In the second-to-last game of 1997, the undefeated North Tama Redhawks suffered a heartbreaking 7-6 loss to the Hudson Pirates. A loss to Wapsie Valley the next week kept a 7-2 NT team out of the Class 1A playoffs that year.
The next year, Hudson was promoted to Class 2A, and a three-decade series from the North Iowa Cedar League was gone.
Next fall, the bordering school districts will play each other in football for the first time since that game 17 (!!) years ago. Both the 2014 and 2015 non-district games will take place the second Friday in October.