in 1944. The program's most famous alumnus was the actor George Peppard (class of 1946). Since 1994, the program has been honored with 10 consecutive nominations (2000–2010) to perform at the annual American High School Theater Festival as well as to the prestigious International Thespian Festival and has produced numerous State of Michigan Thespian Festival Competition Medalists. Sports Dearborn High School is currently a member of the Kensington Lakes Activities Association. In school history, the Pioneers and Lady Pioneers have won a combined 11 state championships in 5 different sports with six of them coming in boys' swimming. In addition, they have won numerous conference, district, and state regional titles in every sport. The school colors are orange and black; the Pioneer mascot is dressed as a mid-19th century frontiersman, wearing a coonskin hat with a brown leather jacket, pants, and boots with leather fringe. At one point, the mascot carried a 19th-century hunting rifle but that was ended by the administration in the late 1990s. Their previous football field was nicknamed "The Boneyard". The Pioneers' biggest rivals are the Tractors from Dearborn's Fordson High School and the Thunderbirds of Dearborn's Edsel Ford . According to T. C. Cameron, author of Metro Detroit's High School Football Rivalries, the rivalry with Edsel Ford High "has always been spirited" and that Ford's teams "never pass on a chance" to challenge Dearborn High in games. In regards to the one with Fordson, he stated the games have been "scrubbed for years at a time" and that the rivalry was "love-to-hate". The rivalry was affected by the 2006 job change of Jeff Stergalas, previously the head coach at Fordson, into being an assistant coach at Dearborn High School. In 2015 both schools held food drives to coincide with the Dearborn–Ford football game. Fall sports Boys' football 1995 team ranked 3 in the state undefeated and unscored upon MHSAA state record 10 consecutive shut-outs 2010 team undefeated 9–0 season Girls' swimming Boys' soccer Coed cross country Boys' tennis Girls' golf Girls' field hockey Girls' cheerleading Girls' volleyball Winter sports Boys' basketball Class A state runners-up 1947 Girls' basketball Boys' swimming State class A champions 1971, 72, 74, 76 State class B champions 1986, 87 Boys' wrestling Boys' hockey Girls' cheerleading Coed bowling Boys' state runner-up 2015 Spring sports Boys' baseball Girls' softball Girls' tennis Class A state champions 1974 Coed track and field Class B