Sports Cavalcade


The Early Years

The "Star" baseball team, c. 1888.  The boy standing second from the right is Louis Roos, 1891 LHS graduate, who would later be the Idaho National Guard adjutant and veteran of the Spanish-American War.


The Lewiston Athletic Club, the city's first football squad, 1894


Lewiston v Pullman WA, 5 December 1896


Lewiston State Normal School football team, 1903
North Western Interscholastic Champions


Lewiston High School's first girls' basketball team, 1904


The Temple Theater baseball team, 1907 ---
one of the earliest business-sponsored teams in the area


By 1907, Lewiston children had organized themselves into teams,
with regular schedules much like today's Little League.


Lewiston State Normal baseball team, 1909


Lewiston High School's girls' basketball team, 1914


The Speed Kings, 24-25 October 1915


Lewiston High School state champion track team, 1918


Image sources:
Idaho Historical Society
Nez Perce Historical Society
Lewiston Morning Tribune
Lewiston High School
Fran Rader Studios
Mike Mitchell