FUN FACT

NOVEMBER

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A Legacy of Greatness

Sixty-seven years ago this month, on November 11, 1954, a scheduling snafu resulted in the Sandpoint High School football team being scheduled to play two opposing teams on the same day. Legendary SHS coach Cotton Barlow— considered by many to be the greatest coach in Sandpoint history—split the squad, and played Bonners Ferry in the afternoon and Coeur d’Alene in the evening, winning both games.

It was almost exactly 48 years after Sandpoint High School held its first interscholastic athletic event on November 22, 1906. Over Coach Barlow’s coaching career, he would achieve a coaching record of 217-85, an average of just fewer than seven wins a year; would coach Sandpoint native Jerry Kramer, who would go on to play right guard for the Packers and be inducted into the Hall of Fame; and was instrumental in building the stadium that would ultimately be named after him, and where the Bulldogs played from the early ‘50s until War Memorial Field was renovated in 2016: Barlow Stadium.

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