Wolf football players didn’t need face masks in the ’50s. They might have liked them … but they didn’t need them. (Photos courtesy Shelli Trumbull)
To everyone who thought the guys wore short shorts in the ’80s, I give you the “I can’t breath” fashion line.
Ah, when baseball players showed off their socks, instead of today’s style of pulling your pants all the way down so you look like you’re wearing pajamas.
Farm boys with wooden rackets. Let the butt-whuppin’ commence, city boys.
It was a different time.
Coupeville High School sports in the early 1950s featured no face masks in football, really short shorts in basketball and wooden rackets in tennis, among other things.
Plus, not a single female athlete to be seen in those days.
While some of the changes in the last 65-70 years have been positive, I still miss the days when baseball players hiked up their pants and looked like baseball players, not guys in pajamas at a sleep-over.
The photos above, which capture an early generation of Wolf heroes — a lot of Sherman, Libbey and Engle sprinkled throughout — come to us courtesy of CHS grad Shelli (Huff) Trumbull.
While her own family represents one of the strong tendrils shooting off from the Wolf Nation tree, she married into another robust one, as well.
Father-in-law Bill Trumbull (seen in these pics) was Class of ’55, while husband Brad (’88) and son Aaron (’15) have all starred while pulling on the red and white.
“60 years of Trumbull men playing varsity sports at CHS. Some of my favorite men!,” she said with a huge smile.
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