• 120,000 Witness High School Football Game in 1937!!!

  • Apr 14 2024
  • Length: 23 mins
  • Podcast

120,000 Witness High School Football Game in 1937!!!

  • Summary

  • When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

    EPISODE SUMMARY

    On this episode of “When Football Was Football,” we’ll take a break from covering professional football and journey back to 1937 for a celebration of one of Chicago’s most prominent annual sporting events: the Prep Bowl. Each year, the high school season in the city would conclude with the enormously popular clash between the champions of the Chicago Catholic League and the Chicago Public League. Things have changed over the years, of course, but for decades the Prep Bowl easily garnered one of the largest attendances of any sporting competition in the United States.

    Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here.

    WHEN FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL BACKGROUND

    Each episode takes the listener back to the very early days of the National Football League. Author Joe Ziemba will share a forgotten or lost story from one of the NFL’s two oldest teams: The Bears and the Cardinals. Team championships, individual exploits, or long-buried items of interest from the earliest years of the NFL will be dusted off and resurrected for the listener. Not for the football faint-of-heart since these programs will document when the struggling Bears nearly went out of business or when Cardinals’ players earned $15 a game and were proud of it! It’s NFL history—with a twist!. See Joe's books below.

    Cadets, Canons, and Legends: The Football History of Morgan Park Military Academy

    When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL

    Music for the episode - https://www.purple-planet.com/

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