I have no idea how the high school football thing shook out. Marshfield’s attendance waned, so Sheldon was probably a bigger market. Pete Susick was a hard act to follow. I didn’t know he’d played for the Packers. Chet Haliski had been drafted by the Rams, I believe, but the attack on Pearl Harbor caused him to go into the military, instead.
Read John Gunther’s Obit of him (John amd I were good friends in high school)-—he was drafted by the Packers, but also went to war instead—and was sent home after being wounded. His wound ruled out the NFL so he ended up coaching at Marshfield instead—odd to have the stadium named after a NB grad who, it turns out, remained geographically close to his roots.