1972 Illinois Game

[johnny d]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I remember when one of the teams in the video (Thornridge) was built in 1960 in Dolton, IL. Although it wasn't in my schools conference, it was still fairly close to us (Bloom HS in Chicago Heights). We played some games with them in the sixties and I think I remember attending one of the games. We won that game by a rather large difference. I guess we probably still played some games with them after the sixties but I was out of HS and didn't keep up.

Thornridge had a reputation for being a very nice school.

Perhaps when it opened. It is a cesspool now.