Well, if there’s anything that’s gonna strike fear into the
hearts of your opponents, it’s gonna be “a person or company who uses water
supplied to their land to help crops and plants grow.” I mean, I’m trembling in
fear here just typing in those words.
Newell is in the central western part of the state, almost
on the Wyoming border. It has not quite 600 folks, and dates back to 1910. They
like to call themselves the Nation’s Sheep Capital.
The town was named after FH Newell, head of the Unites
States Reclimation Service (which “oversees water resource management,
specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion,
delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United
States.”). Quite a prolific author, he penned Agriculture by Irrigation (1894),
Irrigation in the United States (1902), Principles of Irrigation
Engineering (1913), Irrigation Management (1916), and many more.
So, I guess it make some sense to call the local team the
Irrigators. Not a lot of sense, but hey … Thankfully, it sounds like locals call
them the Gators for short.
The school dates back to 1922. Someone on Wikipedia called
it “the most imposing structure in Newell … [and an] outstanding example of the
English Vernacular Revival.”
To me, it kinda just looks like a big, brown box
They’ve only got 75 students in toto. Not sure how they can
field any teams. Here, for example, is the entire senior class of 2022:
They do, though, have a mascot … an extremely lame
mascot.
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