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First Football Team 1904	Pictured above is Early High School's first football team. This group of gridiron warriors played in the year 1904, and, according to the recollections of one of the members, "We won our share of games." The coach was Harry Blackman and it is related that the only reason Blackman was selected to coach the team was because he had once seen a football game! The playing field was laid out on the grounds east of what is now the Alfred Hanke residence. The sport was short-lived here at first and was dropped after the first year. This was brought about because of the death of Cal Farmer of Sac City, who died from injuries received in a game. In the picture are, front row (left to right): Phil McQuirk, Ed Lashier, Mascot Joe Whitney's dog Ninoes, Elwood Minnis, Chester Sheely and Guy DeGarmo. Middle row: Roy Emerine, Elwood Farquhar, Captain Joe Whitney, Elmer Green and Claude Kenny. Top row: Coach Harry Blackman, Earle Hiersche, Charles DeGarmo, Gus Hartman, Alver Flack and Prof. Kolb. Picture furnished by E. F. Hiersche From the Early News, July 4, 1957
Watching a football game in Early in September 1909. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Ernest Toomer.	Baseball Fans Sept. 1909
High School Baseball Team 1910	The Early High School Baseball Team in 1910. This team won every game they played that year. Sitting in front are: Bill Roche, Orla Wright, and Burdette Stevenson. Standing are (l to r): John Hicks, Herbert Durham, Elmer Evans, Wm. Kerwin, Floyd Engler, and Ivan Fuller. [The above is a transcription of the newspaper article. There is no front row in the image, but there are ten names and ten people in the photo.]
These school children were in costume for a George Washington Birthday Pageant in 1915. Photo courtesy of Georgia B. Hooper, McFarland, KS	School Pageant 1915
Consolidated School 1920	The students of the Early Consolidated School in 1920. Photo courtesy of Lucille Determann.
The first graders of Early Consolidated School in 1927. Front row: Gweneth Baker, Shirley Mac Schramm, (?) Stephen, Raymond Zimmer, Marjorie Teague, Wilma Cates, Helen Anderson, LeRoy Rehm, (?) Warren, Harriet Dunham, Marla Toomer. Second row: Rupert Kirkpatrick, Donald Zimmer, Don Mason, Sonny Martin, (?) Rinehart, Norma Currie, (?) Fanning, Betty Grenyer, Darwin Mason, Betty Jo Wadsley. Several in the back row could not be identified. The fourth boy from the left is Jerome Boots. The 8th child is Iris Huston, next to her is Shirley Schramm and Glen Wolford. The clothing of several of the children indicates that times were hard in 1927 Photo courtesy of Donald Zimmer, Sac City.	Consolidated School 1927
Consolidated School 1943	Class of 1943 The first grade class of the Early Consolidated School pose with their teacher, Miss Anderson, for this picture taken on November 31, 1921. In the back row are: Raymond Haradon, George Hazelhoff, George Truax, Dale Simpson, Eloise Wiseman, Eunice Hair, Frances Warren and Neva Fox. In the middle row are: (?) Purcell, Berneice Gerber, (?) Madison, Avis Roche, teacher, Miss Anderson, Jake Carlton, Raymond Blass, Wallace Foote, Ernest Schramm. In the front is Dick Goodman, and the other three children are not identified. Photo courtesy of Raymond Blass.

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