Shades Cahaba Coaches

Shades Cahaba Coaches

Apr 22, 2020 | Athletics

During Shades Cahaba’s 29 years as a high school, there were 6 coaches and they coached all the sports. Mainly football and baseball and early on basketball. The first decade saw the school go through most of the coaches until Oren Prentice Mitchell, better...
Girls Baseball Champions 1923

Girls Baseball Champions 1923

Apr 20, 2020 | Athletics

In the athletics episode, I mentioned that the Shades Cahaba girls baseball team was the 1923 champions. Here is the writeup in the Owl Yearbook. Listen to the episode at https://dev.shadescahabahistory.com/podcast/shades-cahaba-athletics
The 1945 Football Team

The 1945 Football Team

Apr 10, 2020 | Athletics, Media

Here are a few photos of the Shades Cahaba High School 1945 Football Team. In Coach Piggy Mitchell’s 12th year as head coach, the team went on to an 8-1 record.
1945 & 1946 Baseball Teams

1945 & 1946 Baseball Teams

Apr 9, 2020 | Athletics, Media

The photo of the 1945 baseball team in the main image states that they made the sixth out of eleven years that the team has entered the county prep playoff. The really tall person in the middle of the back row is Herb Griffin who we spoke with in Episode 6. He is also...
1926 & 1927 Baseball Teams

1926 & 1927 Baseball Teams

Apr 8, 2020 | Athletics, Media

Every year a baseball team was chosen, they had not started the season due to the time it took to get the yearbook printed and bound to be distributed by the end of the school year. In the 1926 book it said that the team was the division champions and the whole team...
1923 Girls Basketball Team

1923 Girls Basketball Team

Apr 6, 2020 | Athletics, Media

In the previous post we showed the boy’s basketball team so we can’t leave out the girl’s team. Here is a photo of the 1923. Unfortunately I did not capture the write-up in the yearbook. I do know that one of the girls in this photo is Helen...