Historical Notes

The Hyannis Patriot newspaper reported in 1925 that team captain George Harrison, the mainstay of the Barnstable High School football team, had suffered a season-ending injury in the 10-3-25 game versus Provincetown. He had originally served as team captain. It is not known if the team selected another captain in his place. 1925 would have been Harrison's third season as captain. The Patriot reported the injury as follows:

        "The football boys sent George Harrison -- who at the hospital with a broken leg -- a large basket of fruit and a carton of cigarettes."

       It should also be noted that this was the first season played at the brand new high school building at the end of School Road in Hyannis. The high school was originally built in 1905, then razed and rebuilt in 1925. It was later added onto, substantially so in 1929. The year 1925 also marked the second season coached by Harold Keaney, hired in 1924 as the first coach of the boys' football team. While commonly known as Barnstable High School, the school was more colloquially dubbed Hyannis High School pre-1925. The town also boasted Elizabeth Lowell High School in Cotuit, located where Elizabeth Lowell Park now stands and serves as the home of the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Elizabeth Lowell High School was closed in 1926. All high school students then attended Barnstable High School in Hyannis.