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 […]
Regarding Henry
Henry Jones played 12 seasons as a safety in the NFL, 10 with the Buffalo Bills. He was All-Pro in 1992 and appeared in three consecutive Super Bowls. In his career as a safety, he made 18 interceptions, four of which resulted in touchdowns. He once made a key interception of Joe Montana in a […]
Blink, and you’ll miss it
Freshmen football is a rollercoaster ride, up one minute and down the next. The SLUH freshmen are on the downswing, suffering another big loss at the hands of the CBC Cadets. 42-7 was the final score, and even I got that wrong. Besides updating the game on the Twitter feed, I was doing a pretty […]
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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