961, Bill Rudolphi won the 880 in record time and set a new district record in the mile run. In 1962 Loren Conard of Cisne became the first :M.T.C. athlete to top twelve feet in·the pole vault. A teammate named Gary Atteberry won the high hurdles, low hurdles and high jump in the conference meet that year. Gene Stremming of Dieterich was the league's first 150 foot discus thrower. He and Clay City's George Toler topped fifty feet in the shot. 21 In 1964, Clay City's Cy Long won twenty-one consecutive times in the braod jump without defeat. He lacked one-half inch becoming the conference's only twenty-two foot broad jumper. In 1965, Allen Williams of Louisville broke four school records and set a new M.T.C. record in the quarter mile. He and Dan Patridge both dipped under 52 seconds. In 1966, Carl Patridge went unbeaten in the high hurdles before being sidelined for the season. In 1967, distance runs brought the Midland Trail to the front in southern Illinois as Duane Thomann of Noble and Burl Griffith of Dieterich both won and established new records in the state district meets. Thomann won the mile and Griffith the two-mile. To make it more impressive John Stoltz of Sumner was second to Thomann in the mile. The present freshman sophomore meet was inaugerated in 1961 through the efforts of Jim Brandon. He hosted the first meet as an invitational affair and the M.T.C. adopted it the following year as part of their program.. Individual winners, team winners and other important data concerning the M.T.C. track program is compiled in the appendices. c CRAPTEB. IV Sffi.1t1ARY Al\1D RECO:MME1'1DATIONS The historical study has accoMplished its purpose by providing an up-to-date record of the Midland Trail Conference. This record is !'_ot complete as some information and data were unavailable to the writer. With the exception of two years, 1931 (track winner unavailable) and 1956 (baseball winnner unavailable), the team winners were traced from the leaeue's opening year to the present. Table 36 shows the numcer fo l1:i.dland Trail titles won by each of the present members. This study can be used as a reference or handbook by the officials of the Midland Trail Conference in their future meetings. Space has been provided for additional entries through another five years at vrl1ich time a revision would probably be in order. The conference has had fourteen different members, but the maximum membership at any time was eight. This limitation is now a part of the constitution. Since 1943 the league has had better balance and a diversity of title winners. With the exception of track, no school has dominated a given spot for any length of time. The writer of this paper makes the following reconnnendations: 1. The constitution and by-laws be revised with a new entry (Ramsey) coming into the league for the 1968-69 school year. 2. The records section of this paper be kept up to date. 3. The secretary record in the spring minutes the important data concerning baseball, cross country, and basketball. c 22 23 4. The secretary record in the fall minutes the important data - concerning the track of the previous year. - 5. The officers of the conference plan a 1972 revision of this paper. 6. The coaches of the member schools send the conference secretary a resume of their sports record. 7. The M.T.C. look into the possibility of appointing someone to fulfill the role of executive secretary. 24 APPENDIX A The Midland Trail Constitution and By Laws 25 THE CONSTITUTION AND EY LAWS OF THE MIDLAND TRAIL RIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE .. _., Article I - J\Tame Section 1 This organization shall be known as the Midland Trail High School Conference Article II - Purpose Section 1 The purpose of this organization shall be to promote athletic and other activities of mutual interest to the member schools. Article III - Membership Section 1 This conference shall include the following schools: Cisne, Clay City, Dieterich, Kinmundy, LaGrove (Farina), Louisville, Noble, Sumner. Section 2 The maximum number of schools shall be eight. Section 3 Changes in membership shall be proposed by the board of control and must be approved by a majority vote of the members. Section 4 For convenience in carrying out certain activities it shall be permissible to divide the conference into Eastern and Western divisions as determined by a vote of the members. Article IV - Officers Section 1 The officers of this conference shall be president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer, who shall constitute the Board of Control. Only high school principals shall be elected to office. Section 2 Officers shall be elected for one year. Eelection shall occur on the third Monday of March of each year at 7:30 P.H. Section 3 The president shall be elected on alternate years from the East and West divisions of the conference. Article V - Meetings Section 1 The conference shall meet in regular sessions on the third Mondays of September and March at 7:30 P.H. Section 2 Each meeting shall be held at Clay City. 26 Article V (cont'd) Section 3 Special meetings shall be called by the president upon written request of at least three schools. At least three days notice of special meeting shall be given. The notice shall also state the purpose of the meeting. Section 4 · The principal ot his authorized representative from a majority of member schools shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Each school shall have one vote on every question. Article VI - Funds Section 1 A majority of schools shall determine all necessary expenditures of money. Section 2 The annual dues of each member of the conference shall be five dollars. This is to be paid on or before October 15, upon due notice by secretary. Section 3 All funds from all sources shall be deposited with the conference secretary-treasurer. Section 4 Deficits shall be shared equally by all member schools. Article VII - Board of Control Section 1 The Board of Control shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur. Persons elected shall serve until the next regular meeting of the conference. Article VIII - Amendments Section 1 The Constitution and By Laws of this Conference may be amended by a majority vote at any regular meeting provided the proposed amendment has been submitted to the secretary not less than one month before a regular meeting. A copy of proposed amendments shall be submitted by the secretary to the principal of each school at least one week before the meeting. Article IX Section 1 This constitution shall go into effect when ratified by a majority vote of the members of the conference. 