The 1940s begin with a perfect football season and a state championship claimed on Thanksgiving Day. It ended with two Hall of Famers taking the basketball team to the brink of the long sought after state tournament championship. In between Hastings High and its leaders helped develop a conference that would dominate the state for twenty years and be a major force for forty.
Football 40
Not the first state title of decade: gym back-to-back
Don Duncan scoring marks the beginning of modern basketball at HHS
Baseball experiment
Big Ten
other conference wins
gymnasts return to top
Coach Bassett
1948 upset of GI into 1949 championship run