Walkerton High School: the Indians

1914–1968 · the pre-consolidation teams

Before the Falcons, the town's teams were the Indians: Walkerton High School — its first building of 1914 holding all twelve grades, its 1942 building afterward the Harold C. Urey Middle School (the Schools section carries the buildings whole) — fielded teams known in the 1950s era as the Walkerton Indians, on the authority Sheneman's Southern St. Joseph County (Arcadia, 2004, p. 31) gives the school's account. The era's one game this build can already tell belongs to People: Walter LaFeber, class of 1951, scoring 35 points in a sectional game in his senior year — the same LaFeber who, three years earlier, was writing the town team's game stories for the Independent (the next article). The seasons themselves survive as a named record class: the northern-Indiana basketball catalogue at etpearl.homestead.com holds Walkerton schedules, rosters and scoring for 1930-31 through 1939-40 and 1943-44 through 1965-66 — the Indians' whole statistical course, unmined, standing in the gaps register as the settler for everything this article does not say.

Sources:

1. John Glenn High School, the school's published account, citing Nancy J. Sheneman, Southern St. Joseph County (Arcadia, 2004), p. 31 (the Walkerton Indians).
2. The Schools section of this build (the 1914 and 1942 buildings; the Urey Middle School succession).
3. The People leg of this build (LaFeber's 35-point sectional game, 1951).
4. The northern-Indiana basketball catalogue (etpearl.homestead.com) — the Walkerton season holdings as catalogued, named as a settler.