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Cloquet wins District Championship
This photo of the 1968-69 Cloquet boys hockey team was taken in the locker room after they won the district championship - the first time any team outside Duluth claimed the crown. This photo appeared in the CHS yearbook that year.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Take, for instance, the 1968-69 Lumberjack hockey team.
Enthusiastic fans cram a cold ice arena, a young team of Lumberjacks battle all season to play for a championship title, an unguarded net seals a victory, a championship title is earned, stories begin, memories are made, and history is set. We start at the beginning ...
By 1968, the Cloquet Lumberjacks (later the Cloquet-Esko-Carlton squad) were still a young hockey program with big hopes, meager resources and lots of grit. In the late 1960s, basketball was "king" in the area, and hocke...
