WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION
The Western North Carolina High School
Activities Association was founded on December 10, 1929. Charter members
included Belmont, Concord, Kings Mountain, Lexington, Lincolnton, Monroe,
Newton, Mooresville, Black Mountain, Cliffside, Hickory, Lenoir, Marion, Morganton,
and Rutherfordton-Spindale.
The WNCHSAA grew to 42 members in four
conferences before it was dissolved in June of 1977 and its members joined the
NCHSAA.
Only three of the 42 members failed to
win a Western title in some sport during the WNCHSAA's existence and it had
some outstanding football programs in it.
W.C. Clary served for many years as
the executive director of the organization.
From 1930-1953, the WNCHSAA had two
conferences, South Piedmont and Western. Round robin league schedules were not
played; therefore numerous times two teams would finish tied for the loop
crown. Occasionally, a playoff was held for a particular conference, but an overall
WNCHSAA title game was rarely played.
1930-1976 WNCHSAA CHAMPIONS
1930
Hickory and
Monroe - no game
1931
Hickory and
Morganton - no game
1932
Hickory and Newton-Conover
- no game*
*These two teams met late in the
regular season with Hickory winning 19-0. However, an official title game was
not played.
1933
Lexington and
Newton-Conover - no game
1934
Lexington and
Cherryville - no game
1935
Concord 39,
Newton-Conover 0
1936
Winston-Salem
Children's Home and Newton-Conover - no game
1937
Winston-Salem
Chidren's Home and Forest City - no game
1938
Winston-Salem
Children's Home, Lexington and Lenoir
1939
Lexington and
Morganton - no game
1940
Lexington,
Statesville and Morganton - no game
1941
Barium Springs
and Morganton - no game
1942
Thomasville
Mills Home and Marion - no game
1943
Winston-Salem
Children's Home and Hickory
1944
Albemarle 19,
Shelby 0
1945
Winston-Salem
Children's Home and Newton-Conover - no game
1946
Albemarle and
Morganton - no game
1947
Winston-Salem
Children's Home and Shelby - no game**
1947
Harvest Bowl:
Concord 13, Shelby 6
1948
Statesville
and Charlotte Tech - no game
1949
Winston-Salem
Children's Home, Monroe, and Lenoir - no game**
1949
Harvest Bowl:
Monroe 13, Lenoir 13
1950 Asheboro and Lenoir - no game
1951
Lenoir 19,
Wilkes Central 14
1952 Lenoir 25, Children's Home 19
1953 Albemarle 7, Belmont 6
1954 Lexington 19, Albemarle 14
1955 four conference champions - no game
1956
Lexington and
Kings Mountain - no overall title game
1957
Albemarle 54,
Marion 6
1958 Asheboro 33, Hickory 14
1959 Hickory 34, Albemarle 13
1960 Kannapolis Brown 0, Hickory 0 (Tie)
1961
Mooresville
13, Hickory 12
1962 Wilkes Central 14, Asheboro 7
1963 Asheboro 21, Shelby 6
1964 Thomasville 20, Hickory 13
1965 Asheboro 34, East Rutherford 7
1966 Hickory 41, Statesville 7
1967 Lexington 33, Lincolnton 12
1968 Shelby 32, Thomasville 12
1969 East Rowan 26, Shelby 21
1970 Shelby 13, Salisbury 7
1971 Salisbury 14, Belmont South Point 14
(Tie)
1972
Shelby 26,
Mooresville 21
1973 Salisbury 13, Watauga 0
1974 Salisbury 14, Shelby 3
1975 North Davidson 21, Shelby 21 (Tie)
1976
Shelby 25,
Lexington 0
** In 1947 Hickory officials
inaugurated a bowl game to be played at Lenoir-Rhyne College featuring two of
the top teams in WNCHSAA; one from each conference. The game was played from
1947-1950. The teams were selected several weeks before the end of the regular
season, making it difficult to pick the league champion.
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