Mine it upstairs in a closet haven't seen it in years it's probably shrunk I highly doubt it would fit today
High school letter jackets....
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I had a lettermens sweater, one my mom gave me that she got from a concert she went to featuring the Lettermen. 
Our junior high conference track meet was held in Dodge in the late '70's and it was a dirt track. We used about 1" spikes, if I recall correctly. We had a crushed rock track at our school when I was in high school. I only ran track one year in high school so I don't remember much about running on it.
Played basketball at Pope John and St. Francis back when they had tile floors. Those were not much fun to play on.
Played basketball at Pope John and St. Francis back when they had tile floors. Those were not much fun to play on.
We played some schools over that direction, both in high school and when I coached at Davenport.... Didn't you know Scott schelburne? My next door neighbor growing up was from Campbell and he took me there for my first Road Rally back in 77, Kenny Selig.
The idea for the Alex road rally came from Campbell! I remember helping my Dad set up many a course.... So much fun and so many back roads!
And your parents live in Daykin? Getting old suck I should know you can't put a finger on it yet
My Dad passed and my Mom married a niederklein... I remodeled their house just north of the lumberyard in 97 just after I got back from overseas.
Did you coach wrestling? Your mom is Becky? You need to come back and coach meridian football because coach jones suck 2 wins in two years
I always wondered where Meridian was. I know a **** ton about random Nebraska High Schools but I had no idea where Meridian was or why the hell is it called Meridian?
Also, our school didn't have letterman's jackets. We just wore our state football/basketball/track shirts and that was good enough.
If my memory serves me correct the name meridian came for a old town of the same name it was located close to the little blue river in Jefferson county south and east of Alexandria im not for sure but it think most of the left overs moved to Alexandria the town was long gone in the fall of 1967 when the school started
My high school letter jacket was size 38. Still have it but can only look at it! It was more of a coat that went to mid thigh. I wore it all the time in high school but would've look like a fool to wear in college. I wrestled and played baseball at a Division III school and wore the letter jacket my sophomore through senior years but that was in the 70s. All the other athletes did also. It was a size 42/44 chest and like my size 38 high school jacket, it now hangs in the closet only to be pulled out for discussion with the grandkids.
Everything Baxter48 is true... The town of meridian was hit by a tornado in the 20's I believe. A few foundations, one condemned house, and the cemetery is all that is left. We mowed the cemetery a few times as a service project. The town was built very near to a special longitude line called a meridian. On the road to Meridian the town there is a whole section that had 30 inch solid concrete fence all the way around it. It was a skunk farm of all things about 100 years ago.... Lots of Morel mushrooms picked along that windy river road!
Another small town factoid.... I grew up in Alexandria right next to the railroad tracks. Trains, back when they were steam powered, needed water refills about every 10 miles back in the day. The problem is, there weren't towns every ten miles before the tracks were laid....
The railroad built water tanks/towers along the tracks and a shack for an employee. When the train stopped, it had customers which attracted opportunistic businessmen/women. The new gatherings of buildings every ten miles didn't have names.... The railroads obliged and named them. Their names followed the alphabet and Alexandria was first! Then Bevidere, Carleton, Davenport, Edgar, Fairfield, Glenvil, Harvard, Inland..... That's my small town factoid of the day!
The railroad built water tanks/towers along the tracks and a shack for an employee. When the train stopped, it had customers which attracted opportunistic businessmen/women. The new gatherings of buildings every ten miles didn't have names.... The railroads obliged and named them. Their names followed the alphabet and Alexandria was first! Then Bevidere, Carleton, Davenport, Edgar, Fairfield, Glenvil, Harvard, Inland..... That's my small town factoid of the day!
Wow, this thread takes me back. Being north of 60, I graduated HS in the mid-70's. There weren't letter jackets at the time; it was letter sweaters. At my school (Creighton Prep) you got a white sweater if you were on a state champion team, blue otherwise. The letter (kind of a football-shaped "C" with the "P" inside) was sown on the left side, below the pocket. I have to say, I remember very well the great pride I felt the first time I put on a jersey that said "Creighton Prep" across the front. And I was very proud of that sweater but no, I did not wear it after high school. However, while playing football in college, one practice each season we had "high school jersey day." Everybody dragged them out of mothballs and strutted around. It was great.
PS. Cloud, through the years I have gotten to know Joe, Tom and Bob Selig. Great family. Kenny is the only brother I don't know. They have some pretty darn hilarious stories from their Alexandria days.
PS. Cloud, through the years I have gotten to know Joe, Tom and Bob Selig. Great family. Kenny is the only brother I don't know. They have some pretty darn hilarious stories from their Alexandria days.
Ed was the youngest of the brothers and he was a senior when I was a freshman.... Great family! Kathleen, their Mom, was like my Grandma whether she wanted to be or not!