Look at how many small schools have one or two boys’ or girls’ basketball championships. The Melrose boys’ basketball 1937 title is the only one in Monroe County! The year after that, Diagonal won, and it shares the Ringgold County spotlight with a Mount Ayr girls’ track title in 1988.
Perhaps the least off is Decatur County, which has one co-championship in boys’ track over half a century ago. I think “boys’ state mile” is the most obscure, from 1935-73, and in many cases is one of very few championships won in a county. Iowa went metric in track in 1978.
In Tama County, North Tama girls’ track accounts for seven of the county’s 17 titles. Clutier’s 1942 girls’ basketball championship (pictured top, in the Iowa Hall of Pride) was the first in the county. And then, of course, North Tama’s 2010 football title is the most recent.