Tennis was the first new sport the Conference added beyond football, basketball, and track. The inaugural state meet was played on the University of Colorado courts in mid-May 1927. Contemporary coverage is clear about what was at stake: trophies for the singles and doubles champions — not a combined school team title.
Trophies will be awarded the singles and doubles champions.
The May 15 Rocky Mountain News wrap confirms the split: Pueblo Central and Greeley “annexed the state doubles and singles titles.” Darnell beat Carl Bennewitz of Longmont in the singles final after dropping the opening set. James Evans and Pat Lehan of Greeley beat Eastman and Estes of Longmont in doubles, with a rain delay forcing a second-set replay.
Later champions lists sometimes collapse that weekend into a single “Pueblo Central” school championship. The newspapers of the day did not. Like the early girls tennis meets of the 1970s, the first boys state tennis event was an individual culminating tournament.