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Show Me Bowl Leaving St. Louis;
McCluer North, McCluer Leave Class 5
By Jim Wieners
After 21 years of playing in the now former Edward Jones Dome the Missouri State High School Activities Association Board of Directors voted last April at Tan-Tar-A Resort in Fort Osage to move the Show Me Bowl to Springfield, Mo., Missouri State University Plaster Stadium November, 2016, and to Columbia, University of Missouri Faurot Field in November, 2017.
The decision came after the National
Football League relocated the Rams franchise from St. Louis back to Los Angeles. The move is for Classes One-Six of 11-Man Football while Eight-Man Football, which came to St. Louis in 2008, will move to Cameron or Chillicothe pending the MSHSAA Board of Directors vote that was to take place in June.
Plaster Stadium hosted some of the 11-
Man Show Me Bowl game fon 1988 to 1995 while Faurot Field hosted some of the 11-Man Show Me Bowl from 1987 to 1995 but had no lights. Today Faurot Field has lights but this Thanksgiving weekend the University of Missouri hosts the University of Arkansas in a Southeastern Conference Football game. Cameron has never hosted a State Football Final while Chillicothe won Class 3A title games at home in 1970, 1972 and 1978.
The Show Me Bowl began in 1979 at
Busch Stadium II, St. Louis and Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, hosting the 11-Man games from 1979 to 1986. Other Show Me Bowl sites include William Jewell College, Liberty; Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville; Missouri Southern State University, Joplin; Tarkio Academy, Tarkio; and Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph.
McCLUER NORTH TO CLASS SIX, McCLUER TO CLASS FOUR — After competing in Class Five, District Two playoffs from 2012 to 2015 McCluer North and McCluer leave Class Five for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. McCluer North is one of the largest 32 high schools by enrollment and will compete in Class Six, District Two with Suburban XII Conference North Division rival Hazelwood Central and Hazelwood West, former Suburban North Conference rival Ritenour (now in the Suburban XII South Division), Metro Catholic Conference rivals CBC (Class Six State Runner Up), DeSmet Jesuit, St, Louis University High (another Catholic-Jesuit High School) and Maquettte, a Rockwood District high School.
Meanwhile McCluer High moves to Class Four, District Three and joins Suburban XII North Rival Riverview Gardens. Coming along from Class Five, District Two to Class Four District Three are two Parkway District high schools, Parkway Centrral and Parkway North, and Fort Zumwalt East. Also competing in Class Four, District Three are Class Four Quarterfinalist University City, Class Four, District Three runner up St. Dominic and St. Charles High, a former Suburban North rival from the mid-1960s to the mid 1970s.
That leaves Hazelwood East as the lone
SuburbanXII North High School to compete in Class Five, District Two. Hazelwood East competes against two Suburban XII South schools Webster Groves and Pattonville (former Suburban North rival), Class Five State runner up Chaminade, Francis Howell North and Parkway South. Since there are only six schools the top two seeds will each receive a first-round bye.
Lutheran North, the Class Two Quarterfinalist a year ago, will be competing in Class Two, District Two along with another Class Two Quarterfinalist, Cardinal Ritter as well as Trinity Catholic, Herculaneum and Public High League rivals Carnahan High of the Future and, Cleveland Naval Jr. ROTC, Northwest Academy of Law and Sumner.
Last year Lutheran North won Class Two, District Five which includes a 64-38 win over previously unbeaten Brentwood while Cardinal Ritter won Class Two, District Two.
In Class Three, McCluer South-Berkeley, a Ferguson-Florissant District high school, will be in District Five along with Suburban Central Conference American Division rivals Jennings and Normandy Collaborative, Gateway Athletic Conference North Division rivals Orchard Farm and St. Charles West as well as Duchesne, Lutheran St. Charles County and Soldan International. Jennings and St. Charles West moved from Class Four, District Three
