2007 Results

L - Hillsboro , 0-37
L - Pana , 0-30
L - Staunton , 0-35
*L - Alton Marquette , 16-49
*W - Roxana , 18-7
*W - Southwestern , 20-6
*L - Carlinville , 12-13
*L - East Alton-Wood River , 23-34
L - Litchfield , 20-27

2008 Varsity Schedule

 AHillsboro   08/29
 HPana   09/05
 AStaunton   09/12
*HAlton Marquette   09/19
*ARoxana   09/26
*ASouthwestern   10/03
*HCarlinville   10/10
*AEast Alton-Wood River   10/17
 HLitchfield   10/24
* = League Game

South Central West Conference

      
2008 South Central West
C P Carlinville Cavaliers  (4-5)
P Alton Marquette Explorers  (6-3)
East Alton-Wood River Oilers  (2-7)
P Southwestern Piasa Birds  (5-4)
Gillespie Miners  (3-6)
Roxana Shells  (0-9)
C - Conference Representative
P - Clinched IHSA Playoff Bid
      
2007 South Central West
C P Carlinville Cavaliers  (7-4)
P Alton Marquette Explorers  (6-4)
East Alton-Wood River Oilers  (4-5)
Southwestern Piasa Birds  (3-6)
Gillespie Miners  (2-7)
Roxana Shells  (0-9)
C - Conference Representative
P - Clinched IHSA Playoff Bid

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2008 Team Results

 OpponentRECPFPACONFDate
WLitchfield 3-6272510/24/08
LEast Alton-Wood River 2-72030Yes10/17/08
LCarlinville 4-5722Yes10/10/08
LSouthwestern 5-41419Yes10/03/08
WRoxana 0-9357Yes09/26/08
LAlton Marquette 6-31229Yes09/19/08
LStaunton 6-301209/12/08
LPana 5-471209/05/08
WHillsboro 3-633608/29/08

First Round IHSA Football Playoff Matchups, Oct 31-Nov 1

Coaches

NameDutiesExp
Borgini, DonHead Coach25
Burns, JackRB, OLB
Easton, AndyDefensive Coordinator
Link, GeorgeO Line, LB
Seago, CarlAsst. Freshman
Smith, JeremyHead Freshman

Top Players, Gillespie Miners

Rating#NamePosHTWTYR
14 Zeke Clements RB 5-11 160 JR
23 Matt Davis QB 6-0 170 JR
68 Cory Farris T 6-4 220 SR
35 Jordan Ferralto RB 5-8 150 JR
52 Steve Gregory OL 6-2 220 SR
9 Quinn Hellman WR 5-10 165 SR
73 Matt Hohnsbehn T 6-3 250 JR
62 Steve Koniak C 6-0 205 SR
32 Kyle Lancaster RB 5-8 165 SR
34 John Odle FB 6-0 215 SR
56 Tyler Ross T 6-3 255 JR
67 Dyllan Tiburzi OL 6-1 190 JR
Why Mascots Have Tails?
This is an outdated article about a book, from 2005. It is neat to see the different mascots in Illinois so am including the article and a link to the book website. I do not think the book is avaiable, at the least not from the link to the IHSA store.

http://www.ihsa.org/store/books/mascots/releases.htm
April 25, 2005

What do Bunnies, Orphans, Midgets, Rocks, Shells, and Pretzels have in common? They are all mascot names of Illinois high schools. What is a Caxy? What is a Tar? How about a Whip-Pur, a Piasa Bird, or a Sobo? They are also Illinois high school mascots, too.

Illinois has 788 high schools that use 250 different mascot names, 144 of which are very unusual. In a new book by Fred Willman called Why Mascots Have Tales these 144 unusual mascots are examined to discover what they mean and how they got their names. Maps showing their locations are included. There is an entire chapter devoted to girls' team mascots. Girls' teams use six different options to name themselves in Illinois, a national leader in girls' team mascots. The book also compares mascots of Illinois high schools to mascots nationwide. Then it examines two other ingredients of Illinois high school spirit - school colors and school enrollments. All of this information reveals remarkable facts about the geography and history of Illinois as well as the diversity, the distribution, the character, and the careers of its people.

45% of all the state's high school mascots are animals of some kind. They are divided into mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, aquatic life, and insects and arachnids. They are further divided into fifty subcategories. Names range from the most popular of all mascots, the Eagles, used by 39 schools, to 46 others that are used just once each. Some of these include the Fisher Bunnies, the Red Hill Salukis, the Aurora East Tomcats, the Queen of Peace Pride (of Lions), the Southwestern Piasa Birds, the Mt. Assisi Academy Screeching Eagles, the Tremont Turks (for Turkeys), the Havana Ducks, and the Resurrection Bandits (Raccoons).

42% of the mascots are people. The most common are military mascots, followed by Native Americans, endeavors, descriptors, religion, myth or folklore, ethnic groups, titles, and names. These categories are further divided into 42 subcategories. Mascots include the Cobden Appleknockers, the Hoopeston Area Cornjerkers, The Centralia Orphans, the Cristo Rey Cristeros, the Polo Marcos, the Freeburg Midgets, the Morton Potters, the Atwood-Hammond Rajahs, the Monticello Sages, the Antioch Sequoits, the South Shore Tars, the New Trier Trevians, and the Monmouth Zippers.