27 BY LAWS Article I - Compliance with I.H.S.A. Section 1 This conference shall comply with all Illinois Righi School Association By Laws. Article II - Schedule of Activities Seciton 1 Each school shall play each member two regularly scheduled basketball games. Any school failing to schedule as above, shall not be considered in determining the conference championship. Section 2 Any school refusing to play a scheduled game shall forfeit the game. Responsibility in this matter shall be determined at a special or regular meeting. Section 3 An annual conference tournament shall be held at a site determined at the regular March meeting during the week of the last Friday of January. Section Lf An annual freshman sophomore basketball tournament shall be held, at a site determined at the regular March meeting, during the week of but not on conflicting days with the State sectional tournament. Section 5 Baseball shall be the official fall sport of the conference. The championship shall be determined by a play off between the Eastern and Western division winners. Section 6 Track shall be the official spring sport of the conference. The champion shall be determined at a conference track meet. This section has been amended as follows: All I.H.S.A. rules and regulations shall be followed with the following limitation- A boy may enter one field, two running and one relay OR two field, one running and one relay OR two relays and one field. Section 7 The conference shall sponsor and if necessary subsidize an annual band festival. Section 8 An annual cross country meet shall be held, at a site determined at the regular March meeting, on the third Saturday of October- Article III - Trophies Section 1 Championship trophies shall be awarded in basketball, track and baseball. The cost of each trophy is not to exceed $30.00. 28 Article III (cont'd) Section 2 Championship, second and consolation trophies shall be given at the annual conference varsity and frosh-soph tourneys. A maximum of $75 is to be spent for the varsity trophies and $45 for the frosh soph trophies. A minor trophy is to be purchased for the annual cross country champion. Article IV - Annual Banquet Section 1 The conference shall sponsor an annual basketball banquet during the fourth week of March. Host schools for this banquet shall be rotated as follows: Clay City 1964, Kinmundy 1965, Dieterich 1966, LaGrove 1967, Cisne 1968, Noble 1969, Sumner 1970, Louisville 1971. Section 2 An all star team of ten players, as selected by coaches at the Harch meeting, shall be announced at this time~ Hiniature basketball awards shall be presented each player. 29 ·- APPENDIX B Midland Trail Team and Individual Records and Listings 30 TABLE 1 PAST M.T.C. BASEB.At.L CHAMPIONS YBAR SCHOOL COACH 1947 Louisville Jones 1948 Clay City Schack 1949 Noble Taylor 1950 Farina LaGrove Hilbolt 1951 Clay City Somers 1952 Kinmundy Brummett 1953 Cisne Huff 1954 Cisne Huff 1955 Farina LaGrove Th.weatt 1956 unknown 1957 Kinmundy Lietz 1958 Kinmundy Wasem 1959 Kinmundy Wasem 1960 Clay City Fehrenbacher 1961 Clay City Maxedon 1962 Clay City Maxedon 1963 Clay City Maxedon 1964 Clay City Maxedon 1965 Kinmundy Jones 1966 Farina LaGrove Smith 1967 Farina LaGrove Sarver 1968 Farina LaGrove Sarver 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 31 TABLB 2 PAST M.T.C. CROSS-CXJUNTRY CHAMPIONS YBAR SCHOOL COACH 1964 Clay City 'lblliver 1965 Clay City 'lblliver 1966 Clay City Tolliver 1967 Clay City Tolliver 1968 :•.. :{ Dieterich Winkler 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 32 !i~~ 'w' TABLE 3 PAST 1!1.T.C. BASKETBALL LBAGUB CHAMPIONS YBAR SCHOOL COACH 1930 