The 1945 Kelly Bowl Football Classic

8/27/2021

In 1945, a state football championship was not yet in existence, so for a Chicago city or Catholic League team, the ALL CITY game was the biggest championship available!

More than 80,000 fans at Chicago’s Soldier Field saw the Fenwick Friars (8-1-2) defeat the favored Tilden Tech Blue Devils by a final score of 20-6. Fifty years later, alumnus Jack Lambert ’46 (now deceased) shared his fond memories of the big game: