Hastings Tigers

We’ll go with the home team for post #2.

The Hastings High helmet has been unchanged since 1989 when new coach Walt Olson added this version of the Clemson paw to the Tigers orange shell (which had been blank since 1985). Around this time HHS also converted from white masks to black.

I’ll let my son add more later to this post, except to mention that the Clemson paw, so often imitated is protected by Clemson University by a small mark in the lower right area of the paw. You can see the notch in the paw on this Clemson sweatshirt. Hastings, Kearney and other paw-schools do not have that notch.

My all-time Hastings athlete list:

1. Tom Osborne- 1955 athlete of the year, NFL player, did a little coaching

2. Johnny Hopp- 1935, played in World Series for Yanks and Cards, MLB all-star (brother Harry (37) played for the NFL Lions)

3. Chuck Stickles- 1949, ‘Thin Man’ was all-America football and basketball at Hastings College

4. Doug Phelps- 1975 athlete of year, first 7-foot high jumper in Nebraska

5. Bo Buettenback- 1994, all-state football, all-state basketball, qb’d state football champs

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