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The 1937-38 Central Junior High School basketball team played Crystal Lake, Barrington, Dundee, and Marengo, with four home games and four away games. Their coach, Dave Crawford, was new that year, taking over for Ernest E. Hanson who left to become…

Only brothers Elwood and Clarence Sherburne, along with Arthur Anderson, have been identified in this American Legion Football team photo.

Elwood is second from left in the front row with Arthur at the end of that row. Clarence is second from…

Members of the Woodstock High School basketball team are identified in the 1924 Blue and White yearbook. Since this photo does not appear, their names do not match faces. Also, the meaning of "Fighting Fools" on the basketball remains a…

The 1914 Blue and White yearbook has the story:

MCHENRY COUNTY TRACK MEET held at Woodstock, May 17, 1913.

A record crowd turned out from Harvard, Marengo, Richmond, Crystal Lake, Huntley, McHenry, and Woodstock. The meet was managed by…

Clarence Sherburne has the ball in this photo of the Woodstock High School basketball team. The photo is not dated, but Clarence graduated in 1915. In similar team photos, the captain usually holds the identifying ball. Unfortunately, there is no…

The 1912-13 Woodstock High School basketball team won 12 games, beating Huntley, Crystal Lake, Walworth, Dundee, St Charles, McHenry, Harvard, Delavan. They lost three games, losing to St Charles, McHenry, and Janesville 75-8.

Players left to…

The 1912 Woodstock High School Football team photo was published in the 1913 Blue and White yearbook, where the players were identified by last name only. The team won three games against opponents from Belvidere, St Charles, Marengo and Harvard.
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The girls from the 7th grade class pose on the steps of Central School, which is now Woodstock City Hall at 121 W. Calhoun St. They are wearing their best skirts and dresses, making this a good source for anyone studying 1930s hair styles and clothes…

This photo shows band members in their uniforms and with their instruments. Betty Dietz Hayes has identified every person, starting with Clarence Olson, Director; Wayne Calahan, Superintendent, and Harry Abraham, Principal.

Clarence Olson was the…

The men in the photo are attaching the keys on the typewriter to the metal arms that control the type bars (also called strikers). Each striker has a metal letter on the end corresponding to the key that strikes the inked ribbon and leaves an…