State football titles were part of the Colorado High School Athletic Conference's mission from the start — including the first sanctioned championship week of 1921 — but the format for crowning a football champion kept evolving through the 1930s.
In March 1937, papers carried an Associated Press report that the grid title game itself was on the chopping block. Willard N. Greim, Denver athletic director and conference vice president, said there was “a growing sentiment to abolish the playoff system,” and Northern Colorado officials urged the board of control to junk it the next season:
“Grid Title Game To Be Abandoned”
A year later, the Rocky Mountain News carried the opposite turn: the Northern Colorado High School Athletic Conference voted in Loveland to keep the present playoff system for determining the state football champion — by a reported margin of a single ballot.
“Prep Football Playoff O. K.'d By Conference”
Read together, the two clippings capture a live debate inside Colorado prep football: whether a championship playoff best served the state league. That argument sits on the long road from 1921 to the multi-classification brackets CHSAA runs today.