Best Emporia Team Ever To Meet After 50 Years
By The Star's Own Service, 1976

    Emporia, Kan.—It's been 50 years since Emporia Kansas State College produced its only undefeated, untied football team. That team, its coach and those seven victories will be honored at a football reunion at homecoming this weekend.
     The coach of 1926 Kansas State Teachers College Yellowjackets, H. W. (Bill) Hargiss, and 12 team members will be honored at a dinner Friday, at the K-Club-Hornet Club breakfast Saturday and later in the day at half-time in the football game between Emporia State and Fort Hays State College.
     During the 1926 season, the Yellowjackets scored 149 points and their opponents scored only 3, as Emporia easily grabbed the Kansas Conference championship. Of the 30 players on the 1926 team, 13 are known to be living...

Front row:
Menzo "Bonz" Hainline
Arthur "Shorty" Hoch
H. W. "Bill" Hargiss
Jackson Austin

Back row:
Emory Cox
Pierce "Buck" Astle
Almus Roberts
Oliver Clapp
Lawrence "Zeke" Carrier
Dale Burnett
Wallace Sipe

Bill Hargiss with Menzo Hainline in 1976.  Bill is 89.