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Kiowa
Football Team
1940
Six-man football
team
1940 JV
team
STATE
CHAMPIONS
Top Row L-R:
J. A. Darden, Charlie O'Daniel, James Prather, Frankie Russell, Leroy
Jarvis, J. B. Ray, Charlie Stites.
Bottom Row L-R: Leon Wheeler, Junior Derryberry, George
Kaleta, Wayne Rowe, Roger Allen, J. L. Ragun, Paul Shouse, Coach Earl
Cartwright.
First
Football Team
after many years
1963-64
Top Row:
Tommy Peak, Royce Manion, Donald Maxwell, Jerry Wilson, Bobby
Richardson, Bear Gilliam, Bill Newberry, Tom Fereday, George Riddle.
2nd Row: Leon Mitchell, Royce Wilkins, Dale Hall,
George Schwarz, Bill Newberry, Homer Walker, Rodney Ray, Gary Ainsworth.
3rd Row: Tony Schwarz, Joe Watkins, Ernest Cole, John
Jacobs, Wayne Walker, Jimmy Don Patton, Ronnie Thompson.
4th Row: Bobby Cox, Lee Roy Trammell, Coach Paul Davis,
Buster Schwarz, Ray Adams
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The first school in Kiowa was taught
in an empty railroad car along side the Katy Tracks in
1872. The second school, which was the first stationary school, was a one-room
log cabin in the neighborhood of the Kiowa cemetery. In
1902 the third school was
a two-story frame building located just north of where the old red brick
building now stands west of Hatco. It is on the left in the picture below.
In 1908 the brick structure
on the right was
built just south of this building. This was the fourth
structure for the the school. The old lunch room
(portion of the stage and dressing rooms of the older structure), boiler
room, and FFA building (all of which are
still being used by Hatco) were part of this structure.
 South Wing
1908
As attendance grew the demand for
additional classrooms was answered by an identical north wing with an auditorium
connecting the two wings. It was completed in time for fall classes in 1911.
Total cost of the building was $30,000. The building was prized in the
territory for its spacious classrooms, steam heat, modern science lab and
business class. The basement part of this
building was not destroyed when a new building was built in 1936. Part of
it was used by the FFA for a classroom until 1963. The south end was
used as a lunchroom by Kiowa School until 1976. After the elementary
school was moved in 1976, the Head Start program continued to use it as a
lunchroom.
North Wing and Auditorium
(in middle)
Finished in 1911
Drawing
by Chris Tucker
Around 1911,
after the addition had been made to the brick building,
the frame building
which was the third school building in the photo at the
top was moved across the tracks in the vicinity
just east and south of the old
depot
(near Herb Cox home). It
was remodeled and became the Commercial Hotel.
Kiowa's enrollment dropped drastically
during the early 1930's and maintenance on such a large building was too
costly and the space unwarranted. In 1936, a new structure was
built just in front of the location of the old building by the Works
Progress Administration (WPA). The high school students used this
building through the spring semester of 1963. Elementary students
occupied the building until 1976. The north side was used to house
the Head Start program until 1998, and the south wing for Senior
Citizens until 1993. The gymnasium, which is now the home of Hatco
Feed, was built by the WPA in 1941.
1936 – (1963 High School) (1976
Elementary)
East of Highway 69 on Highway 63 was the location
selected for a new high school that opened the
fall semester of 1963. In 1976 a new elementary
addition was constructed joining the high school
building by a breezeway. In January of 1991 two
computer labs, a library, and three additional
classrooms were built in the breezeway area. The
old gym across town was used until a new one was built
on the new site in 1985.
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Kiowa
Girls Basketball
1929
Top Row L-R:
Coach Sam Roberts, Minnie Davinson, Lucy Frosco, Mable Hudspeth, Mary
Olive Dye, Evelyn Quinlan.
Bottom Row L-R: Gene Leflore, Goldie Hudspeth, Fay
Nelson, Oylive Redwine.
Kiowa
Boys Basketball
1929
Top Row L-R:
Coach Sam Roberts, Upton Dye, Wheeler Carter, Dawson Gorman, Lacy Ward.
Bottom Row L-R:
Hubert Tipps, Dawson Knox, Johnnie Hudspeth, Ralph Nunally.
1958 FFA Chapter
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