FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[AndOne]

The football field at Glenbard West sits behind the school between Honeysuckle Hill upon which West is built, and Lake Ellyn which is immediately behind the visitors side stands.
The school and football field were featured predominately in the movie 'Lucas.'
The football field itself is named Duchon Field, and was listed by USA Today as one of the top 10 locations in the USA to watch a high school football game.

[Comet 14]

I am not sure of the time but I think I remember it not being to soon before when I was there because I remember hearing alot about the name change. Of course after college many of those brain cells are no longer with me

[79jaybird]

FYI, The Elmhurst vs North Park game can be heard online at http://www.wrse.com  or via conventional (local) radio on 88.7FM.

[fightintitan]

I think this is the Dragon logo everyone is referring to at Pekin


I believe the tried to get rid of the Chink nickname around '74-'75, but it was voted down by the students and then it was changed for good in '81.

Also, have a look below at two students that were voted "Chink" and "Chinklette" of their class and a page from the student handbook.  Click on them for full size.

[matblake]

No school in the CCIW has a funnier former nickname than the one with which Illinois Wesleyan was burdened back during the Depression. I'll let the Titans fans share it with you rather than divulging it myself.

I'm not a Titan fan, but I couldn't resist.  Illinois Wesleyan Boy Beauties!  However, Wheaton could have been the Cherubs when the school changed the mascot from Crusaders, so this is the last I will speak on the subject.  

Ha!  That's funny.  I was curious and hunted online for the answer to that one last night but was unsuccesful.  Where'd you find that?  Or was it just something you already knew?

I got it from Sager himself.  I remembered this discussion from roughly a couple of years ago.  See the post below from early 2007.

The idea of the Wheaton Cherubs facing the Illinois Wesleyan Boy Beauties or the Elmhurst Goldenrods on the field of play is just so ... precious.

[Tailgater]

redman04---

Good stuff re the various colorful nicknames.
Here are a few more---

My old high school, Glenbard West in Glen Ellyn, is known as the Hilltoppers----because
  the school is built in the style of a castle on top of a large hill in downtown Glen Ellyn.

In Minnesota---The Univ of St. Thomas Tommies

In college at Nebraska Wesleyan, I had a couple of friends from NE high schools with unusual names:

Cozad Haymakers
Minden Whippets----This one always struck me as one of the strangest. For those of you who don't know, a whippet is another name for a greyhound dog. My buddy said they always felt a certain stigma that could be associated with the word "whippet" and their opponents seldom passed on the opportunity to point out that fact.     

AndOne:
I too am a Glendbard West Grad (The Bicentennial Class of 1976). We referred to the school as "The Dump on the Hump". Did you happen to see the recent photos of the flooding after the downpour of Rain last month? Lake Ellyn completely covered the football field. A few years back the Football Gazette rated Glenbard West as the second most beautiful place in the Country to watch a football game. I think you and I can agree on that.

[Tailgater]

The football field at Glenbard West sits behind the school between Honeysuckle Hill upon which West is built, and Lake Ellyn which is immediately behind the visitors side stands.
The school and football field were featured predominately in the movie 'Lucas.'
The football field itself is named Duchon Field, and was listed by USA Today as one of the top 10 locations in the USA to watch a high school football game.

Duchon was my Coach. He is a legend in G.E. His daughter is a beautiful lady who I saw last year at a 30 year Reunion. Everyone feared dating her because.............

[Carthage Fan]

redman04---

Good stuff re the various colorful nicknames.
Here are a few more---

My old high school, Glenbard West in Glen Ellyn, is known as the Hilltoppers----because
  the school is built in the style of a castle on top of a large hill in downtown Glen Ellyn.

In Minnesota---The Univ of St. Thomas Tommies

In college at Nebraska Wesleyan, I had a couple of friends from NE high schools with unusual names:

Cozad Haymakers
Minden Whippets----This one always struck me as one of the strangest. For those of you who don't know, a whippet is another name for a greyhound dog. My buddy said they always felt a certain stigma that could be associated with the word "whippet" and their opponents seldom passed on the opportunity to point out that fact.     

AndOne:
I too am a Glendbard West Grad (The Bicentennial Class of 1976). We referred to the school as "The Dump on the Hump". Did you happen to see the recent photos of the flooding after the downpour of Rain last month? Lake Ellyn completely covered the football field. A few years back the Football Gazette rated Glenbard West as the second most beautiful place in the Country to watch a football game. I think you and I can agree on that.

