Foot after foot of microfilm spun off one reel and wound onto another reel. Old newspaper pages scrolled across a computer screen while my index finger held down the computer mouse button until I found the first week of March 1941. I slowed the reels and scanned for mentions of the Rolling Prairie Bulldogs. Five days of newspapers were missing, but the sixth day revealed a valuable image—a group of boys standing next to a sedan with its door held open. The caption read, “Coach Cleo Isom’s Rolling Prairie Bulldogs, LaPorte county sectional winners, are show above embarking for Gary where they met Rensselaer’s Bombers in the opening game of Gary’s regional tourney in Memorial auditorium this afternoon.”
