High School only went up to 10th grade until 1914
 Photograph and history provided by Ervin B. Shaw M.D. '62 Class of 1906 Sumter High School Football TeamSitting L-R: Henry Blackwell, Robert Tillman Brown, Wes Collins (captain), William Judson Shaw, Henry A. DavisKneeling L-R: Paul K. Bowman, William F. B. Haynsworth, James J. Chandler, Wyndham Manning (helmet) Standing L-R: Brandon Jones, Herbert Wharton Beall Jr., Hubert Green The 1906 Sumter High School (SHS), S. C. football team photo taken after a 92-0 whipping of an uncertain opponent. It is said that the 1906 team only had one helmet for the entire team! Wes Collins (captain) is holding football & R. T. Brown at right of Wes and Will Shaw to left of Wes. According to articles by J. Bossard Dick in the March 2, 1950 Sumter Daily Item & the May 17, 1950 Sesquicentennial Edition of the Sumter Daily Item, the first organized football team in Sumter was the 1901 team of Sumter Military Academy and Female Seminary (SMA); the 1902 SMA team went undefeated and unsecured upon; the 1925 SHS team only lost one game because someone put croton oil in the SHS pre-game meal; the 1939 team had 9 wins, 2 ties, and 1 loss; the 1949 team lost only one game by one point. |