Watching a freshman football game is like trying to keep track of fish in an aquarium. For five games now this season, I’ve watched the players run up, down, backward, forward, hither and yon on a 120 x 531/3 square-yard piece of grass, thrilled when they made a play and wondering why I kept forgetting […]
My 15
We are in a stretch of five games in nine days, two varsity and three freshmen games — including a designated “D” game that found us at CBC yet again Sept. 19, looking west into a late-summer setting sun. So that’s why I didn’t see The Fumble Recovery (right). Yeah, let’s blame it on the […]
Writing The Season
Seventeen years at The Sporting News, a national weekly sports magazine, should have prepared me for one year of covering HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL. But while the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern taught me the intracacies of story development, nothing I learned there prepared me for feeding, clothing and watering a 190-pound defensive end and a 130-pound wide receiver. So I'm writing about it -- and tweeting everything from how to stay awake when the spin cycle begins at midnight to watching your sons run onto a field on a golden, crisp fall evening.
The Game Plan
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Forever
SLUH vs. Life
Graduation, college, jobs, marriage family. Lessons learned on a football field will stay with these young men always.
SLUH VARSITY (9-4 Final Record)
Aug. 26 Parkway North 38, SLUH 35
Sept. 2, SLUH 49, Ladue 27
Sept. 9, Webster Groves 49, SLUH 28
Sept. 16, CBC 34, SLUH 7
Sept. 23, SLUH 48, Vianney 0
Sept. 30, SLUH 35, Chaminade 28
Oct. 7, SLUH 38, Eureka 14
Oct. 14, SLUH 38, Mehlville 0
Oct. 21, SLUH 37, DeSmet 31
Oct. 28, SLUH 35, Lindbergh 21
Nov. 4, SLUH 57, Oakville 27
Nov. 11, SLUH 47, DeSmet 46
Nov. 18, CBC 66, SLUH 28
SLUH FRESHMEN (4-5 Final Record)
Aug. 26, SLUH 27, MICDS 6
Aug. 31, Webster Groves 42, SLUH 0
Sept. 15, CBC 42, SLUH 7
Sept. 19, CBC 20, SLUH 7 (D)
Sept. 22, SLUH 20, Vianney 14
Sept. 29, SLUH 28, Chaminade 7
Oct. 4, SLUH 35, Normandy 26
Oct. 11, DeSmet 30, SLUH 16
Oct. 20, Hazelwood West 21, SLUH 18
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