LHS Football Captains, 1923

This year old L.H.S. came to the front and started the grand old college game as one of its major sports. Early in the fall a meeting was held and it was bound that neither the school board nor the school could afford to purchase equipment to outfit the team. But this bunch of football pioneers were not to be discouraged, so a committee was appointed to raise the necessary money. Elliot Belshaw, Elton Little and Castle Brownell were the committee. They succeeded in raising approximately two hundred and fifty dollars from subscriptions of the loyal business men. This money was invested in uniforms. And so football got its start.

Handicapped in every way, the small bunch of fellows, numbering about twenty, loyally took the bumps and knocks of the gruelling practice and came through still kicking.

Early in the season Elton "Chick" Little was elected captain and he served his place notably, playing his hardest and encouraging others, and his name along with the rest of those boys will go down in the annals of L.H.S. as upbuilders and boosters.

Late in the season a remarkable find was made when Gerald "Bud" Dickinson was tried out at quarterback. He showed to be a line wrecker and a ground-gaining fool. As he was greatly deserving, he was elected captain to pilot the football team for next year. Above you see the pictures of our first football captains in seventeen years.