Talking Sports: The elusive title

While researching a story on the 1951 Panhandle B Conference Champion Sidney Maroons football team, I came across a Sidney Telegraph article of that year listing all the previous champions.

The first teams listed were “O.J. Weymouth’s teams in 1926 and 1927.” I have since come to discover that the Scottsbluff Bearcats were the Western Conference Champions of 1926. Not the Sidney Maroons. The 1927 team, however, was a champion of the Western Conference and shared the title with Gering.

I can’t say what happened in the intervening 25 years between 1926 and 1951 that caused the facts to change. P...