IHSA

Season Summaries

Speech Sweepstakes

Last updated on April 25, 2008.

Season summaries include titles won, final place in state, final won-lost record, and head coach for all seasons submitted by the school or gathered from IHSA records. A few titles are missing (complete list of missing titles). Please submit changes or additions for your school by using this form.

Key to titles: Pl–place won, D–district, R–regional, S–sectional, U–super-sectional, Q–team qualifier for state finals, P–Public League champion (only when an automatic qualifier).


 1950-51
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Freeport (H.S.) | S 1 | | Evanston (Twp.) | 2 | | Elgin (H.S.) | S 3 | | LaGrange (Lyons) | S 4 | | Rock Island (H.S.) | S 5 | | Winnetka (New Trier) | 6 | | Champaign (H.S.) | S 7 | | Galesburg (H.S.) | 7 | | Joliet (Twp.) | 7 | | Rockford (East) | 7 | | DuQuoin (H.S.) | S | | Peoria (Woodruff) | S | |
 1951-52
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Granite City | S 1 | | Mary Blackburn Joliet (Twp.) | 2 | | LaGrange (Lyons) | S 3 | | Pekin | S 4 | | Rock Island (H.S.) | 5 | | Elgin (H.S.) | S 6 | | Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | 6 | | Champaign (H.S.) | S 8 | | DuQuoin (H.S.) | 8 | | Downers Grove (H.S.) | 10 | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | S | |
 1952-53
School Titles Pl W L T Coach LaGrange (Lyons) | 1 | | Champaign (H.S.) | D S 2 | | Rock Island (H.S.) | D S 3 | | Harrisburg | 4 | | Urbana (H.S.) | 5 | | Granite City | D S 6 | | Mary Blackburn Monticello | 6 | | Peoria (Woodruff) | 8 | | Winnetka (New Trier) | 8 | | Tolono (Unity) | 10 | | Aurora (West) | S | | Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | D S | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | S | | Rockford (East) | D S | | Athens | D | | Bloomington (H.S.) | D | | Carbondale (University) | D | | Evanston (Twp.) | D | | Freeport (H.S.) | D | | Geneseo (Darnall) | D | | Mendon (Unity) | D | | Monmouth (H.S.) | D | | Ottawa (Twp.) | D | | Paxton | D | | Pekin | D | | Robinson | D | | Roodhouse | D | | Toledo (Cumberland) | D | | Virden | D | |
 1953-54
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Pekin | D 1 | | Peoria (Woodruff) | S 2 | | Freeport (H.S.) | D 3 | | Joliet (Twp.) | S 3 | | Rock Island (H.S.) | 5 | | West Frankfort (Frankfort) | 5 | | Waukegan (H.S.) | S 7 | | DeKalb | 7 | | Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | D S 9 | | Granite City | D S 9 | | Mary Blackburn Ottawa (Twp.) | 9 | | Champaign (H.S.) | D S | | Lincoln | S | | Byron | D | | Charleston (Eastern) | D | | Clifton (Central) | D | | Geneseo (Darnall) | D | | Hinckley | D | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | D | | Kankakee (Sr.) | D | | LaHarpe | D | | Macomb (Western) | D | | Mason City | D | | Metropolis | D | | Mt. Sterling (Brown County) | D | | Normal (Community) | D | | Paxton | D | | Princeton | D | | Robinson | D | | Urbana (H.S.) | D | |
 1954-55
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Granite City | D S 1 | | Mary Blackburn Elgin (H.S.) | 2 | | Rockford (East) | 3 | | Champaign (H.S.) | D S 4 | | Rock Island (H.S.) | D 5 | | Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | D 6 | | Joliet (Twp.) | D S 7 | | Pekin | D 7 | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | 7 | | Freeport (H.S.) | D S 10 | | Peoria (Woodruff) | D S | | Virden | D S | | Bradley (B.-Bourbonnais) | D | | Carbondale (University) | D | | DeKalb | D | | DuQuoin (H.S.) | D | | Galesburg (H.S.) | D | | Lincoln | D | | Monmouth (H.S.) | D | | Normal (Community) | D | | Ottawa (Twp.) | D | | Paris | D | | Paxton | D | | Robinson | D | | Rock Falls | D | | Roodhouse | D | | Rushville | D | | Waukegan (H.S.) | D | | West Frankfort (Frankfort) | D | |
 1955-56
