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Football Came to Storm Lake in 1893
The piece chronicles Storm Lake’s 1893 football birth via W. C. Skiff’s donated ball, the 1894 undefeated season, and early players like John Cowles Clarence Griffith Lew Groom Frank Russell Guy Angier Howard Thompson Ernest Wilkinson Geo. Fowler Rob Rutledge Frank Tymeson James Rae. It recalls uniforms absent, mixed high school and college teams, the flying wedge’s prominence, a notorious 1894 LeMars game, and a snowy 1894 Cherokee bout featuring a 290 pound substitute named Root.
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Storm Lake
W. C. Skiff
Budding
John Cowles
Clarence Griffith
Lew Groom
Frank Russell
Guy Angier
Howard Thompson
Ernest Wilkinson
Geo. Fowler
Rob Rutledge
Frank Tymeson
James Rae
Jim Mullen
W. C. Edson
LeMars
J. D. O-Donoghue
Skiff
University of Iowa
Ames
Cherokee
Lakers
Storm T Lake