Plan to Auction Championship Banners Meets Backlash

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Oliver Ames High School in Easton, Mass., has enjoyed much success in the Hockomock League since 1936. So much, in fact, that it ran out of space on the gymnasium walls to accommodate individual league championship banners. But a solution — to replace those banners with a single one for each sport that lists championships by year — has created a new problem.

With each banner in the traditional system taking up 24 square feet, most Hockomock League banners had to be stored in the Oliver Ames basement, according to a report in The Enterprise of Brockton. Athletic director Bill Matthews came up with the idea of consolidated banners, which not only would conserve wall space, but also honor dozens of teams whose respective booster groups never placed banner orders in the first place.

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