The remaining 13% fall into the category of "Others." It is divided into the categories of environmental, transportation, celestial, energy, alphanumerics, colors, clothing, foods, weapons and ammunition, and miscellaneous mascots, and then subdivided into 27 smaller categories. Of the 100 high schools in the Others category, 43 have names used by no other school in the state. Here you will find schools such as the De Kalb Barbs, the Mount Carmel Caravan, the Lake Forest Academy Caxys, the Genoa-Kingston Cogs, the Rockford East E-Rabs, the Effingham Flaming Hearts, the Rochelle Hubs, both the Freeport and New Berlin Pretzels, the Plano Reapers, the Rock Island Rocks, the Roxana Shells, the South Beloit Sobos, the Hampshire Whip-Purs, the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes, and the Zion-Benton Fighting Zee Bees.

High school mascots are like the tip of an iceberg. What we see is a name and a logo. But, the stories beneath them tell us much about the geography, the history, and the people of Illinois. We discover that mascots were not created until the 1920's and early 1930'swhen high school education was greatly expanded throughout the country following World War I. We discover the importance of coaches and sportswriters in the selection of mascots at schools such as Fisher, Centralia, Teutopolis, Hoopeston, Atwood-Hammond, and Marshall in Chicago, as well as local historic or economic reasons in places like Morton, Roxana, De Kalb, Serena, Plano, or Kewanee.

We learn about the Black Hawk War when we study the Prophetstown Prophets, and the reason southern Illinois is nicknamed "Little Egypt" when we read about the Egyptian Pharaohs and the Red Hill Salukis. We discover Catherine McAuley and her Sisters of Mercy when we learn the origin of the Mother McAuley Mighty Macs. The great accomplishments of local hero Zenas Applington are uncovered as we read about the Marco Polos. The history of the Illinois and Michigan Canal is revealed when we read about the Argo Argonauts and the Lockport Porters. Interesting Native American history is presented as we read about the Southwestern Piasa Birds, the Collinsville Kahoks, the Pittsfield Saukees, the Kankakee Kays, and the Antioch Sequoits.

The story behind the Joliet Steelmen teaches us about the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago in 1933-34 as well as the colorful history of Joliet. Sometimes great or memorable teams led to mascot names such as the Freeberg Midgets, the New Berlin Pretzels, the Red Bud Musketeers, the DePue Little Giants, or the Fairfield Mules. Turks, Zippers, and Bandits are not what they say they are when used as mascots.

Illinois closely mirrors national high school mascot category totals. Illinois has the fifth highest number of high schools in the country and the fifth highest number of unusual mascots as well. 87% of the 150 different mascot categories are in Illinois are very close to national percentages. The one hundred most popular mascots in the United States are compared to the most popular mascots in Illinois. The similarities of both lists far outnumber the differences.

The study of school colors reveals the most popular colors in the state, the most popular color combinations led by orange and black used by 60 schools, and the most unusual color combos such as the silver and gold of the Galesburg Silver Streaks or the purple and teal of the Academy of Communication and Technology Phantoms. Also included are the effects of school colors upon mascot names, and all of the high schools that have the same school colors as yours.

Once again, some surprising facts are uncovered. For example, out of 788 high schools in Illinois, only three use the color yellow as a school color, and two of those schools don't even call it yellow. Murphysboro calls it corn and Galva calls it maize. Bronzeville Military Academy in Chicago is the only school brave enough to be yellow. At the opposite extreme, the most popular school color in Illinois, white, is so popular that it is used by 47% of all the high schools in the state. So many different shades of blue are used as school colors that they outnumber basic blue 193 to 111. Blue is the only color to be paired with itself. Sixteen different high schools do so in either two or three color combinations. Maroon is the most surprising of the 37 different colors or color shades used by Illinois high schools. More schools use maroon in Illinois than any other state. Not only do 71 schools use it, but eight of them use the name maroons as their mascot.

The study of school enrollments reveals the smallest to largest schools in the state, the average size high school, the smallest to largest counties and regions in the state, and the overwhelming urbanization in Illinois, particularly in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. There are also comparisons of public versus private school enrollments, coed versus non-coed enrollments, religious versus non-religious private enrollment, and the religious affiliations of the religious schools.

Once again, enrollment data uncovers some shocking facts. Here are some examples. Of the 102 counties in the state, the smallest sixty contain only 8% of the high school students and the smallest eighty contain only 16%. The average enrollment of each of the 202 high schools in Cook County is more than the enrollment of 51 entire counties, which are exactly half the counties in the state. 42 of the counties each have less than 1000 high school students in them. The smallest high school in the state has four students. The largest has about 4,320. The two largest high schools in the state, Stevenson in Lincolnshire and Lane Tech in Chicago, contain more students than the enrollments of the twenty smallest counties combined. Maps, tables, and observations about enrollment data are included in the chapter.

The book concludes with an alphabetical directory and index of every high school in the state and facts about each of them, including their boys' and girls' mascot, their school colors, approximate enrollment, conference, community, county, if they are public or private, and if they are coed or not.

Why Mascots Have Tales is a reference book, a humorous book, a trivia book, a geography book, a history book, a sociology book, and an anthropology book. It is also a non-fiction book, but it is greatly affected by fiction. High school mascot names are real, but why they were chosen and how their communities perceive them involves history, natural surroundings, folklore, and that powerful emotion called school spirit. It is a carefully collected and organized storehouse of information about the montage of emotional symbols of all the high schools representing the communities of our state, which makes it both fun and academically significant.