School Summary First Year: 1942-43 Last Year: 1985-86 State Team Championships: 15 State Team Qualifiers: 1 State Individual Championships: 46 Most successful school year: 1960-61 State Champions Boy's Cross Country: 7-time state champs, 1950 (A), 1954 (AA), 1955 (AA), 1956 (AA), 1959 (AAA), 1960 (AAA), 1962 (AAA); 4-time Team Mile state champs, 1950 (A), 1954 (AA), 1955 (AAA), 1962 (AAA); 4 Individual State Titles; 3 Individual Mile State Titles Boy's Swimming: 1 Event Title Boy's Track: 1-time Outdoor state champs, 1961 (AA); 3-time Indoor state champs, 1956 (AA), 1960 (AA), 1961 (AA); 15 Outdoor Event Titles; 20 Indoor Event Titles Wrestling: 3 Individual State Titles Other Undefeated Seasons Year-by-Year State Qualifiers, State Champions, and All-Staters 1945-46 Football: All-State 1945 (5th/-) G - Court Hooton, Des Moines Tech Football: All-State 1945 (6th/-) HB - Everett Cochrane, Des Moines Tech 1946-47 1947-48 1949-50 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Relay Champion 1950 (A) (medley relay) Des Moines Tech (Smith, Graves, Ward, Johnson) 3:48.1 1950-51 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 1955-56 Boy's Track & Field: 1956 (AA) INDOOR STATE CHAMPIONS 1956-57 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1957 (AA) (medley relay) Des Moines Tech (Larry Evans, Walter Wells, Phillip Greggs, Harry Thomas) 3:46.6 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Individual Champion 1957 (AA) (220y) Jim Hutchinson, Des Moines Tech 22.6 1957-58 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Individual Champion 1958 (AA) (220y) Jim Hutchinson, Des Moines Tech 22.1 2nd time 1958-59 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1959 (AA) (440y) Charles Taylor, Des Moines Tech 51.6 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1959 (AA) (4x440y relay) Des Moines Tech (Jim Taylor, Bob Jones, Dale Jones, Charles Taylor) 3:34.7 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Relay Champion 1959 (AA) (4x220y relay) Des Moines Tech (Jim Taylor, Charles Taylor, Bob Jones, Rex Parsons) 1:30.1 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Relay Champion 1959 (AA) (4x880y relay) Des Moines Tech (Larry Overton, Greg Leaper, Larry Cooper, Bob Jones) 8:09.6 1959-60 Boy's Track & Field: 1960 (AA) INDOOR STATE CHAMPIONS Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1960 (AA) (440y) Charles Taylor, Des Moines Tech 50.9 2nd time Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1960 (AA) (4x220y relay) Des Moines Tech (Charles Taylor, Jim Wiles, Norm Taylor, Rex Parsons) 1:34.5 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1960 (AA) (4x440y relay) Des Moines Tech (Ron Watkins, Rex Parson, John Wiles, Charles Taylor) 3:32.3 2nd time Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Individual Champion 1960 (AA) (100y) Charles Taylor, Des Moines Tech 9.8 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Relay Champion 1960 (AA) (4x440y relay) Des Moines Tech (Norm Taylor, Greg Leaper, Jim Wiles, Chuck Taylor) 3:26.7 1960-61 Boy's Track & Field: 1961 (AA) INDOOR STATE CHAMPIONSBoy's Track & Field: 1961 (AA) OUTDOOR STATE CHAMPIONS Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1961 (AA) (440y) Charles Taylor, Des Moines Tech 49.7 3rd time Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1961 (AA) (60y high hurdles) Norm Taylor, Des Moines Tech 7.7 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1961 (AA) (60y low hurdles) Norm Taylor, Des Moines Tech 7.2 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1961 (AA) (4x220y relay) Des Moines Tech (Dennis Obregon, Steve Hendrickson, Jim Wiles, Charles Taylor) 1:35.1 2nd time Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1961 (AA) (4x440y relay) Des Moines Tech (Dennis Obregon, Jim Wiles, Norm Taylor, Charles Taylor) 3:30.7 2nd time Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Individual Champion 1961 (AA) (100y) Charles Taylor, Des Moines Tech 10.2 2nd time Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Individual Champion 1961 (AA) (220y) Dennis Obregon, Des Moines Tech 22.3 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Individual Champion 1961 (AA) (120y high hurdles) Norm Taylor, Des Moines Tech 14.9 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Relay Champion 1961 (AA) (4x220y relay) Des Moines Tech (Dennis Obregon, Bob Williams, Jim Wiles, Charles Taylor) 1:30.2 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Relay Champion 1961 (AA) (4x440y relay) Des Moines Tech (Norm Taylor, Rickey Williams, Dennis Obergon, Charles Taylor) 3:27.6 2nd time 1961-62 1962-63 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1963 (AA) (60y high hurdles) Darryl Green, Des Moines Tech 7.6 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1963 (AA) (60y low hurdles) Darryl Green, Des Moines Tech 7.3 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1963 (AA) (4x220y relay) Des Moines Tech (Bob Williams, Joe Johnson, Leslie Carter, Charles Wilson) 1:36.0 1963-64 1964-65 1965-66 Wrestling: Individual State Champion 1966 (AA) 145 - Tim Shade, Des Moines Tech Football: All-State 1965 (3rd/-) T - Mike McClish, Des Moines Tech 1966-67 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Individual Champion 1967 (AA) (long jump) Verne Hawkins, Des Moines Tech 22-08.25 1967-68 Boy's Track & Field: Outdoor Relay Champion 1968 (AA) (medley relay) Des Moines Tech (Marvin Allen, Rick Shade, Naomis Ward, Dick Scott) 3:41.0 1968-69 Boy's Cross Country: Individual Mile State Champion 1968 (AAAAA) Tom Carrizales, Des Moines Tech 4:29.2 Boy's Track & Field: Indoor Relay Champion 1969 (AA) (4x440y relay) Des Moines Tech (Bob Hudson, Mike Crawford, Tom Carrizales, Noamis Ward) 3:30.3 1971-72 1973-74 1974-75 Boy's Track & Field: Relay Champion 1975 (AA) (4x110y relay) Des Moines Tech (Mike Anderson, Nate Butts, Willis Humphrey, Ricardo Duncan) 42.5 1977-78 Boy's Track & Field: Individual Champion 1978 (AA) (110m high hurdles) Alonzo Moore, Des Moines Tech 14.85 Related Pages Des Moines Hoover Honor Roll (Des Moines CSD school since 1967-68) Des Moines Lincoln Honor Roll (Des Moines CSD school since 1923-24) Des Moines Roosevelt Honor Roll (Des Moines CSD school since 1923-24) Des Moines East Honor Roll (Des Moines CSD school since 1907-08) Des Moines North Honor Roll (Des Moines CSD school since 1907-08) |