{"id":6529,"date":"2013-12-16T05:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T12:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2013-12-16T05:47:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T12:47:33","slug":"football-holyoke-high-school-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/football-holyoke-high-school-1935\/","title":{"rendered":"Football, Holyoke High School, 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Picture, 1935. Wish everyone was identified!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6530\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2013\/12\/16\/football-holyoke-high-school-1935\/football-hhs-1935-lo-res\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6530\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6530\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6530\" alt=\"Holyoke High School, Football, 1935\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/football-HHS-1935-lo-res.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/football-HHS-1935-lo-res.jpg 800w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/football-HHS-1935-lo-res-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holyoke High School, Football, 1935<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the beginning of the 1934 football season Coach Sullivan was faced with the difficult task of building a winning team from a squad containing only three veterans. In spite of this handicap, however, a team was placed on the gridiron that made history. Led by Captain &#8220;Bob&#8221; Lempke, Holyoke&#8217;s fast but light team went through its schedule undefeated, a tie with Classical High School of Springfield being the only game to mar a perfect record. It was the first time in some years that such a stellar performance has been credited to a Holyoke High football team. Its enviable record is the sign of the excellence of team play and good-fellowship that characterized the whole squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Picture, 1935. Wish everyone was identified! At the beginning of the 1934 football season Coach Sullivan was faced with the difficult task of building a winning team from a squad containing only three veterans. In spite of this handicap, however, a team was placed on the gridiron that made history. Led by Captain &#8220;Bob&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,494,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}