Cedar Rapids Franklin Honor Roll

School Summary
First Year: 1935-36
Last Year: 1956-57
State Team Champions: 6
State Team Qualifiers: 20
State Individual Champions: 19
Most successful school year(s): 1946-47


State Champions
Baseball: 1-time state champs, 1949 (Su)
Boy's Cross Country: 2-time Team Mile state champs, 1945 (A), 1946 (A); 1 Individual Team Mile State Title
Boy's Golf: 3-time state champs, 1942 (Sp), 1947, 1948; 3 Individual State Titles
Boy's Swimming: 1 Individual State Title
Boy's Tennis: 1 Doubles State Title
Boy's Track: 9 Outdoor Event State Titles; 4 Indoor Event State Titles

State Qualifiers

Year-by-Year State Qualifiers, State Champions, and All-Staters
Includes all Team and Individual State Champions for tournaments sponsored by the IHSAA or IGHSAU; Team State Runner-Ups; Team State Qualifiers in Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Football, Golf, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, and dual team Wrestling; All-State selections by the Des Moines Register, IDPA/INA/IPWSA, and state coaches associations in Baseball, Basketball, Football, Softball, and Volleyball. All-State teams do not include Honorable/Special Mention, except for post-2015 DM Register selections.

1936-37
1937 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 1st state appearance
Football All-State: 1936 (DMR: 4th/IDPA: 3rd) Don Kinch, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1937-38
1938 Boy's Basketball State Team Qualifier - 1st state appearance
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1938 (4x110y relay) Cedar Rapids Franklin (Bob Johnson, Miles, Jack Sopusek, Albert Eddy) 44.1
Football All-State: 1937 (DMR: 1st/IDPA: 1st) Albert Eddy, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Football All-State: 1937 (DMR: 3rd/IDPA: -) Mike Kanellis, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Boy's Basketball All-State: 1938 (DMR: -/IDPA: 2nd) Bill Currell, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Boy's Basketball All-State: 1938 (DMR: 5th/IDPA: -) Albert Eddy, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1938-39
1939 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 2nd state appearance
Boy's Indoor Track Event State Champion: 1939 (440y) Robert Nicholson, Cedar Rapids Franklin 53.4
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1939 (440y) Robert Nicholson, Cedar Rapids Franklin 51.6
Football All-State: 1938 (DMR: 1st/IDPA: 1st) Albert Eddy, Cedar Rapids Franklin 2nd time

1939-40
1940 (Sp) Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 3rd state appearance

1940-41
1941 (Sp) Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 4th state appearance
Boy's Indoor Track Event State Champion: 1941 (A) (4x440y relay) Cedar Rapids Franklin (Jack Colman, N.J. Markey, Pete Schwinn, Jim Battin) 3:34.0
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1941 (100y) Jack Colman, Cedar Rapids Franklin 10.4
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1941 (4x440y relay) Cedar Rapids Franklin (Jack Colman, N.J. Markey, Pete Schwinn, Jim Battin) 3:26.8
Football All-State: 1940 (DMR: 6th/IDPA: 2nd) Stan Mohrbacher, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1941-42
1942 (Sp) BOY’S GOLF STATE TEAM CHAMPIONS - 1ST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP; 5TH STATE APPEARANCE
Football All-State: 1941 (DMR: 3rd/IDPA: 2nd) Bill Burger, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Football All-State: 1941 (DMR: 5th/IDPA: -) Bill Sinaiko, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1942-43
1942 (A) Boy's Cross Country State Team Runner-Up
1942 (A) Boy's Team Mile State Team Runner-Up
Boy's Team Mile Individual State Champion: 1942 (A) Howard Cole, Cedar Rapids Franklin 4:47.2
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1943 (4x880y relay) Cedar Rapids Franklin (Charles Fadness, Don Gerber, Howard Cole, Charles Hopkins) 8:18.5
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1943 (880y) Charles Hopkins, Cedar Rapids Franklin 2:01.2

