Pueblo Football Rivalry: The Pueblo Football Bell Games

OUR PITCH

The High School football rivalry is one of the most significant events the city of Pueblo has. It all began in 1892 and is the longest going rivalry west of the Mississippi river. Selling out seats every year the game is a piece of culture, it is what brings the community of Pueblo together because at the end of the day the game is for the young athletes who play it and it. Some will go as far to say that it means more than winning a state championship. For our group this means something else. By being able to create a Scalar we will be able to give newcomers to the rivalry information on the details of the game, why it is important, and what it means to people in the town. The first and most important thing for us to do is collect information on the High school rivalry. This begins with reaching out to the high schools to go inside their personal museums. It also means looking around the community for information such as the Pueblo Chieftain, Rawling’s Library, and even the El Pueblo History Museum. The high schools have a large collection of memorabilia each and offer photos, articles and trophies cataloguing their sports history. The High schools also have individual pieces for hall of fame members like Earl Clark and David Packard. The Pueblo Chieftain is a local newspaper who has a small collection of news articles as well as a collection from the Bell game. This will be most useful when collecting information on the recent football games. The Rawling’s library has a slightly different collection that has broader focus on the high schools in general. This provides our group with knowledge of the background of what triggered the rivalry how far it reaches into other sports, and what does the bell symbolize? The El Pueblo History Museum had an exhibit on the Bell Game so reaching out to them will allow us to track the pieces from the exhibit, It will also allow us to come up with a general layout for our Scalar page as it may be best to model it similarly to the exhibit.After the research is done would need to begin scanning photos and taking pictures of the physical memorabilia. Of course, this relies on the consent of the museums. The two high schools and Rawling’s library are ok with this as we have asked them already when we began research. With these scans and photos, we will put them on our blogs and of course our Scalar. We want the Scalar to be as visually pleasing as possible because this project means a great deal to the community. We would like the website to be easy to work with and easy to navigate. This means quick links, slide shows, and graphs depicting timelines and win/loss ratios. Once this part of the Scalar is up and running, we would like to add interviews with players, fans, and community members. This would allow the community to reminisce on the games they witnessed and the stories they have. This is important as it establishes credibility for the project. It also lets our audience see how important the game was to these people.In order to organize our research days, we have created a schedule based off the days that we have free from class. Beginning on February 14th, we will spend the day looking at articles and gathering information on the internet. February 21st we will begin looking at the chieftain and the El Pueblo Museum. February 28th we will return to Centennial High School to scan and photograph. March 7th we will go to Central High School and do the same thing. During Spring Break, we will begin the finishing touches on our Scalar. We will apply our scans and photographs to the Scalar as we do our research, using Spring Break as a buffer zone to add extra content and edit our findings.