I started at Brooklyn Tech when I was 14. That was in 1956. Little did I know that an annual Thanksgiving tradition was the Thursday morning football game between Boys High, were my father went and Brooklyn Tech.
Boys High Field, far, far, far away from the school but near to where we first lived in Brooklyn (853 Empire Blvd) was convenient for us and what a wonderful thing to do: my father, my brother and me - a family Thanksgiving morning football rivalry. Then my Uncle Max, who 32 years earlier, under the same coach (Wally Muller) who still coached Boys High, was a city star, got wind of it and asked if he and his three sons can join us - that afternoon, we'd all go to their house in Forest Hills for Thanksgiving dinner.
Thus began a three year tradition - the mornings found 7 of us (6 of us in the stands, Uncle Max participating by walking with the 10 yard chain along the sidelines). Do these two schools - no longer all male - still meet for Thanksgiving morning football? What changes have transpired in NYC during the past 55 years?
Boys High Field, far, far, far away from the school but near to where we first lived in Brooklyn (853 Empire Blvd) was convenient for us and what a wonderful thing to do: my father, my brother and me - a family Thanksgiving morning football rivalry. Then my Uncle Max, who 32 years earlier, under the same coach (Wally Muller) who still coached Boys High, was a city star, got wind of it and asked if he and his three sons can join us - that afternoon, we'd all go to their house in Forest Hills for Thanksgiving dinner.
Thus began a three year tradition - the mornings found 7 of us (6 of us in the stands, Uncle Max participating by walking with the 10 yard chain along the sidelines). Do these two schools - no longer all male - still meet for Thanksgiving morning football? What changes have transpired in NYC during the past 55 years?
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