The HS Uniforms thread inspired me....

[mike412]

Yes - that is where Dick Groat went to school.

I think Dick Groat went to Edgewood HS. It and Swissvale now are part of Woodland Hills, along with Churchill, Braddock, North Braddock Scott, Rankin and Turtle Creek.

I remember the first of what would later become an avalanche of mergers: Keystone Oaks replaced Dormont, Castle Shannon and Greentree. The name came from the key to the door, the stone from the castle and the oak from the tree.

Wilkinsburg still exists. In the City League, there are so many gone I can’t recall all of them. But, Fifth Avenue, Schenley, Peabody, Oliver, Allegheny, and, I believe, both of the vocational schools, Connelly and Washington, are gone. Probably some of the schools on the South Side and in the West End are gone too.

Also, much to the chagrin of Rifleman, Stefan Djorjovich and others, Ampipe is gone.

Of the WPIAL school we played when I was in HS (right after the invention of electricity), the only one still open is Wilkinsburg. All others have been replaced with mergers.

 

[TTOWN2]

why limit to the 70s or later, weren't a lot of the WPa schools consolidated in the late 60s? Like your own Har-Brack and Tarentum and my own West Deer and East Deer-Frazer?

Exactly California!!!

 

[California Panther]

Exactly California!!!

Go Tarentum Redcats, right TTown2! Never knew their fight song was their version of "On Wisconsin" until I got older and started to follow college football.

 

[DiehardPanther]

I think Dick Groat went to Edgewood HS. It and Swissvale now are part of Woodland Hills, along with Churchill, Braddock, North Braddock Scott, Rankin and Turtle Creek.

I remember the first of what would later become an avalanche of mergers: Keystone Oaks replaced Dormont, Castle Shannon and Greentree. The name came from the key to the door, the stone from the castle and the oak from the tree.

Wilkinsburg still exists. In the City League, there are so many gone I can’t recall all of them. But, Fifth Avenue, Schenley, Peabody, Oliver, Allegheny, and, I believe, both of the vocational schools, Connelly and Washington, are gone. Probably some of the schools on the South Side and in the West End are gone too.

Also, much to the chagrin of Rifleman, Stefan Djorjovich and others, Ampipe is gone.

Of the WPIAL school we played when I was in HS (right after the invention of electricity), the only one still open is Wilkinsburg. All others have been replaced with mergers.

Groat attended Swissvale HS.
http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/07352/842549-175.stm

 

[steelcurtain55.]

Wilkensburg still exists, at least as far as I know.

They closed in 2016. Westinghouse absorbed them.

 

[KennyTheKangaroo]

Wilkinsburg high school is closed but the school district still operates two elementary schools

 

[wbrpanther]

You may have but if not read "Striking grid iron"
Great story of the steel mill town and the Braddock /North Braddock Scott rivalry .
Mainly about Chuck Clausing . Braddock high Tigers . Very good read

I read it and it was excellent.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Of course Armstrong Central is now what used to be Ford City and Kittanning.

 

[mike412]

If Wilkinsburg is closed, that means every WPIAL HS we played outside the WPIAL when I was in HS is gone. And, of the City League schools we played, only Westinghouse still is open. Schenley and Peabody are closed; Fifth Avenue and South Hills were consolidated into Brashear
and I believe Allegheny and Oliver were merged with Perry.

In the WPIAL, we played Fox Chapel. Pine Richland is a consolidation of what: Gibsonia, Fox Chapel and Avonworth? More than those?

We played the old HS in Murraysville. Franklin Regional is a consolidation of that school and others.

And, we played Wilkinsburg.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

If Wilkinsburg is closed, that means every WPIAL HS we played outside the WPIAL when I was in HS is gone. And, of the City League schools we played, only Westinghouse still is open. Schenley and Peabody are closed; Fifth Avenue and South Hills were consolidated into Brashear
and I believe Allegheny and Oliver were merged with Perry.

In the WPIAL, we played Fox Chapel. Pine Richland is a consolidation of what: Gibsonia, Fox Chapel and Avonworth? More than those?

