It defeated Warren Easton of New Orleans for the first high school state title, by a score of 27–0. At the time the school regularly scheduled a mix of university varsity, university junior varsity, club, and high school teams. The first champion, Jefferson College of Convent in 1907, had a campus that consisted of a high school, junior college, and college.
In 19 there were three or even four games that had been designated as state championships, as the annual State Fair of Louisiana in Shreveport and National Farm and Live Stock Show in New Orleans respectively had staged games for the title that had been considered too early in the season by some schools to truly settle the issue of crowning a champion. In high school football's early years, a number of prominent schools added late season games against other strong teams and claimed that these games would be for the "state championship." In some cases a third team that felt unfairly left out of the process would then challenge the winner of that state championship contest to a game of their own shortly afterward, effectively meaning that there would be a second state championship game that very same season-effectively creating an early form of playoffs, just without the sponsorship of a controlling legal authority. : 8 Informal state championship games (1907–1929) The first of these organizations, the Interscholastic Football League, was sponsored by the Tulane Athletic Association and began play for the city's pennant during the 1895 campaign.
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Several early games are notable exceptions to this, but even then these games usually featured a home team as a draw neutral playing sites may have given this series of games a stronger sense of legitimacy.įor what it is worth, in high school football's earliest days multiple New Orleans-area regional organizations-that were at times administered by Tulane University-came and went : 8 : 16 that could have theoretically also determined de facto state champions based sheerly on the lack of existing teams in other parts of the state. 18 Louisiana Independent Football Tournament (2015–Present)Īlthough numerous late-season games are known to have been hastily scheduled between prominent teams and informally dubbed "state championship" games back in high school football's early years, : 32 these games generally based their authority solely on general acclamation and were held without formal, independent third-party sponsors.17 Association of Christian Educators of Louisiana (2012–2014).16 Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association (2006–2011).15 Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (1988–Present).14 Louisiana Independent School Association (1970–1991).12 Louisiana Prep Grid Standard (1957–1959).11 Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization (1950–1969).10 Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Association (1936–1949).9 Shreveport Chamber of Commerce (1923).8 National Farm and Live Stock Show and Live Stock Buyers' Convention (1917).7 Louisiana High School Athletic Association (1916–Present).3 Louisiana State University Athletic Department (1909).2 Informal state championship games (1907–1929).
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