I found a few things about the Ridgeway High School football team. The earliest news items that I found was from 1907 where Ridgeway beat Bethany 5-0 (St. Joseph News-Press, Oct 28, 1907) and suffered their first loss of the season to the Athletic Club of Grant City 5-0 (St. Joseph News-Press, Nov 30, 1907).
The most interesting game, though, was the “Football Circus” played in Albany at the start of the 1947 season. Similar to the Basketball Carnival played the previous December, all nine teams in the Grand River Conference played. They were divided into North (N) and South (S) groups, and they each played for one quarter with five quarters in the game. Grant City (N) played Stanberry (S) for the first quarter, Bethany (N) played the second quarter against King City (S), Ridgeway (N) played Maysville (S) in the third, Princeton (N) and Albany (S) battled it out in the fourth quarter and Gallatin (S) played against a team made up of Bethany and Grant City players for the fifth quarter. (Albany Ledger, Sep 11, 1947)
The purpose of the game was to give all the teams a little extra income and allow the coaches a chance to see their competition in action. The South team won the game 13-0. An estimated 2000 spectators watched the game and nearly 300 athletes played. (Tri-County News, Sep 19, 1947)