Noble Kimpling 1931 Noble Kimpling 1932 Noble Kimpling 1933 Noble Kimpling 1934 Noble Kimpling 1935 Dundas Ullom 1936 Noble Waddle 1937 Clay City Shafer 1938 Clay City Shafer 1939 Clay City Shafer 1940 Clay City Shafer 1941 Clay City Shafer 1942 Clay City Shafer 1943 Clay City Wheatley 1944 Noble Waddle 1945 Clay City Schack 1946 Noble-Clay City Waddle-McDonald 1947 Noble-Kinmundy Taylor-McGuire 1948 Noble Taylor 1949 Noble Taylor 1950 Louisville Phillips 1951 Clay City Somers 1952 Noble Taylor 1953 Louisville Hilderbrand 1954 Louisville Milosevich 1955 Campbell _, Noble 1956 Farina LaGrove Manwaring 1957 Noble Rector 1958 Noble Rector 1959 Kinmundy Wasem 1960 Sumner Pinkstaff 1961 Kinmundy McNealy 1962 ·Dieterich Martin 1963 Louisville Heeren 1964 Louisville Heeren 1965 Clay City Maxedon 1966 Clay City Maxedon 1967 Kinmundy ..Tones 1968 Dieterich Fancher 1969 1970 c 1971 33 .. t~"' ~ TABLB 4 PAST M.T.C. TRACK CHAMPIONS YEAR SCHOOL COACH 1929 Noble unknown 1930 Sumner Smith 1931 1932 Noble Kimpling 1933 Noble Kimpling 1934 Noble . Kimpling 1935 Noble Waddle 1936 Noble Waddle 1937 Clay City Shafer 1938 Clay City Shafer 1939 Clay City Shafer 1940 Clay City Shafer 1941 Clay City Shafer 1942 Clay City Shafer 1943 1944 1945 1946 NO MBBT IN THESE YEARS 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 Louisville Hilderbrand 1953 Clay City Watts 1954 Clay City Watts 1955 Noble Campbell 1956 Clay City Brandon 1957 Clay City Brandon 1958 Clay City Brandon 1959 Clay City Brandon 1960 Dieterich Martin 1961 Clay City Brandon 1962 Clay City Tolliver 1963 Clay City Tolliver 1964 Clay City Tolliver 1965 Clay City Tolliver 1966 Clay City Tolliver 1967 Clay City Tolliver 1968 Clay City Curtis 1969 _,,,,.,,.. ~ 1970 1971 34 <>1f-~- .. ~lllV TABLE 5 PAST M.T.C. BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS YEAR SCHOOL COACH 1930 Noble Kinipling 1931 Noble Kimpling 1932 Noble Kimpling 1933 Noble Kimpling 1934 Noble Kimpling 1935 Noble Waddle 1936 Noble Waddle 1937 Clay City Shafer 1938 Clay City Shafer 1939 Cisne Taylor 1940 Noble Roy 1941 Clay City Shafer 1942 Clay City Shafer 1943 Clay City Wheatley 1944 Noble Waddle 1945 Farina LaGrove Monical 1946 Noble Waddle 1947 Farina LaGrove Monica! 1948 Noble Taylor 1949 Noble Taylor 1950 Noble Taylor 1951 Clay City Somers 1952 Noble Taylor 1953 Louisville Hilderbrand 1954 Clay City Watts 1955 Clay City Watts 1956 Noble Westall 1957 Noble Rector 1958 Noble Rector 1959 Kinmundy Wasem 1960 Louisville Beach 1961 Louisville Beach 1962 Louisville Heeren 1963 Louisville Heeren 1964 Louisville Heeren 1965 Clay City Maxedon 1966 Clay City Maxedon 1967 Louisville cunning 1968 Clay City McDaniel 1969 1970 c 1971 1972 35 ,,,.'ff, ...... , TABLE 6 WINNERS IN 100 YARD DASH YBAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 L. Dunigan Clay City 11.0 1955 Eagleton Noble 11.0 1956 Taylor Clay City 10.6 1957 Harrison Clay City 11.2 1958 M. Dunigan Clay City 10.5 1959 Zi11111erman Clay City 10.6 1960 Weidner Noble 10.5 1961 Atteberry Cisne 10.4 1962 Bricker Clay City 10.45 1963 Williams Louisville 10.3 1964 Williams Louisville 10.3 1965 Williams Louisville 10.4 1966 Barbee Louisville 11.0 1967 Jahraus Farina LaGrove 10.6 1968 .Jahraus Farina LaGrove 10.7 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 7 WINNBRS IN 220 YARD DASH YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 Pearce Clay City 24.0 1955 Eagleton Noble 25.3 1956 Taylor Clay