Tailgater, you're younger than me?   Who'd a thunk it?  HA!  Well come to think of it I don't see much gray hair on ya!   

[Carthage Fan]

The football field at Glenbard West sits behind the school between Honeysuckle Hill upon which West is built, and Lake Ellyn which is immediately behind the visitors side stands.
The school and football field were featured predominately in the movie 'Lucas.'
The football field itself is named Duchon Field, and was listed by USA Today as one of the top 10 locations in the USA to watch a high school football game.

Trivia Time!

I was in Johnstown, PA last week,  a city that is famous for the horrific flood of 1889.  Did you know that 2 sports themed movies were filmed there?  Name the movies. 

[AndOne]

Trivia Time answers---

1. Slap Shot
2. All The Right Moves

What do I win?  LOL!

[Carthage Fan]

Trivia Time answers---

1. Slap Shot
2. All The Right Moves

What do I win?  LOL!

CORRECT...If I could give you +K I would. 

[AndOne]

redman04---

Good stuff re the various colorful nicknames.
Here are a few more---

My old high school, Glenbard West in Glen Ellyn, is known as the Hilltoppers----because
  the school is built in the style of a castle on top of a large hill in downtown Glen Ellyn.

In Minnesota---The Univ of St. Thomas Tommies

In college at Nebraska Wesleyan, I had a couple of friends from NE high schools with unusual names:

Cozad Haymakers
Minden Whippets----This one always struck me as one of the strangest. For those of you who don't know, a whippet is another name for a greyhound dog. My buddy said they always felt a certain stigma that could be associated with the word "whippet" and their opponents seldom passed on the opportunity to point out that fact.     

AndOne:
I too am a Glendbard West Grad (The Bicentennial Class of 1976). We referred to the school as "The Dump on the Hump". Did you happen to see the recent photos of the flooding after the downpour of Rain last month? Lake Ellyn completely covered the football field. A few years back the Football Gazette rated Glenbard West as the second most beautiful place in the Country to watch a football game. I think you and I can agree on that.

Tail---

I think everyone calls GW "the dump on the hump" when they're in school there. You don't really appreciate the place until after you're out.

No, I didn't see the photos of flooded Lake Ellyn covering the field, but its easy to understand give the lake is so close to the field. I remember we were practicing punt returns one day between the visitors stands and the lake. The returner was running west right next to the lake when a would be tackler launched himself through the air from the returner's left. Seeing the flying body out of the corner of his eye at the last instant, the ball carrier stopped quickly as the tackler flew by just in front of him and landed in the lake on the fly!!
A beautiful place to watch a game for sure.

Duchon was also my coach--a few years before you. He did strike fear into his players. The phrase "if looks could kill" was a very accurate description if you screwed up on a play. Of course, this was also during an era when a coach could grab you by the face mask and shake your head almost off and get away with it, so the "look" was actually the favored form of criticism.

[AndOne]

Trivia Time answers---

1. Slap Shot
2. All The Right Moves

What do I win?  LOL!

Thanks Carthage Fan. Stop by again when u hit 200.     


CORRECT...If I could give you +K I would. 

[Gregory Sager]

some of the stranger IHSA nicknames
Elk Grove  Grenadiers  (guy who threw grenades in the war)

No, grenadiers were actually the elite soldiers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries in Europe, sort of the Green Berets or paratroopers of their day. The biggest and toughest men from each regiment were set aside and formed into their own grenadier regiments. The grenadiers were typically the ones called upon to do the dirty work (e.g., first to storm the walls of an enemy fort, or leading the first wave of an infantry charge), and they're the ones who wore the big beaver or bearskin hats that we associate today with the guards at Buckingham Palace; those hats were designed to make the grenadiers look even taller than they already were. Several European nations still have grenadier regiments.

They got their name from the fact that they were usually able to throw grenades farther than anyone else in the line regiments, but they didn't really focus upon grenade-throwing. The name is therefore something of a misnomer.

[Gregory Sager]

redman04---

Good stuff re the various colorful nicknames.
Here are a few more---

My old high school, Glenbard West in Glen Ellyn, is known as the Hilltoppers----because
  the school is built in the style of a castle on top of a large hill in downtown Glen Ellyn.

In Minnesota---The Univ of St. Thomas Tommies

That's not particularly colorful. In fact, the MIAC has a whole slew of self-referential nicknames:

St. Thomas Tommies
St. John's Johnnies
St. Olaf Oles
Augsburg Auggies
Gustavus Adolphus Gusties