On Tuesday, students of Webster Groves High School were turkey bowling. Literally. They used a well-wrapped turkey to attempt to knock down bowling pins as part of the school's Spirit Week leading up to the big football game against Kirkwood. Other activities during Spirit Week included dressing in a humorous manner in Kirkwood's school colors; dressing in Webster Grove's colors; and a canned food drive. The Turkey Bowl, which has been a tradition for around 10 years, is managed by the school's football coach, Cliff Ice.
On Thursday morning, runners will hit the streets of Kirkwood and Webster Groves to carry on a Thanksgiving tradition that's nearly three decades old and a staple of St. Louis road races: the Kirkwood-Webster Turkey Day Run. This year's race is expected draw about 4,000 participants with runners coming from across the country to participate in the local athletic tradition. The 29th Annual Kirkwood-Webster Turkey Day Run features a 3-mile and 6-mile course that start and end at the Kirkwood Farmers' Market (see attached map). The 3-mile run starts at 7:30 a.m. and the 6-mile run begins at 8:10…
As part of pre-Turkey Day Game festivities, the St. Louis Wing Company in Rock Hill hosted a chicken wing eating competition between stars from the Kirkwood Pioneers and Webster Groves Statesmen football teams. Kirkwood's BJ Buckner and Mike McHugh squared off against Webster's Rayshawn Simmons and Tony Smith. The teams were charged with the task of eating 60 wings per pair. While all the athletes put up an admirable effort, Simmons and Smith won the competition by seven wings, according to Bobby Tessler, owner of St. Louis Wing Company.
For the third straight year and sixth time in the last 10 years, the annual Kirkwood-Webster Groves Turkey Day Game will not feature varsity squads. The annual Thanksgiving Day matchup between Kirkwood and Webster has been a tradition since 1907. The two teams met nearly 100 times in that span with the Frisco Bell and year-long bragging rights on the line for the winning team. But in recent years, the Turkey Day Classic has been played with a little twist. Specifically, it has become a showdown between the schools' junior varsity teams because one of the two varsity teams had earned itself …
Excitement is in the air! The 2011 Turkey Day Game between Webster Groves and Kirkwood is just days away, and students at Webster Groves High School have a plethora of activities lined up to show their support of the Statesmen. Spirit Week activities leading up to the historic rivalry on Thanksgiving Day begin Monday with a carnival and end Wednesday night with a pep rally and bonfire. Here are the details. Monday Theme Day—students in each grade level dress in different themes. Seniors will dress as senior citizens, juniors in tie dye, sophomores in camouflage and freshman as little kids. …
Yearly, newspapers and broadcasters want to know the same thing: Which annual Turkey Day Game is this? Such a question seems simple but is not. The Turkey Day Game, the name now of the Kirkwood-Webster (or, depending upon who says it, Webster-Kirkwood) football contest, overly simplifies what the game was prior to Thanksgiving Day 1928. It is a game that precedes by 70 years the first Show-Me Bowl game, precedes by 28 years the creation of the Missouri State High School Activities Association and precedes by at least nine years the Suburban League and its related formations, including its …