City 23.6 1957 McKenzie Louisville 23.8 1958 Herdes Clay City 24.6 1959 Smith Cisne 25.S 1960 Weidner Noble 23.6 1961 Weidner Noble 23.8 1962 Bricker Clay City 23.9 1963 Reynolds Farina LaGrove 24.0 1964 Williams Louisville 23.4 1965 D. Patridge Clay City 24.0 1966 Barbee Louisville 24.1 1967 Do. Ryker Clay City 23.3 1968 Do. Ryker Clay City 24.5 1969 '~ ~ 1970 1971 36 ,.p1liilfi,~ .., TABLE 8 WINNBRS IN 440 YARD DASH YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 G. Tolliver Louisville 56.4 1955 G. Tolliver Louisville 54.0 1956 Coleman Louisville 58.0 1957 ~erwonka Dieterich 57.0 1958 Czerwonka Dieterich 55.3 1959 Bissey Clay City 55.6 1960 Turner Louisville 54.3 1961 Turner Louisville 54.9 1962 S. Greenwood Noble 54.1 1963 Fulk Clay City 53.85 1964 Delaney Clay City 55.4 1965 Williams Louisville 51.7 1966 McClain Dieterich 54.4 1967 Wolfe Clay City 53.2 1968 Da. Ryker Clay City 54.2 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 9 WINNERS IN 880 YARD RUN YBAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 Peaece Clay City 2:07.2 1955 Jones Kinmundy 2:19.2 1956 Browning Clay City 2:18.0 1951 Sperry Dieterich 2:17.5 1958 Sperry Dieterich 2:17.3 1959 Bangert Clay City 2:16.0 1960 B. Rudolphi Clay City 2:09.5 1961 B. Rudolphi Clay City 2:05.4 1962 D. Greenwood Noble 2:08.7 1963 Da. Carder Clay City 2:06.7 1964 T. Rudolphi Clay City 2:08.1 1965 Pryor Clay City 2:09.5 1966 McClain Dieterich 2:08.4 1967 'lhomann Noble 2:07.1 1968 Schottman Dieterich 2:10.5 1969 c 1970 1971 37 ,,.,.., TABLE 10 Wl'NNERS IN MILE RUN. YEAR NAME,;, SCHOOL MARK 1954 Wiiliams Clay City 5:30.2 1955 Wade Noble 5:02.0 1956 Browning Cl ey City 5:02.0 1957 White Kinmundy 4: 59.8 1958 Jansen Dieterich 5:02.0 1959 c. Rudolphi Clay City 5:10.0 1960 B. Rudolphi Clay City 4:57.3 1961 B. Rudolphi Clay City 4:51.2 1962 Ramsey Farina LaGrove 4:47.9 1963 Ramsey Farina LaGrove 4:46.0 1964 Franklin Clay City 4:58.8 1965 Freeman Louisville 4:55.8 1966 Stoltz Sumner 4:47.0 1967 Thomann J:f(:)ble " 4:38.5 1968 Niebrugge Dieterich 4:49.7 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 11 WINNERS IN HIGH JUMP YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 Trout Clay City 5' 7" 1955 Trout Clay City 5' 4" 1956 Huddleston Kinmundy 5' 6" 1957 Scott Sumner 5' 7" 1958 Wylie Cisne 5' 6" 1959 ·3-way tie 5' 4" 1960 Zumbahlen Dieterich 5' 4" 1961 Wilson Clay City 5' 8" 1962 Atteberry Cisne 5' 7" 1963 Williams Louisville 5' ~tt 1964 Carter Dieterich 5' 10" 1965 Williams Louisville 5' 8" 1966 Doris Clay City 5' 8~" 1967 Bochtler Farina LaGrove 5' 7" 1968 Mascher Dieterich 6' 0" 1969 r_., 1970 1971 38 TABLE 12 WINNERS IN LONG JUMP YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 Pearce Clay City 19' '%" 1955 G. Tolliver Louisville 18' 0" 1956 Boxell Clay City 18' ~: 1957 Perry Sumner 18' 6" 1958 Henken Kinmundy 17' Ula" 1959 Smith Cisne 18' 6" 1960 Turner Louisville 20' 7" 1961 Turner Louisville 21' ala'' 1962 Long Clay City 20' l" 1963 Long Clay City 21' l" 1964 Long Clay City 21' 5" 1965 Rutger Cisne 20' 2" 1966 Barbee Louisville 19' 11" 1967 Payne Clay City 19' <:%' 1968 Da. Ryker Clay City 20' ~". 