1943-44
1944 Boy's Basketball State Team Runner-Up - 2nd state appearance
1944 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 6th state appearance
Football All-State: 1943 (DMR: 2nd/IDPA: 2nd) Dick Rust, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Boy's Basketball All-State: 1944 (DMR: 2nd/IDPA: 1st) Bill Shuttleworth, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1944-45
1945 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 7th state appearance
Football All-State: 1944 (DMR: 2nd/IDPA: 3rd) Louis Ginsberg, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1945-46
1945 (A) BOY’S TEAM MILE STATE TEAM CHAMPIONS - 1ST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
1946 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 8th state appearance
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1946 (4x880y relay) Cedar Rapids Franklin (Pope, Nolan, Ewart, Keith Sanford) 8:14.2
Boy's Basketball All-State: 1946 (DMR: 5th/IDPA: -) Newell Pinch, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1946-47
1946 (A) BOY’S TEAM MILE STATE TEAM CHAMPIONS - 2ND STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
1947 BOY’S GOLF STATE TEAM CHAMPIONS - 2ND STATE CHAMPIONSHIP; 9TH STATE APPEARANCE
Boy's Indoor Track Event State Champion: 1947 (A) (high jump) Harold Littell, Cedar Rapids Franklin 5-10.50
Football All-State: 1946 (DMR: 2nd/IDPA: -) Bob Cohrs, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Boy's Basketball All-State: 1947 (DMR: -/IDPA: 3rd) Bob Hoff, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1947-48
1948 BOY’S GOLF STATE TEAM CHAMPIONS - 3RD STATE CHAMPIONSHIP; 10TH STATE APPEARANCE
Boy's Golf Individual State Champion: 1948 George Beals, Cedar Rapids Franklin 75
Boy's Golf Individual State Champion: 1948 Tom Crabbe, Cedar Rapids Franklin 75

1948-49
1949 (Su) BASEBALL STATE TEAM CHAMPIONS - 1ST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP; 1ST STATE APPEARANCE
1949 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 11th state appearance
Football All-State: 1948 (DMR: 2nd/IDPA: 3rd) Bill Quinby, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Football All-State: 1948 (DMR: 7th/IDPA: -) Dick Offringa, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1949-50
1950 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 12th state appearance
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1950 (A) (1 mi) John Williams, Cedar Rapids Franklin 4:37.6
Football All-State: 1949 (DMR: 4th/IDPA: 2nd) Bob Phillips, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Football All-State: 1949 (DMR: 6th/IDPA: -) Al Peremsky, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1950-51
1951 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 13th state appearance
Football All-State: 1950 (DMR: 2nd/IDPA: 2nd) Tom Fleckenstein, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1951-52
1952 Boy's Golf State Team Runner-Up - 14th state appearance
Boy's Golf Individual State Champion: 1952 Tom Davis, Cedar Rapids Franklin 68 
Boy's Indoor Track Event State Champion: 1952 (A) (high jump) Brad Ankerstar, Cedar Rapids Franklin 5-09.50
Football All-State: 1951 (DMR: 4th/IDPA: -) John Kohl, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1952-53
1953 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 15th state appearance
Football All-State: 1952 (DMR: 4th/IDPA: 3rd) John Rosenberg, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1954-55
Football All-State: 1954 (DMR: 6th/IDPA: 4th) Jack Carlson, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1955-56
1956 Boy's Golf State Team Qualifier - 16th state appearance
1956 (Sp) Baseball State Team Qualifier - 2nd state appearance
Boy's Swimming Event State Champion: 1956 (Diving) Fritz Fisher, Cedar Rapids Franklin 193.95
Boy's Tennis Doubles State Champion: 1956 Cedar Rapids Franklin (Larry Halpin, Denny Meyers)
Boy's Outdoor Track Event State Champion: 1956 (AA) (football throw) Roger Helm, Cedar Rapids Franklin 212-11.50
Football All-State: 1955 (DMR: 7th/IDPA: -) Kent Johnson, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Football All-State: 1955 (DMR: 1st/IDPA: 1st) Roger Helm, Cedar Rapids Franklin
Football All-State: 1955 (DMR: 4th/IDPA: -) Tom Smylie, Cedar Rapids Franklin

1956-57
Football All-State: 1956 (DMR: 1st/IDPA: 1st) Roger Helm, Cedar Rapids Franklin 2nd time

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