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Week 11 Question: The Mulvane Football Stadium "Lyle Couch Stadium" is named after the Mulvane resident Lyle Couch. What capacity did Lyle serve in the Mulvane School District?
Answer:
Lyle Couch was born on Sept 9, 1928 in Helena Oklahoma. He graduated from Helena High School in 1946. Lyle received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern State College of Alva Oklahoma in 1952. He received his Master's degree from Wichita State University in 1962. He was also a veteran of the U.S. Marines.
Lyle Couch was the Principal of the Mulvane High School for 8 years, joining the staff in 1963. He was highly regarded by his peers, students, and the community. He played a vital part in the administration of Mulvane High School where his knowledge, his capability, and his interest in education and the community helped provide the outstanding educational program in Mulvane.
He encouraged all students to practice good study habits and to be impatient to learn. His interest in the students and the school gained him respect and admiration not only from the students and faculty but also from the Mulvane community. He loved sports, especially football, and he was tougher on the athletes and cheerleaders more than anyone else...it was drilled in the athletes that they were representing MHS and they should be held to a high standard. He is remembered by friends and family as tough with a soft heart.
During the fall of 1970 Lyle was diagnosed with a brain tumor. During his sick leave, Jerry Webster (a former Mulvane student and star athlete) took over the duties of Principal. Lyle passed away on November 23, 1971. The football community, faculty, and students held several fundraisers to help the family and the school board led by Superintendent Dean Parks honored Lyle Couch by naming the football stadium after him.
Week 10 Question: Mulvane has played many teams throughout its 98 years of football. What team has Mulvane played more times than any other team?
Answer:From 1914 to 2011, Mulvane has played Valley Center 82 times, sometimes more than once in a single season. The record between Mulvane and Valley Center with the data available is Mulvane-40 Wins : Valley Center 41 Wins (and one result/score unknown in 1940). The table below shows the 10 teams that Mulvane has played the most times:
Valley Center
82
Clearwater
73
Augusta
64
Belle Plaine
48
Wellington
34
Goddard
33
Buhler
32
Derby
29
Rose Hill
28
Andale
27
Week 9 Question: In the 1919 football season, during one of the away games a small brawl broke out in the stands between the Mulvane and Home town spectators. Who was Mulvane playing when this happened?
Answer: On October 3rd, 1919 Mulvane traveled to Douglass for a Friday football game. Mulvane fell to Douglass 7-18 and according to the newspaper accounts, "the sideline was about as strenuous as the game. The Douglass rooters seemed to have the idea that the proper way to support their team was to make it unpleasant for their visitors. There was much snatching of colors, a scrap or two, and some unseemly hair pulling. One Mulvane girl had her watch broken, her beads scattered, anther was badly scratched, and a small boy had his clothes damaged in a roughing that a crowd of youngsters gave him."(Mulvane News 10-9-1919)
Mulvane did play Douglass again in the last game of the 1919 season and lost 0-18 but there are no reports of crowd shenanigans from that game. That game was played at Mulvane.
Week 8 Question: The Mulvane High School mascot has not always been the "Wildcats".
What other mascots has Mulvane High School been?
Answer: Mulvane adopted the "Wildcat" as her mascot around 1925. Up until then there was was not much mention of an official mascot, but in 1922 a newspaper article reference "The Mulvane Lions" (9-28-1922). The same football season the newspaper referenced "The Mulvane Bears" (11-9-1922). It's unclear why they referenced two mascots in the same season. The first mention of the "Wildcat" I can find is in the newspaper article for the game vs Douglass on 11-5-1925.
Week 7 Question: How many "leagues" has the Mulvane Football been a part of since the first team formed in 1914? (not counting any division changes within a league)
Answer: From the evidence compiled in old newspaper articles, Mulvane has been part of four leagues since the first team formed in 1914 - Sedgwick County League, Sumwick League, Chisholm Trail League, Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League.
1914 - 1938: Sedgwick County League
1939 - 1954: Sumwick League
1955 - 2003: Chisholm Trail League
2004 - Present: Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League
Some years in the 30's, the Sedgwick County league champs would go on to play other league champs as a season closer game and the winner would be the "Mythical Dual League Champ". Mulvane were dual league champs in 1933, 1934, lost to Caldwell in 1935, and tied with Caldwell in 1936.
Week 6 Question: The Mulvane High School colors have not always been green/white. What other colors has the Mulvane High School been?
Answer: Up until around 1920, the Mulvane school colors were the Orange and Black. The 1917 yearbook was titled "Orange and Black" (see image below)
The year 1920 was the first year that Mulvane's Green/White colors were referenced in the paper. In fact this came about in an article about an incident where some unruly students marked up Belle Plaine's School with green paint prior to the scheduled football game, which was subsequently cancelled.
Week 5 Question: What is the most points a Mulvane Football team has scored in a single game?
Answer: On October 27, 1921 Mulvane beat Clearwater 105-0. That year Mulvane outscored the opponents 441-9, which included two teams that forfeited their second games vs Mulvane (Valley Center and Clearwater). Mulvane was Sedgwick County League Champs.