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 13 WINNERS IN POLE VAULT YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 Lewis Louisville 9' 3" 1955 Trout Clay City 9' 3" 1956 Workman Clay City 10' 0" 1957 Shouse Dieterich 10' 0" 1958 Dunigan Clay City 9' 6" 1959 Pergl Kinmundy 9' 10" 1960 Conard Cisne ll' o·• 1961 Conard Cisne 10' 3" 1962 Woods Louisville 10' 0" 1963 Woods Louisville 10' 9" 1964 Krutsinger Clay City 10' 6" 1965 Geyer Cisne 11' ~" 1966 Stine Noble 10' 9" 1967 Nuttall Noble 11' ~" 1968 Pryor Clay City 11 t 0" 1969 1970 .,-.. ._., 1971 39 TABLE 14 f',_., - WINNBRS IN SHOT PUT YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 Mayo Clay City 38' 1<%' 1955 Adams Noble 38' l" 1956 Stanley Louisville 41' ~· 1957 Ada as Noble 41' ~· 1958 Thompson Noble 41' 7¥' 1959 Harbaugh Sumner 41' 11~" 1960 Atteberry Cisne 44' 9Jt• 1961 Robnett Kinmundy 46' ~· 1962 Stremming Dieterich 48' 9Jt• 1963 Toler Clay City 51' 5" 1964 Densmore Noble 46' 0" 1965 Pryor Clay City 45' 1966 Beasley Louisville 43' *'11" 1967 Rosenlieb Clay City 45' 8¥' 1968 Chapman Cisne 44' <%' 1969 1970 ,,1971 TABLE 15 WINNIRS IN DISCUS THROW 1954 Mading Clay City 112' 4" 1955 Stanley Louisville 119' <%• 1956 Aus brook Clay City 126' 5" 1957 Adams Noble ll5' 7" 1958 'l'hompson Noble 108' 3" 1959 Probst Dieterich 114' 10" 1960 Probst Dieterich 128' 3" 1961 Harrison Clay City 127' 3" 1962 Stremming Dieterich 142' 3\'' 196j Toler Clay City 126' 5" 1964 Brown Louisville 130' l" 1965 Kaiser Farina LaGrove 127' ~" 1966 Beasley Louisville 120' 9" 1967 Beasley Louisville 129' 5" 1968 Chapman Cisne 133' 8~" 1969 1970 c 1971 40 TABLE 16 WINNERS IN 880 RELAY YEAR SCHOOL MARK 19.54 Clay City 1:43.0 1955 Noble 1:41.0 1956 Clay City 1:41.2 1957 Clay City 1:42.9 1958 Clay City 1:40.5 1959 Clay City 1 :41.1 1960 Noble 1:44.7 196i Noble 1:38.0 1962 Cisne 1:39.6 1963 Farina LaGrove 1:39.8 1964 Clay City 1:37.6 1965 Clay City 1:38.3 1966 Clay City 1:39.0 1967 Noble 1:37.2 1968 Clay City 1:39.0 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 17 WINNERS IN MILE RELAY YEAR SatOOL MARK 1954 1955 1956 No Relay in These Years 1957 1958 1959 Clay City 4:02.3 1960 Clay City 3:49.l 196i Dieterich 3:51.3 1962 Clay City 3:47.0 1963 Clay City 3:44.4 1964 Clay City 3:44.4 1965 Louisville 3:42.3 1966 Clay City 3:49.2 1967 Clay City 3:43.9 196$ Noble. 3:48.6 1969 1970 ;'~ " "'-"' 1971 41 TABLE 18 WINNERS IN 70 HIGH HURDLES YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK Hurdles first contested in 1959 1Y59 Zumbahlen Dieterich 10.l 1960 Zumbahlen Dieterich 9.6 1961 Atteberry Cisne 9.5 1962 Atteberry Cisne 9.2 1963 Long Clay City 9.5 1964 Long Clay City 9.3 1965 Steppe Dieterich 9.1 1966 O. Patridgtl Clay City 10.0 1967 Bochtler Farina LaGrove 9.4 1968 Coulter Clay City 9.4 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 19 WINNERS IN 120 LOW HURDLES YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK Hurdles first contested in 1959 1959 Zumbahlen Dieterich 15.1 1960 Atteberry Cisne 14.2 1961 Hohlbauch Clay City 14.3 1962 Atteberry Cisne 13.9 1963 Long Clay City 14.2 1964 Long Clay City 13.8 1965 'lb.omas Dieterich 13.7 1966 Borah Cisne 14.4 1967 Aus brook Noble 13.8 1968 Coulter Clay City 14.0 1969 1970 1971 42 TABLE 20 WINNERS IN TWO MILE RUN YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK No two mile contested until 1965 1965 Norman Farina LaGrove 10:52.7 1966 Turley Cisne 10:57.S 1967 Griffith Dieterich 10:31.3 1968 Griffith Dieterich 10:30.0 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 21 WINNERS IN SO YARD DASH (discontinued) YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 G. Tolliver Louisville 5.6 1955 Lenear Noble 5.8 1956 Leonard Clay City 5.6 1957 .Jinks LOuisville 