First Trip to State

In March 1923, the Cuba City High School boys' basketball team made their first trip to the state tournament.

This team photograph of the 1923 winning team was published in the Tri-County Press on February 12, 1970. Front row: Roscoe Nankivil, Ernest Peacock, Albert Winn, Keith Brewer, Coach Herman Jacobsen. Back row: Ed Schmieder, Wallace McNett, John Harris, Byron Goldthorpe. Courtesy of LouAnn Nystrom.

While the Telegraph Herald credited Coach Herman L. Jacobson with much of the team's success, the paper admitted that "the splendid fighting spirit of the Cuba City tossers is deserving of much praise."

Cuba City’s record for the 1922-23 season, as reported in the Telegraph Herald*:

Cuba City, 10; Belmont 15

Cuba City, 14; Benton, 10

Cuba City, 14; Belmont, 6

Cuba City, 20; Hazel Green, 5

Cuba City, 9; Hazel Green, 5

Cuba City, 16; Columbia Acad., 20

Cuba City, 21; Mt. Horeb, 17

Cuba City, 8; Dodgeville, 9

Cuba City, 16; Benton, 5

Cuba City, 14; Platteville, 6

Cuba City, 15; Dodgeville, 27

Cuba City, 16; Platteville, 10

Tournament:

Cuba City, 14; Platteville, 12

Cuba City, 18; Patch Grove, 11

Cuba City, 13; Fennimore, 12

The 1923 team was not triumphant at the state tournament, losing to Two Rivers and Appleton, but it would be far from the last time a Cuba City team put in an appearance at Madison.

*"Cuba City Has Good Record," Dubuque Telegraph Herald, March 25, 1923, 24.