The reorganization involved the main Maryville school along with 22 rural districts that had one-room schoolhouses.

Maryville High School football games were played initially by the school at First and Vine, from 1953 to 1962 were played at the football field at Beal Park east of the municipal swimming pool (now the Aquatics Center) and then mostly at Bearcat Stadium from 1963 to 1975 on the college campus.

In late 1976 the high school began playing its football games in a stadium on its own campus which has been nicknamed the "Hound Pound".

It has gained national recognition in its past years, including appearing on the Today Show before marching in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1990.

The headline of its advertisement in American Legion Magazine said, "Meet the Spoof-Hound, the ugliest critter in existence."

The text said, "You buddies coming to Kansas City are going to meet the onliest looking Son-of-A-Gun that ever came down a Company street.

"[42] Laingor was a University of Missouri Journalism School student and said he had originally used the name to describe his coffee club.

Leslie Edward Ziegeler (1894-1957), who coached high school team said his players looked like a bunch of Spoofhounds.

The name stuck and as the 1923 football season began the team was called the Spoofhound by the Maryville Daily Forum.

[45] In 1977 the "Hi Lights" the high school publication which appeared weekly in the Forum ran a contest entitled, "Spoofy - Does he have a face?"