New Ulm Sports Central - Preserving and Sharing New Ulm Area Sports History

Already well preserved, the former 212 High School Athletic conference's rich sports history is getting a preservation boost. A treasure trove of photos and other images from the archives of New Ulm Sports Central are being added to the conference's history site.

The present site administered by former coach Tyrone Wacker is also available for viewing on New Ulm Sports Central by this link.

Over 100 images from the early 1950's to the 1970's have been preserved by NUSC and are being copied to the 212 site in a project underway.

Wacker and Armand Peterson, his brother-in-law, visited with NUSC to search through a massive file of sports photos and other images to locate original photographic negatives which reported the conference's early history. Many of those images were never published and will be new history elements as selected.

For the most part the photos were taken by Herb Schaper and Don Brand, sports editors of the Journal during that period and some by photography Ron Grieser. They are part of the collection of 25-years of photographs being processed into permanent history by New Ulm Sports Central. NUSC is powered by Community Research Technology.

An offshoot of the project is also making available sports photos from Gibbon, Fairfax and Winthrop for work being done by Wade Werner of GFW Schools and could be offered to other area schools.

While NUSC is currently concentrating on the teams involved in the area of the New Ulm public school district, it is also prepared to include activities from a much larger area as conditions present themselves.

Reprints of quality reproductions will eventually be made available through the websites.

For more information of NUSC, contact Herb Schaper at nusc@newulmtel.net or phone Herb at 507-276-1774.

The negatives were saved during the time when it was the policy of the New Ulm Journal to preserve the material with an indexing system which varied from full detail to simply unidentified negative envelope files. Wacker's knowledge of the 212 has enabled considerably new identification of material and is in the process of being added to the NUSC archives.