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The advent of the state high school football playoffs further contributed to the decline in interest in the Prep Bowl. [10] In 1979, the Prep Bowl was retooled. Before this, it was a standalone game that pitted the champion of the Chicago Catholic League against the champion of the Chicago Public League. The retooled Prep Bowl game became the ...
The game would be later dubbed the Chicago Prep Bowl in 1934 by Mayor Edward Kelly as a Thanksgiving fundraiser for the city's poor. Until the advent of the Illinois state playoffs in 1974, the Prep Bowl was the main attraction of the fall season, attracting crowds in upwards of 100,000 in its heyday and averaging close to 65,000.
The Prep Bowl is an annual contest played between the Chicago Catholic League and the Chicago Public League and was long for most of its history played at Chicago's Soldier Field. It was first played in 1927, though after a forfeit in 1928, was not played again until 1933, and was the premier high school football event in Illinois until the ...
Here is the complete schedule and brackets for the 2023 Illinois High School Association high school football playoffs announced Saturday, Oct. 21. IHSA football playoffs bracket 2023: Teams ...
IHSA football 2023: Complete playoffs bracket with pairings, schedule, game times. Friday, November 24. ... Chicago 2 WMEU The U 48.1. Decatur WCIX MyNet 49.1. Harrisburg WDKA MyNet 49.1/23.2.
Two coaches faced the same remember-it-forever moment in the Prep Bowl, the same decision: Go with one play that would either win or lose the state championship, or play it safe to extend the game.
Fenwick's football team playing in the Prep Bowl at Soldier Field. Prior to the institution of a state playoff system for football in the 1970s, Fenwick competed to play in the Prep Bowl, which pitted the champions of the CCL against the champion of the Chicago Public League. Fenwick won two Prep Bowl titles at the game's usual home of Soldier ...
Last year, Kenwood stymied Whitney Young in a thriller to claim the Chicago Public League championship. Twice in 2024, Young outlasted Kenwood by a point. On Saturday, Whitney Young left the drama ...