The other day, I pulled out an old high school copies of some football articles that I participated back in the fall of 1961. That year I was a senior at Laurel Consolidated School and graduated in he class of 1962. The following year was the last class before being consolidating again into SEMCO and later to East Marshall.
I am proud to say that one clipping from the Marshalltown Times Republican (by Associated Press) was of our ranking in the fourth week of the football season. At that time there were no class rankings as today. Only one big "pot" of schools.
Laurel received only three first place votes, but, were still able to maintain a ranking of 30th place in the state of Iowa. Others with top rankings were the likes of Iowa City, Sioux City Heelen, Ames. Marshalltown, and Davenport Central. We were ranked even ahead of Iowa City Regina.
Laurel had an outstanding group of athletes with the talents of Mike Stineman, Gary Campbell, Jim Latham, Tracy Miiller, Jerry Roberts, Ed Matya, Bob Baker Ben Wunn, Dale Erwin, Larry Eibs, and Larry Murphy. We went on that year with an undefeated football record (8-0)
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