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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Mathis and Wheeler earned All-Southern honorable mention status for
the season.

Hooser also emphasized track, and Columbia went on to win the district

and Northeast Conference championships in 1936, the former for the
fourth consecutive year and the latter for the third.

For whatever reasons, 1935 proved to be a watershed in football for the
Hooser era. It might have been inevitable—in the legendary coach’s first

four years Columbia was 40-1-2—and that level of success is hard to
maintain.

The Tigers were 4-1 in the shortened season, but years of mediocrity
followed. Columbia did win nine games in 1938, but also lost eight

games in 1940. From 1936-41, when Hooser left, CHS was a very
average 29-28-6 in football.

Columbia was back in good graces with the FHSAA when Hooser was
scheduling the 1936 season, but Gainesville High’s coach Howard

Bishop and principal Buchholz refused to play.

It would be nine years before the series resumed.

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