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In the early years, the players consisted of working boys because most boys did not attend high school. By 1904 more boys began attending school past 8th grade. 1909 was Massillon's first undefeated football team. From 1910 to 1920 high school football in Massillon grew and improved, and by 1916 they were named the Scholastic Champions of Ohio ...
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The Cook County High School League in Chicago and its suburbs was one of the pioneer interscholastic leagues in the country. It came together during 1889–1890, conducting its first track and field meet in the spring of 1889, its first football championship in the fall of 1889, and its first baseball championship in the spring of 1890.
It was the premier high school football event in Illinois until the IHSA formed the state championship football playoffs in 1974. The 1927 game between Mt. Carmel and Carl Schurz High School drew an estimated 50,000 fans; the largest crowd to see a prep football contest in American history up to that time. [1]
In 1907 at Champaign, Illinois Chicago and Illinois played in the first game to have a halftime show featuring a marching band. [97] Chicago won 42–6. On November 25, 1911 Kansas and Missouri played the first homecoming football game. [98] The game was "broadcast" play-by-play over telegraph to at least 1,000 fans in Lawrence, Kansas. [99]
The first organized intercollegiate football game in Illinois played by teams from the state occurred November 11, 1882, when Lake Forest defeated Northwestern 1–0 on the Campus Meadow in Evanston. [21] MI November 1, 1879 Michigan: Toronto: Recreation Park, Detroit, Michigan: 0–0 First organized intercollegiate football game in Michigan ...
Chicago Athletic Association building, prior to its renovation. The Chicago Athletic Association was a men's club and American football team, based in Chicago, Illinois. The club itself had been organized in 1890, and in 1892 it formed a football team. The team was built around veterans of Chicago's University Club football team. The team ...
The last remaining bastion of the Suburban League started joining these other leagues, and finally folded after the 1974–1975 school year. As of the end of the 2007–08 school year, the past and present schools of the CSL have won 233 state titles in various IHSA sports and activities. They have finished in second place 261 times.