Shawnee 15
Capitol Hill 0
Nov. 26, 1932

Three years after the start of the Great Depression and nine years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Shawnee’s football team traveled to Oklahoma City’s Goldbug Field to tackle Oklahoma City’s premier prep squad, the Capitol Hill Redskins.

The two squads met during the regular season and played to a scoreless tie. The return engagement between the Wolves and the Redskins, played on a Saturday night, was actually a charity battle.

Shawnee defeated Altus on Wednesday night at Hurt Field. The next day, coaches Ray LeCrone of Shawnee and Jim Lookabaugh of Capitol Hill agreed to play Saturday.

Shawnee not only possessed a 10-0-1 record entering its rematch with Capitol Hill but hadn’t surrendered a point the entire season.

In The News-Star’s Sunday report of the much-heralded game, the lead paragraph read just as follows — “Led by cotton head Jack Baer and burly co-captain Aubrey Anthony, the Shawnee high school Wolves, the greatest high school eleven that ever trod Oklahoma turf, gained sweet revenge over the Capitol Hill Redskins, the only eleven which has held them to so much as a scoreless tie, by scoring a smashing 15 to 0 triumph before a howling and near capacity charity crowd. Held scoreless during the first half, the Wolves, coached by Ray LeCrone, came back for the final two periods, with entirely too much power, versatility and speed for the Redskins in a game heralded as for the ‘unofficial state championship’.”

Much like the regular-season game, the defenses ruled in the opening half and there was no score by intermission. Shawnee out-offensed Capitol Hill 101-59 in the opening half.

Capitol Hill’s only first-half scoring threat came in the first quarter as it moved to the Wolfpack 10, only to turn the ball over on fourth down.

Baer, who later became the head baseball coach at Oklahoma, launched the scoring with a 13-yard field goal in the third quarter. The 3-pointer came after Shawnee’s ground attack drove to the 3-yard line. The FG was set up by Melvin Skelton’s interception at the Redskins’ 40.

Less than three minutes following the field goal, Skelton capped a drive with a 3-yard TD maneuver. The touchdown drive was set up by Baer’s 42-yard punt return to the 25.

Late in the fourth quarter, Aubrey Anthony of Shawnee concluded the scoring by returning an intercepted pass 55 yards.

Earlier in the final quarter, another Baer punt return — this one to the CH 36 — set up a drive that was eventually foiled at the 1. Baer barely missed a 29-yard FG attempt on Shawnee’s next possession.

Shawnee out-rushed Capitol Hill 234-94 and accumulated 13 first downs to six for the losers. Both squads had 38 passing yards on three completions.

Shawnee defensive players Carl Anderson and Ed Thompson were lauded for their play.

The victory concluded an 11-0-1 SHS season.

At Shawnee’s annual football banquet, speaker Vic Hurt, Oklahoma Baptist University’s athletic director, said, “You have finished a greater season than any high school team in the country anywhere. You are the greatest high school team I have ever seen. The season is now closed and you can look back always with that feeling of satisfaction that comes with conviction that a job has been well done.”

On the season, Shawnee outscored opponents 278-0.

The Wolves lost 12 seniors to graduation: Hub Shaw, Alton Romberg, Ovid Beardon, Mickey Parks, Aubrey Anthony, Marvin Moats, Marvin Atterberry, J.F. Rhyne, Harry Bryant, L.T.Best, Herbert Morris and Howard Ellenberg.