Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, September 1998 Page: 119
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Columbus High School Cardinals
by Bill Stein
Though Columbus High School did not
begin its organized football program until 1926,
two ambitious collections of young men did
stage games earlier; both apparently with the
sanction of school officials. Information on the
contests appeared in the Colorado Citizen of
December 13, 1912 and the Colorado County
Citizen of October 6, 1960. The first game was
played in 1911, the second in 1912. Little is
known of the 1911 contest. According to Lester
Hastedt, who played in the game, Columbus
beat Wharton, 7-6. Among the others he cred-
ited with playing for Columbus in the game
were Sam K. Seymour, Jr., Clyde Glithero,
Harcourt Wooten, Whit Harrison, Elmo Sronce,
Willie Miekow, Caleb Best, Walter Dick, Louis
Waldvogel, John Holden, Willie Gillespie,
Russell Stein, Simon Burttschell, Creston Gay,
and Whit Stafford. The 1912 game was played
on Friday, December 6, in Columbus, and re-
sulted in a 13-6 victory over a team from
Flatonia. The Columbus team featured many
of the same players, including Hastedt,
Seymour, Miekow, Dick, Waldvogel, Holden,
Stein, Burttschell, and Gay, plus Ernest
Schulenburg, C. P. Hopkins, Howard Mayes,
and a fellow named Sallee, who scored both
Columbus touchdowns. These games, however,
were informal, and reportedly featured players
who no longer attended school. The Columbus
team was coached by William Allen Holland,
the local school superintendent. The coach of
the Flatonia team, and the referee at the game,
was Columbus native James Harbert Wooten.
It would be Wooten who would start the regu-
lar and enduring football program at Colum-
bus High School. Holland, who reportedly re-
fused to sanction the school's participation inthe sport, died on September 24, 1924. Some
two years earlier, Wooten had returned to his
home town to teach. Two days after Holland
died, the school board named Wooten to suc-
ceed him. By 1926, he was ready to initiate the
football program.
1926
Coach: James H. Wooten; Record: 0-4 (lost to
Weimar 6-0, lost to Flatonia 26-0, lost to
Rosenburg 36-0, lost to Weimar 13-0)
Totally unschooled in the game and with no
field on which to play or practice, the first offi-
cial Columbus High School football team failed
to score a point all season. The team was sched-
uled to open its inaugural season in Eagle Lake
on September 25, but cancelled the game be-
cause it did not have enough players. Two
weeks later, they traveled to Weimar for the
first of their four known games. Their first three
games were played on the road within the space
of ten days. The fourth and final game was
played in Eagle Lake, as an attraction at the
Colorado County Fair.
1927
Coaches. A. L. Ahrens and H. L. B. Skinner,
Record. 3-5-1 (tied Weimar 0-0, lost to
Hallettsville 6-0, lost to Eagle Lake 33-0, lost
to Wharton 43-0, lost to Weimar 7-0, beat Rich-
mond 13-6, beat Flatonia 33-13, beat Sealy 37-
13, lost to Somerville 26-7)
The Columbus High School team, now referred
to in the press for the first time as the "Cardi-119
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