We played the old HS in Murraysville. Franklin Regional is a consolidation of that school and others.

And, we played Wilkinsburg.

Mike, Fox Chapel still exists. Pine Richland is just the old Richland High School, just now with Pine integrated to that name. Gibsonia, part of that would be with Pine Richland, part of it, most of it, Hampton.

 

[mike412]

Well, then it is the last survivor. I still remember the pep talk our assistant coach gave us when we played them. It went something like this:

“Gentlemen, I don’t know if you know this or not, but Fox Chapel is restricted. That means many of your families, if you are Jewish, can’t live here. If you are a Negro you can’t live here. They don’t think you are good enough. We are playing a team from a town full of bigots. Now, we all know you are smarter than them. But, let’s go out and show them we are better football players too. Let’s kick their asses!”

We got beat, 17-14, but it was the closest non-conference game we played in two years.

(Found out in college that the Supreme Court had declared restrictive covenants like those they had in Fox Chapel, Oakmont, Sewickley and Mount Lebanon unconstitutional and unenforceable a couple of years earlier.)

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Well, then it is the last survivor. I still remember the pep talk our assistant coach gave us when we played them. It went something like this:

“Gentlemen, I don’t know if you know this or not, but Fox Chapel is restricted. That means many of your families, if you are Jewish, can’t live here. If you are a Negro you can’t live here. They don’t think you are good enough. We are playing a team from a town full of bigots. Now, we all know you are smarter than them. But, let’s go out and show them we are better football players too. Let’s kick their asses!”

We got beat, 17-14, but it was the closest non-conference game we played in two years.

(Found out in college that the Supreme Court had declared restrictive covenants like those they had in Fox Chapel, Oakmont, Sewickley and Mount Lebanon unconstitutional and unenforceable a couple of years earlier.)

Not sure when you went to HS, you are old, unlike me , but Fox Chapel School District consists of Fox Chapel, O'Hara Twp, Aspinwall and Sharpsburg, That is what is has been my entire life. Sharpsburg at least was anything but exclusive, in fact I started my working career there and found out Italian was spoken as much as English.

 

[CCHS82]

West Mifflin South and North merged to form West Mifflin.

 

[mike412]

Not sure when you went to HS, you are old, unlike me , but Fox Chapel School District consists of Fox Chapel, O'Hara Twp, Aspinwall and Sharpsburg, That is what is has been my entire life. Sharpsburg at least was anything but exclusive, in fact I started my working career there and found out Italian was spoken as much as English.

I graduated in 1964. The Supreme Court ruled restrictive covenants illegal in 1948, but they weren’t challenged in PA until 1962. John Frank’s family moved to Mount Lebanon in 1966, as far as I know was the first Jewish family to move there. Of course, he became an AA at tOSU and later was on two 49ers Super Bowl Champions. Mark Cuban’s family moved there a little later.

Sharpsburg certainly isn’t upscale, and didn’t have restrictive covenants. But, Fox Chapel and O’Hara township did. I don’t know about Aspinwall. Anyway, it was an effective motivational speech to teenagers. One of our RBs, who was black, had the best game of his career.

You might be too young to remember when MABRO was a major advertiser on local TV. My dad worked as a roofer for them for almost 30 years. The owners were Jewish. He did a lot of roofing jobs in Sharpsburg and Millvale and other working class towns; mainly union workers referred by the unions. But, in 30 years he told me he never did a roofing job in Fox Chapel, Sewickley, Oakmont or Mount Lebanon. There were no restrictive covenants controlling who you could hire to put a new roof on your house. But, there were restricted minds.

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

West Mifflin South and North merged to form West Mifflin.

That's not really a merger. West Mifflin used to send their high school students to neighboring districts. When they opened their own high schools, they opened two. Eventually they consolidated into one.

 

[paulbl99]

Laurel Valley

 

[mike 301]

Laurel Valley

Highlands ?

 

[paulbl99]

Highlands ?

Ligonier - Laurel V consolidation w Laurel Closing