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Team Histories — North Liberty
One team carries this town's deep history: the Shamrocks of North Liberty High School, a small county school's basketball-led program that played from at least 1920 to 1981, changed conferences once, produced one season the South Bend papers treated as a sectional threat, and ended not with a last-place finish but with a merger — its district folded into the John Glenn School Corporation and its students sent to play for its old rival. This section gives that arc whole at the record's strength, names the apparatus it cannot supply, and carries the Falcons only at the size of the town's share in them.
The founding, as far as the record reaches: a member school by 1920
By 1920 – 1932
No founding game, first coach, or first roster for the Shamrocks was reached. What the record gives is standing, not birth: the IHSAA's 1919–20 handbook lists North Liberty among its member schools, and the association's 1928…
The county-conference era, and the 19–1 winter of 1960–61
1932 – 1966
For thirty-four years the Shamrocks' world was the county's small schools and the South Bend sectional field. The reached record thins to flashes, and the flashes print at their strength. In February 1961 the Adams Tower, a…
The Northern State years and the end
1966 – 1981
In 1966 the Shamrocks moved with their peers into the Northern State Conference — into the same league as the new John Glenn Falcons, the rivalry the schools file records. The Walkerton Independent-News of 23 February 1967 shows…
Titles, re-derived: the honest accounting
Re-derived November 2026
No IHSAA state championship, in any sport, stands to North Liberty High School in the sanctioning record as reached. That sentence is the product of the required re-derivation, not of a summary: the IHSAA champions record and the conference state-championship tables were searched for the school's name and returned nothing, and the same test run for John Glenn High School returns zero state team titles, the conference table stating the count outright. Sectional and conference titles for the Shamrocks are a different ledger and a thinner one: no carrier reached enumerates them, and this section does not compile a count it cannot source season by season. The gap banks named — Shamrock sectional and conference championships, whole — and its settlers are Pearl's chronicle and the IHSAA's sectional champions lists.
The Falcons, at the town's size
1968 – present · boundary article
John Glenn's Falcons are Walkerton's team whole; the slice that is North Liberty's is the forty-odd years of North Liberty children on their rosters. The Falcons began in 1968, in a corporation North Liberty did not yet belong…
The second-team test: none
Tested November 2026
No other team with a history of its own — town, church, lodge, factory, or independent — was found in any source reached. In the floor cities this section runs to several files; in North Liberty it runs to one school team and its successor, and the honest shape of the leg is that shape. The test prints at web and newspaper-index search strength; the town paper's full run is the untested settler.