6.3 1958 Fancher Louisville 5.6 TABLE 22 WINNERS IN BASEBALL THROW (discontinued) YEAR NAME SCHOOL MARK 1954 Mayo Clay City 320' l" 1955 Rinterscher Clay City 277' 6" 1956 Franklin Clay City 322' 0" 1957 Staser Clay City 306' 8~" 1958 Stallard Noble 306' 0" 43 .TABLE 23 PAST INDIVIOOAL CROSS COUNTRY WINNBRS YBAR NAM& ;',:·:·· SCHOOL COURSE TIME 1964 Franklin Clay City 1.7 miles 9:35 1965 Norman Farina 1.9 miles 10:28 1966 'nlrley Cisne 1.95 mile~ 10:51 1967 Thomann No11l• 1.9 miles 9:50 1968 Griffith Dieterich 1.9 miles 10:05 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 24 SCHOOLS CCMPILING PERFECT LBAGOE BASKETBALL RBCORDS YEAR SCHOOL RECORD 1932 Noble 12-0 1934 Noble 9-0 1935 Dundas 12-0 1936 Noble 8-0 1938 Clay City 10-0 1941 Clay City 10-0 1942 Clay City 10-0 1943 Clay City 10-0 1948 Noble 14-0 1953 Louisville 12-0 1957 Noble 12-0 1959 Kinmundy 14-0 1968 Dieterich 14-0 c ------··---·-· 44 TABLE 25 MIDLAND TRAIL FROSH SOPR BASKETBALL TOURNEY CHAMPIONS YEAR SCHOOL COACH 1961 Kinmundy McNealy 1962 Clay City Henson 1963 Louisville Fender 1964 Farina LaGrove Manwaring 1965 Farina LaGrove Manwaring 1966 Clay City McDaniel 1967 Kinmundy Jones 1968 Farina Sarver 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 26 MIDLAND TRAIL FROSH SOPH TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONS YBAR SCHOOL COACH 1961 Clay City Brandon 1962 Clay City Tolliver 1963 Clay City Tolliver 1964 Clay City Tolliver 1965 Clay City Tolliver 1966 Clay City Tolliver 1967 Clay City Tolliver 1968 Clay City Curtis 1969 1970 1971 45 'TABLE 27 MIDLAND TRAIL VARSI'IY TRACK Rl!CORDS EVENT HOLDER, SCHOOL YEAR RECORD 100 Yard Dash Rogers, Xenia 1939 :10.2 220 Yard Dash Rogers, Xenia 1939 :23.0 440 Yard Dash Al Williams, Louisville 1965 :51.7 880 Yard Dash Bill Rudolphi, Clay City 1961 2:05.3 One Mile Run Duane Thomann, Noble 1967 4:38.5 Two Mile Run Burl ~riffith, Dieterich 1968 10:30.0 7Q}ligh Hrdles Bill . Steppe,. . Dieterich. 1965 :09.1 120 Low Hurdles Rich Thomas, Dieterich 1965 :13.7 ShQt Put George Toler, Clay City 1963 51' 5" Discus Gene Stretnming, Die~rida: 1962 142' Long Jump Frank Turner, Louis · lle 1961 21' 8~'*' High Jump JohnMaacher, Dieterich 1968 6' 0" Pole Vault Ed Geyer, Cisne 1965 11 t 9\" 880 Yard Relay Noble(Goodman, Wease, 1967 1:37.2 Greenwood, Ford) One Mile Relay Louisville(Stabfield, Thomas, 1965 3:42.3 Hough, Williams) TABLE 28 MIDLAND TRAIL FROSH.SOPH TRACK RECORDS EVENT HOLDER, SCHOOL YEAR RJEORD 100 Yard Dash Mark Swift, Kinmundy 1961 :10.7 Al Williams, Louisville 1963 :10.7 220 Yard Dash Dave Ryker, Clay City 1966 :23.5 440 Yard Dash Steve Greenwood, Noble 1962 :54.8 880 Yard Run Bill Brian, Sumner 1968 2:09.0 One Mile Run Jim Ramsey, Farina 1961 4:57 .3 Two Mile Run Bob Bohnhoff, Dieterich 1965 11 :02.1 70 High Hurdles Bill Steppe, Dieterich 1963 :09.7 earl Patridge, Clay City 1964 :09.7 120 Low Hurdles Bill Steppe, Dieterich 1964 :14.6 Shot Put George Toler, Clay City 1961 43' ~" Discus Don Bushue, Dieterich 1966 117' 8" L0 ng Jump Cy Long, Clay City 1962 20' 9" Pole Vault Keith Pryor, . Clay City 1968 11' ~" High Jump Ed Van Sant, Farina 1968 5' 8~" 880 Yard Relay Clay City(Pate, Hosselton, 1963 1:41.S Del-.ey, D. Patridge) One Mile Relay Clay City(Pl'yOr, Franklin, 1964 3:53.6 Hohlbauch, Wattles) 46 TABLE 29 POSinON OF FINISH FOR CURRENT M.T.c. BASEBALL TEAMS SCHOOL YEARS 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 Cisne 8 8 5 4t 6 Dieterich