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23-557: Santa Rosa High School may refer to: Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California) Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, New Mexico) , a high school of Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools in Santa Rosa, New Mexico Santa Rosa High School (Texas) , a high school in the Santa Rosa Independent School District in Santa Rosa, Texas [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
46-497: A college graduate who played football at Valparaiso University in Indiana. The Kelleys, residing in the northernmost city in the NFL at the time, had the disadvantage of not being able to play at home during late November and early December, due to the harsh winters in northern Minnesota. This meant that Duluth either played unusually short seasons (they played only 16 games in three years as
69-606: A wide variety of athletic programs and competes in the 5-A North Bay League of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation . The teams are known as the Santa Rosa Panthers. Sports offered include football, volleyball, cross country, tennis, golf, basketball, wrestling, soccer, baseball, softball, track and field, badminton, and swimming. The cross country varsity boys team
92-539: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, California) Santa Rosa High School ( SRHS ) is a secondary school located in Santa Rosa, California . It is part of the Santa Rosa City High School District, which is itself part of Santa Rosa City Schools . Santa Rosa High School has 1,991 students as of
115-801: The Los Angeles Buccaneers represented the West Coast, the Louisville Colonels represented the Southeast, and the Buffalo Rangers represented Texas and the Desert Southwest . The Eskimos joined in on the trend, becoming a traveling team (assumably representing the far northern states) and allowing themselves to play a far longer season than the Kelleys did. After one home game at the beginning of
138-485: The National Football League . In 1925 the football field at Santa Rosa High School was renamed Nevers Field in his honor. In 2004, just in time for the homecoming game, a $ 2 million refurbishment of Nevers Field was completed. The improvements included an artificial turf, an all-weather 8-lane track, new bleachers, a snack bar and ticket booth, restrooms, and lights for night games. Santa Rosa High School has
161-789: The Washington Commanders . However, due to the two-year period of dormancy, the Washington Commanders and the NFL consider the Boston/Washington franchise as a separate organization dating to 1932, and not as a continuation of the Tornadoes nor the Eskimos/Kelleys. A second, unrelated, Duluth football team carried the "Eskimos" name, and played at the Northwest Football League in 1936. The 2008 film Leatherheads
184-564: The 1926 season, the Eskimos never played in Duluth again. The team finished in the middle of the NFL standings in 1926, prompting the Eskimos to continue the traveling team setup. In 1927, the results were far more negative: winning only one game. Owner Ole Haugsrud then sold the team back to the league at the end of the season. Haugsrud was able to buy 10% of the Minnesota Vikings (90% of the team
207-595: The 1927 season. A distinction of the Eskimos is they were one of the first NFL teams to use a logo. The team initially formed in 1923 as the Kelleys (officially the Kelley Duluths, after the Kelley-Duluth Hardware Store ). The team joined the National Football League on July 28, 1923. The team was put together by Kelley-Duluth Hardware Store owner M. C. Gebert with the help of Dewey Scanlon,
230-451: The 2017–2018 school year. SRHS was the only public high school for Santa Rosa from 1874 to 1958. Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), located on the adjacent property, was actually a part of Santa Rosa High School from 1918 to 1927. The school had several locations. The previous location on Humboldt Street burned to the ground in 1921. The school was moved to its current location and opened in 1924. The school's current Brick Gothic design
253-466: The Abbotts (1997). Director Wes Craven applied for the use of Santa Rosa High School and reached a verbal agreement with the principal of the school for the filming of his 1996 horror film Scream . Just days before filming was to begin, the school board denied permission for the use of the school. In response, following the listing of organizations and individuals whom the filmmakers wished to thank in
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#1732854814278276-747: The California Gold Ribbon Award, which replaced the California Distinguished Schools Award as the highest award a school can receive from the state of California. Ernie Nevers attended Santa Rosa High School, where he excelled in football . In 1920, as a senior, he led the team to the NCS Championships. He went on to attend Stanford University , and play for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of
