Mustang Vintage Page-----The 1930's
                         The Lipscomb Football Chronicles
   WE are now updating this page and still researching information to be included.  Check out the addditional information at the bottom of the page.
 
An Newspaper article circa 1937.  Mustangs lose to Central High School
                Circa 1935 Season                Circa 1935 Season    Yearbook write up on the 35 Season
               1935 Head Coach                 1936 Head Coach                  1937 Head Coach                  1938 Head Coach
     The Jerseys were red and white   Action Picture from either 1936 or 37          Backlog Write up Part1           Backlog Write up Part 2
    Another picture of Coach Nance            1938 Backlog Write up               1938 Action Picture                1938 Action Picture
     1938 Backlog Write up Part 1      1938 Backlog Write up Part 2                      1938 Players                           1938 Players
 
                      The 1938 Players                    The 1938 Players Early Mustang Football History by Bob Neil  

Tidbits of information about the Mustang Football teams of the 1930's.
**The team practiced and played their games on a old corn field that ran parallel to Belmont Blvd (approximately 100 feet off the road) in area that would be in front of the present Burton Administration Building.  There was on old barn nearby where the school kept their mules, which were used to pull the plows and the mowers to keep the field cut.
**In 1934 the Presidency of Lipscomb was turned over to E. H. Ijams.  President Ijams word has it attended or studied some at USC and loved the football team and told many stories of Trojan football.  So Mustang football became a reality under his administration--his son soon became a member of the team.  There were other men on the campus who also had a love of the the game. (See Early Mustang Football History above) 
**As mentioned above, the Team jerseys were red and white.  Off the former players we spoke to unlike today, the jerseys were given back at the end of the year.  We would love to get on and put it on display.
**At time, The high school area only had approximately 100 students.  The former players we spoke to believed that they did have cheerleaders and the team was well received by the student body.
**Why was football program discontinued?  We are still trying to research this topic.  One of the former players we interviewed did not know that they had stopped the program and that it has been in placed since 1935.  An early guess based on some related research,  President Ijams may have discontinued the program as a money saving effort as he was trying to reducing the school's debt.  Another thought,  with so few male bodies in the high school, it is believed in 1939 there was not enough players to field a team Also, Basketball was very important on both sides of the campus during that time period.  We will update this as more information comes in.
**Back in those early days, the fields were not as in the same type shape as they are today.  Several players referenced the old high school football field in White Bluff.  It must have been really rough.

**More to come as our research continues........