St 3t 3t 7 3t Farina 7 6 1 1 1 Kinmundy 3t 1 6t 6 7t Louisville 2 7 6t 3 3t Noble 3t 3t 3t 4t 3t SUmner St 5 8 8 7t Clay City 1 2 2 2 2 t- denotes tie for position TABLE 30 POSITION OF FINISH FOR CURRENT M.T.C. CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS SCHOOL YEARS 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 Cisne 3 2 2 5 5 Dieterich 3 4 6 2 1 Farina 2 3 3 4 4 Kinmundy 6 7 Louisville 4 6 5 6 Noble 5 4 3 3 SUmner Clay City 1 1 1 1 2 47 - TABLE 31 POSITION OF FINISH FOR CURRENT M.T.C. BASKETBALL TEAMS SCHOOL YEARS 1964 196S 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 Cisne St 7t 3 2 5 Dieterich 4 2 2 3 1 Farina 7t 5 6t 4t 2 Kinmundy St 7t 6t 1 3t Louisville 1 4t 4t 5 7t Noble 2t 3 4t 7 6 Sumner 7t 6 8 8 7t Clay City 2t 1 1 4t 3t t- denotes tie for place TABLE 32 POSITION OF FINISH FOR CURRENT M.T.C. TRACK TEAMS SCHOOL YEARS 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 Cisne 8 5 6 8 3 Dieterich 4 3 5 4 2 Farina 5 4 3 3 5 Kinmundy 7 8 7t 6 7 LouisviUe 2 2 2 5 6 Noble 3 7 4 2 4 Sumner 6 6 7t 7 8 Clay City 1 1 1 1 1 c 48 ...... ,_,.,,. TABLE 33 COACHES OF THE YEAR YEAR BASEBALL CROSS COONTRY BASKET.BALL TRACK-FIELD 1968 Bill Sarver D. A. Winkler Jim McDaniel Sam Hughes Farina Dieterich Clay City Cisne 1969 1970 1971 TABLE 34 RBCENT M.T.C. AIMINISTRATORS YEAR CISNE CLAY CITY DIETERICH FARINA 1961 Prye. Shafer L. Martin Monical 1962 Frye Shafer L. Martin Monical 1963 Prye Shafer Enochs Monical 1964 Frye Rumsey Enochs Monical 1965 Frye Rumsey Enochs Monical 1966 Prye Hill Enochs Monical 1967 Fr.fe Maroon Enochs Monie al 1968 Prye Maroon Enochs llonical YBAR KINMUNDY LOOISVILLE NOBLE SUMNER 1961 Hartley Magill ., Waddle Hixon 1962 Hartley Magill Waddle Hixon 1963 Hartley Magill Waddle Hixon 1964 Jones Magill Waddle Hixon 1965 ..Jones Seelman Waddle Hixon 1966 ..Jones Seelman Waddle Hixon 1967 Jones Seelman Waddle Looney 1968 Jones Seelman Waddle Looney c 49 TABLB 35 CHAMPIONSHIPS WON BY M.T.C. MBMBBR SCHOOLS BASB- CROSS BASKBTBALL 'l'RACK SCHOOL* BALL COUNTRY LBAGUB TOURNEY PIBLD Cisne(3) 2 0 0 1 0 Clay City(S4) 7 4 12 11 20 Dieterich(4) 0 1 2 0 1 Farina LaGrove(8) 5 0 1 2 0 Kinmundy(lO) 5 0 4 1 0 Louisville(14) 1 0 5 7 1 Noble(39) 1 0 15 17 6 Sumner(2) 0 0 1 0 1 * number in parenthesis denotes total championships won. TABLE 36 SCHOOLS HOLDING MEMBERSHIP IN M.T.C. SINCE ITS POUNDING SCHOOL LBAGUB TBNURB Xenia 1929 to 1949 Iuka 1929 to 1933? Clay City 1929 to present Louisville 1929 to present Noble 1929 to present Sumner 1929 to 1968 Dundas 1931? to 1941 Cisne 1931? to present Mt. Brie 1941 to 1942 Farina 1941 to present Kinmundy 1944 to present St. Anthony (Bffingham) 1950 to 1950 Dieterich 1957 to present Ramsey 1968 to present 50 - BIBLIOGP..APEY Periodicals Jhe Cl_?_y__ Q.9-l!!l!Y Advocate (Clay City), 1950-56. Unpublished 'Mat_~ria3=._ Midland Trail Conference. Minutes at Fall and Spring Meetings of League Officials, 1935-1968. (Mimeographed). OTHER SOURCES Personal interview with Guy N. Magill, former Louisville High School Principal, Louisville, Illinois. June 3, 1968. Personal interview with Paul Monical, Principal, Farina LaGrove Public Schools, Farina, Illinois. November 15, 1967. ------Personal interview with Virgil D. Shafer, former Clay City High School Principal, Clay City, Illinois. Septewber 7, 1966 and June 3, 1968. ----~--·------· Personal interview with H. M. Waddle, Noble High School Principal, Noble, Illinois. August, 1967.