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Calvert Hall, Loyola Blakefield football thankful for return of Turkey Bowl after end of 100-year...
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Calvert Hall, Loyola Blakefield football thankful for return of Turkey Bowl after end of 100-year streak
By RICH SCHERR
BALTIMORE SUN | NOV 24, 2021 AT 6:00 AM
Calvert Hall senior Tim Downs vividly remembers the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving 2020, when football coach Josh Ward gathered his team in a lecture hall before its scheduled practice and delivered the news that nobody wanted to hear.
The Turkey Bowl — a game that had survived the Great Depression, two World Wars and taken place for 100 consecutive years — would be canceled amid the raging coronavirus pandemic and a Baltimore County executive order restricting the size of outdoor gatherings.
“We were all crushed,” recalls Downs. “We were so upset and mad that we couldn’t play … especially some of my friends who were seniors. It was really a lot of emotion.”
A little more than one year later, the tradition is set to resume at 10 a.m. Thursday when No. 2 Calvert Hall takes on Loyola Blakefield in the 101st edition of the venerable series at Towson University’s Johnny Unitas Stadium.
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Calvert Hall, Loyola Blakefield football thankful for return of Turkey Bowl after end of 100-year streak
By RICH SCHERR
BALTIMORE SUN | NOV 24, 2021 AT 6:00 AM
Calvert Hall senior Tim Downs vividly remembers the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving 2020, when football coach Josh Ward gathered his team in a lecture hall before its scheduled practice and delivered the news that nobody wanted to hear.
The Turkey Bowl — a game that had survived the Great Depression, two World Wars and taken place for 100 consecutive years — would be canceled amid the raging coronavirus pandemic and a Baltimore County executive order restricting the size of outdoor gatherings.
“We were all crushed,” recalls Downs. “We were so upset and mad that we couldn’t play … especially some of my friends who were seniors. It was really a lot of emotion.”
A little more than one year later, the tradition is set to resume at 10 a.m. Thursday when No. 2 Calvert Hall takes on Loyola Blakefield in the 101st edition of the venerable series at Towson University’s Johnny Unitas Stadium.
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