Archive | September 11, 2011

The toughest opponent

By on September 11, 2011 in Game Stories, The Varsity

SLUH has, without question, one of the toughest prep schedules in the area. Among the opponents on the 10-game regular-season schedule are DeSmet, defending state champion Webster Groves and CBC — ranked No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, in last week’s St. Louis Post Dispatch prep football poll. And last weekend, hands-down, the season’s […]

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Cerulean SLUH

By on September 11, 2011 in Game Stories, General

The history teacher — in his 27th year at the Jesuit prep school on Oakland Ave. — doesn’t remember the exact year it began. “Probably about 12, 15 years ago,” Tom McCarthy says. “Students used to paint themselves blue and literally run down Oakland Ave. to the old CBC High School on Clayton — a […]

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