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Freeport (H.S.) | D S 1 | | Peoria (Woodruff) | 2 | | Rock Island (H.S.) | D S 3 | | DuQuoin (H.S.) | D S 4 | | Urbana (H.S.) | D 5 | | Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | D 6 | | Winnetka (New Trier) | 6 | | Streator (Twp.) | S 8 | | East Moline (United) | 8 | | East Peoria | 8 | | Elgin (H.S.) | 8 | | Lincoln | D S | | Mattoon | S | | Arlington Heights (Arlington) | D | | Byron | D | | Effingham (H.S.) | D | | Granite City | D | | Mary Blackburn Hamilton | D | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | D | | Joliet (Twp.) | D | | Kankakee (Sr.) | D | | Macomb | D | | Monmouth (H.S.) | D | | Normal (University) | D | | Ottawa (Twp.) | D | | Paris | D | | Pekin | D | | Staunton | D | | Sterling (H.S.) | D | |
 1956-57
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Joliet (Twp.) | D 1 | | Pekin | D S 2 | | Arlington Heights (Arlington) | D 3 | | LaGrange (Lyons) | 3 | | Rock Island (H.S.) | D 3 | | Northbrook (Glenbrook) | 6 | | Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | D 7 | | Freeport (H.S.) | D 7 | | Elgin (H.S.) | 7 | | Gibson City | 7 | | Mattoon | 7 | | Granite City | D S | | Mary Blackburn Jacksonville (H.S.) | D S | | Normal (University) | D S | | Rockford (East) | S | | Streator (Twp.) | D S | | Benton | D | | Clifton (Central) | D | | DeKalb | D | | Galesburg (H.S.) | D | | Macomb (Western) | D | | Paris | D | | Petersburg | D | | Pittsfield | D | | Robinson | D | | Springfield (H.S.) | D | | Sterling (H.S.) | D | | Urbana (H.S.) | D | |
 1957-58
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | D S 1 | | Evanston (Twp.) | 2 | | Pekin | D 3 | | Elgin (H.S.) | D 4 | | Urbana (H.S.) | D 4 | | Joliet (Twp.) | D 6 | | Mattoon | D 6 | | LaGrange (Lyons) | 6 | | Granite City | D S 9 | | Mary Blackburn Rock Island (H.S.) | D 9 | | Arlington Heights (Arlington) | S | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | S | | Normal (University) | D S | | Peoria (Woodruff) | D S | | Byron | D | | Clifton (Central) | D | | DuQuoin (H.S.) | D | | Effingham (H.S.) | D | | Galesburg (H.S.) | D | | Kirkwood | D | | LaHarpe | D | | Lincoln | D | | Ottawa (Twp.) | D | | Pittsfield | D | | Rock Falls | D | | Rushville | D | | Springfield (H.S.) | D | | Waukegan (H.S.) | D | |
 1958-59
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Calumet City (Thornton Fracti | D S 1 | | Arlington Heights (Arlington) | D 2 | | DuQuoin (H.S.) | D S 3 | | Elgin (H.S.) | 3 | | Joliet (Twp.) | D 3 | | Northbrook (Glenbrook) | 3 | | Freeport (H.S.) | D S 7 | | Maywood (Proviso East) | D 7 | | LaGrange (Lyons) | 7 | | Winnetka (New Trier) | 7 | | Lincoln | D S | | Normal (University) | D S | | Rock Island (H.S.) | D S | | Ashland | D | | Byron | D | | Clifton (Central) | D | | Decatur (St. Teresa) | D | | Dwight | D | | Fithian (Oakwood) | D | | Greenville | D | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | D | | Little York | D | | Macomb (Western) | D | | Oblong | D | | Pekin | D | | Princeton | D | | Waukegan (H.S.) | D | |
 1959-60
School Titles Pl W L T Coach Joliet (Twp.) | 1 | | Northbrook (Glenbrook) | 1 | | Streator (Twp.) | D 3 | | Sterling (H.S.) | D 4 | | Aurora (West) | 4 | | Rockford (West) | 4 | | Peoria (Woodruff) | S 7 | | Belleville (Twp.) | D 7 | | Arlington Heights (Arlington) | 7 | | LaGrange (Lyons) | D 10 | | Pekin | D 10 | | Berwyn-Cicero (Morton) | 10 | | DeKalb | 10 | | Elmwood Park | 10 | | Evergreen Park | 10 | | Geneseo (Darnall) | 10 | | DuQuoin (H.S.) | D S | | Freeport (H.S.) | D S | | LaHarpe | D S | | Lansing (Thornton Fractional | D S | | Normal (University) | D S | | Bradley (B.-Bourbonnais) | D | | Clifton (Central) | D | | Decatur (St. Teresa) | D | | Effingham (H.S.) | D | | Elgin (H.S.) | D | | Fithian (Oakwood) | D | | Galesburg (H.S.) | D | | Jacksonville (H.S.) | D | | Macomb (Western) | D | | Paris | D | | Princeton | D | | Rock Island (H.S.) | D | | Sycamore | D | | Taylorville | D | | Waukegan (H.S.) | D | |