Some football fans on this forum may be interested in this piece of news. Record attendance today down here in Texas for a high school football game. 54,347 attended the TX Class 5A Div 1 state championship game between Allen & Pearland high schools at Cowboy Stadium. There are 2 other games played there today, so that may skew the attendance number. Although not verified yet, this may be a national record for high school football.

our commit Mayomi Olootu is playing in that game for Allen

Looks like the 1937 Chicago Prep Bowl between Public League champ Austin High School and Catholic League Champ Leo has them beat by a significant margin.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-...lic-league

(12-21-2013 10:32 PM)niu79 Wrote:  Looks like the 1937 Chicago Prep Bowl between Public League champ Austin High School and Catholic League Champ Leo has them beat by a significant margin.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-...lic-league

Wow! Great story! I'll forward this to the Dallas Morning News HS sports dept. So far, the next highest attendance that they were able to find was a hs fb game in Buffalo NY back in 1948 which had a little over 50,000 in attendance.

guarantee that more television views for the game then some MAC teams!!

*Usher chief Andy Frain*

Lol! I used to work for his company. I think that's the same Andy Frain that runs the security for Chicago venues and suburban high schools. Guys been around for a while!


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Forget about college, compare that to NFL games.

That's a larger attendance than any Jaguars game this year. As well as Oakland, Tampa, Pittsburgh & St. Louis since NFL uses "ticket distributed" numbers instead of butts in the seats