299-560: The Kelleys—seven in 1923, six in 1924 and three in 1925) or had to play on the road (as the Eskimos did, which allowed them to have much longer schedules). Duluth's best season came in 1924, when the Kelleys went 5–1, putting the Kelleys in fourth place. The Kelleys lost their name sponsorship in 1926, but signed star running back Ernie Nevers . The team renamed themselves Ernie Nevers's Eskimos in response to these developments. The 1926 NFL season saw an increased emphasis on traveling teams:
322-459: The Tornadoes to be the successors of the Eskimos. The Tornadoes moved to Newark for the 1930 season before going back to the minors. When Simandl handed the franchise rights back to the league, it was understood that the first new expansion team of the 1931 season would receive the Tornadoes' old franchise. Because of the Great Depression, no buyer was found, and the league ended up putting
345-504: The closing credits of Scream , Craven included the note, "No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board". Time Magazine, Sept. 28, 1978. Duluth Eskimos The Duluth Eskimos were a professional football team from Duluth, Minnesota in the National Football League (NFL). After spending most of their time as a traveling team , they withdrew from the league after
368-592: The filming schedule, and the filming team had to relocate to a different school for their set. In the credits of the movie, Wes Craven mentions this towards the end by writing, "No thanks whatsoever to The Santa Rosa City School District governing board." as a joke. In 2011, Santa Rosa High School received the California Distinguished School and the California Career Technical Awards. In 2015, Santa Rosa High School received
391-592: The franchise on the field as the Cleveland Indians under collective ownership. In 1932, a Boston group received the next expansion franchise; strong circumstantial evidence indicates that it was awarded the assets of the failed Tornadoes/Indians organization. This group used it to start the Boston Braves. In 1933, the team was renamed the Redskins, and in 1937 it moved to Washington, D.C. where it still plays as
414-526: The groups include anime club, arts and writing club, chess club, debate club, Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), InterKey, math club, National Honor Society (NHS), and the writer's group. The Santa Rosa High School Foundation is a group of alumni who take an active interest in SRHS. The Foundation helps raise money for school programs and other services. Santa Rosa High School was used for several Hollywood movies, including Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Inventing
437-491: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Santa_Rosa_High_School&oldid=1108460982 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
460-508: Was created by W. H. Weeks in 1922. For the 1996 horror movie, Scream , there was a plan to have filming set in Sanga Rose High School. They planned on sending $ 50,000 to the school after filming there for ten days. However, after hearing complaints at a school board meeting from parents of students of the school at the time, who had concerns about their children's safety, the district backed out of their plans, causing trouble with
483-673: Was owned by an ownership group that had originally planned to launch a separate team in the American Football League ). Due to various transactions, the Kelleys/Eskimos have a tenuous link to the modern NFL. Edwin Simandl , a promoter in Orange, New Jersey ; bought the defunct franchise on July 27, 1929, for the 1929 season and used it to promote his decades-old Orange Tornadoes to the major leagues. The NFL, however, did not consider
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#1732854814278506-460: Was recently awarded the prestigious Jack London Award for Educational Excellence. Santa Rosa High School has a journalism class that produces newspapers about once a month. Entitled The Santa Rosan, it has consistently won awards at the annual Press Democrat competition, among others, and in 2012 won second overall. Santa Rosa High School has several student-organized and teacher-supervised clubs, ranging from many different subjects. Some of
529-513: Was the undefeated league champions, a record of 7-0, in the 2008-2009 season. In the 2016 swim season, both men's and women's varsity teams were undefeated with 7-0 records. In the 2017 school season, the boys team was similarly undefeated. ArtQuest is a magnet program for Santa Rosa High School that allows students to take classes with a focus on the arts. ArtQuest has specialty course work in visual fine arts, dance, theatre arts, photography, instrumental and vocal music, digital arts, and video. It
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