Remembering the 1956 Frederick Championship
FREDERICK — Dean Wild gathered his boys together on the golden August grass.
Tensions ran high on the first day of football practice 1956, which mixed boys from opposite sides of the tracks, from the same town but separate schools and separate teams and separate worlds.
So Wild, in his second season as Frederick High School 's coach, ordered pig-in-a-pen. The Bombers formed circles of 8-10 guys. Wild would...
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