Football: October 2011 Archives

The Public League football pairings are out. These are the Week 9 games for the top four teams in each Illini section and also serve as the first round of qualifying for the Public League's berth in the Prep Bowl at Soldier Field on Thanksgiving weekend.

Here they are:

Thursday's games
Orr vs. Fenger at Gately, 3:30
Young vs. Morgan Park at Stagg, 3:30
Carver vs. Simeon at Gately, 7
Robeson vs. Julian at Lane, 7

Friday's games
Harlan vs. Harper at Gately, 3:30
Collins vs. Dunbar at Lane, 3:30
King vs. Brooks at Eckersall, 3:30
Curie vs. Hubbard at Lane, 7

Mooseheart's Gary Urwiler and Montini's John Rhode have been named the Bears High School Coach and Player of the Week, respectively, for Week 7.

Urwiler has one of the area's feel-good stories of the season. The Red Ramblers, one of the few local Class 1A teams, are 7-0 and headed back to the IHSA playoffs after a 23-14 win over Longwood last week in a battle of Northeastern Athletic Conference unbeatens. That Mooseheart even has a football team, given its small enrollment, is impressive. But Urwiler's clearly doing something right, with 52 of the school's 65 boys in the football program.

Rhode is making up for lost time after missing the first five weeks of the season with a thumb injury suffered in the Broncos' preseason scrimmage. He already has 11 touchdown passes: three vs. St. Francis in his season debut in Week 6 and eight more - one shy of the state record - in last weekend's 59-14 win over St. Edward.