Mulvane's 1921 schedule was:
vs. Valley Center: 39-6 ( W )
vs. Cheney: 46-0 ( W )
vs. Viola: 62-0 ( W )
vs. Mt. Hope: 81-0 ( W )
vs. Clearwater: 105-0 ( W )
vs. Cheney: 7-3 ( W )
vs. Valley Center: 1-0 ( W )
vs. Mt. Hope: 27-0 ( W )
vs. Clearwater: 1-0 ( W )
vs. Viola: 72-0 ( W )
Week 4 Question: The years 1920-1923 featured Mulvane's football star and outstanding athlete "Frank Harris" in Football, Basketball, and Track.
Frank almost missed his sophomore season of Track due to a what leg injury?
Answer:
Frank Harris played on the football team for four years, three as a halfback and one as a fullback. Four years on the basketball team as guard and three years he was the high point man in track. He was almost put out of track during his Sophomore year due to a gun shot wound in his leg. He still ran track that year and was still able to place some 2nd and 3rd places in the 50, 100, and 220 sprints despite his leg being in bad shape.
A yearbook quote described Frank in this fashion: "If things were divided up on a basis of reward for faithfulness and Frank were given his share, there would be little left for the rest. For absolute loyalty to MHS and general stick-to-itiveness, Franks puts everyone else in the shade. He never says anything about it but he just goes ahead and does the square thing by everybody."
How did he get shot? A newspaper article from 3-10-1921 has the following story: Shot Through the Leg - Last Sunday afternoon Frank Harris, who works in the Dye restaurant near the Santa Fe Station, was the victim of a peculiar accident, but which fortunately did not have serious results. He was washing dishes just after noon and in whipping a dishcloth off a nail under the counter he jarred a .38 caliber revolver from the nail at the same time. The gun fell to the floor and was discharged, the bullet boring a clean hole through the calf of Frank's right leg. He was really more scared than hurt. He was able to hobble across the street to the office of Dr. Michener and was given prompt attention. The wound was only a slight one and no serious results are anticipated.
Apparently they thought the wound wouldn't be serious, but a newspaper article about a track meet on 5-19-1921 said his leg was in bad condition.
Week 3 Question:1914 was the first year that Mulvane ever had a football team. Most kids had never seen a football game and had no idea what the game was all about.
What was one of the problems the coaches ran into during the first weeks of practice?
Answer: In a newspaper article "Lecture In Football" it talks about how many of the boys have never seen a football game and only two players had any prevoius experience. In the first week of practice the coaches were having problems with the boys grasping the concept of team instead of the individual, in fact some of the kids were smoking pipes and cigarettes on the sidelines, some while in their football uniform. The coaches eventually got the boys turned around and went on to have a 2-2-1 season in 1914 as well as a string of winning seasons until they went 2-4-1 in 1919.
Week 2 Question: In 1918 the Mulvane Football season was cut short after 2 games and the schools closed down due to the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. Where was this disease first observed?
Answer: In the United States, the disease was first observed at Haskell County, Kansas, in January 1918. On 4 March 1918, company cook Albert Gitchell reported sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. Within days, 522 men at the camp had reported sick. By March 11, 1918 the virus had reached Queens, New York.
Although the first cases were registered in the continental U.S. and the rest of Europe long before getting to Spain, the 1918 pandemic received its nickname "Spanish flu" because Spain, a neutral country in World War I, had no censorship of news regarding the disease and its consequences. Spanish King Alfonso XIII became gravely ill and was the highest-profile patient about whom there was coverage. Hence, the widest and most reliable news coverage came from Spain, giving the false impression that Spain was most affected.
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston in 1918, where the worldwide pandemic began.
Source: Wikipedia
Week 1 Question: In the 1920's and 1930's one of Mulvane's main rivals was Belle Plaine. What was Belle Plaine's mascot during this time?
Answer: The Belle Plaine sports teams were the "Applepickers" up until sometime around the late 1940's or early 1950's where they changed to the "Dragons" which is their current mascot today.
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Lyle Couch was born on Sept 9, 1928 in Helena Oklahoma. He graduated from Helena High School in 1946. Lyle received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern State College of Alva Oklahoma in 1952. He received his Master's degree from Wichita State University in 1962. He was also a veteran of the U.S. Marines.
He encouraged all students to practice good study habits and to be impatient to learn. His interest in the students and the school gained him respect and admiration not only from the students and faculty but also from the Mulvane community. He loved sports, especially football, and he was tougher on the athletes and cheerleaders more than anyone else...it was drilled in the athletes that they were representing MHS and they should be held to a high standard. He is remembered by friends and family as tough with a soft heart.
Frank Harris played on the football team for four years, three as a halfback and one as a fullback. Four years on the basketball team as guard and three years he was the high point man in track. He was almost put out of track during his Sophomore year due to a gun shot wound in his leg. He still ran track that year and was still able to place some 2nd and 3rd places in the 50, 100, and 220 sprints despite his leg being in bad shape.
