Jim Williams started wrestling @ Anthony High School in 1966. In 1970 the school became Chaparral. He was also my wrestling coach.
Jim explains that he had a study hall with all boys in it around 1965. Most of them were "country boys", one day one of the kids asked why we didn't have a wrestling team? So, Jim told all the boys to go to the library or where ever they could to find out more about wrestling and they would make it a class project. Most were not out for a sport after school as they did chores. So, during class time after they came up with the general idea of how to, they "practiced" in the gym during classtime using the old cottony type of wall mats behind the basketball goals. Well all the boys took to it and kinda liked the rough play, so he later went to the school board and told of the experiance and they went for it, as the Superintendant at the time "knew of no other activity that teaches a student so much about life".
He talked his brother Bill into coaching the Harper kids a year later, as we were the same school district back then also.
Jim Coached through 1980 season when he became the Principal @ Harper grade school.
During his tenure he produced 1 State Champion and 10 state medalists.
Long time Andale Coach and Official: Bill Scheffler told me stories of when he coached in the old Anthony Municipal Hall were some of the wildest experiances of his career.