Wasabi Bowl – Pre Party at New Dia

Join us at Gate 420 for your pre party ritual and post game celebration! The Wasabi Bowl is also carving history into Boston’s legacy, check out the history below!

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Almost from the day it opened its doors in 1912, “America’s Most Beloved Ballpark” became a football hotbed, hosting high school, college and professional games on a regular basis for over a half-century. Less than a month after the Red Sox had polished off the New York Giants in what still is regarded as one of the greatest World Series ever, the team’s owners granted permission to long-time city rivals Boston Latin and English to play their annual Thanksgiving Day football game in Fenway Park. There was some original reluctance, “because of the danger of cutting up the diamond,” but those fears were quickly set aside. Just two days after Latin edged English, 7-6, Fenway Park staged a mythical national championship high school game between Oak Park (Il.), a powerhouse from suburban Chicago, and Everett (Mass.), a game that dominated the headlines both here and in the Midwest. Extra elevated trains were added to accommodate a crowd estimated at more than 10,000, with ticket prices for reserved seats scaled at 50 cents, 75 cents, and $1, and additional direct wires were installed to serve the newspapers from Boston to Chicago. Everett and its stalwart captain, George Brickley, were no match for the “Cyclone of Chicago,” as the Oak Park team was called in headlines after its 32-14 demolition of the locals. Oak Park’s coach, Bob Zuppke, made liberal use of a new innovation called the forward pass, overwhelming the old-fashioned Everett eleven. “Its passing game, which resembled basket ball (sic), consisted of forward, double, triple and even quadruple passes,” the Boston Globe reported. “…There has never been a better game played in New England.”

A week and a half later, by the way, Zuppke resigned at Oak Park to become coach at the University of Illinois, where he won four national championships and coached the Galloping Ghost, Red Grange.

This was only the beginning. By 1914, there were 10 high school games played at Fenway Park, a number that grew to more than 40 by 1932. Thanksgiving Day games, Columbus Day double-headers, even the occasional triple-header, Fenway became football crazy.

“It was a venue where post office clerks, soda jerks and inspectors for the public works were just as apt to venture as participants as fans,” sports historian Richard Johnson told the Globe.

The college boys joined in the fun in 1914, when Boston College first made Fenway Park its home away from home with a one-sided 28-6 rout of Norwich (Vt.) University, the first of 76 games the Eagles would play in the Fens.

But Boston College was hardly alone among the local college teams that had a chance to strut their stuff on the same field as Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, Duffy Lewis and the rest of the “Speed Boys.” With a last-minute touchdown in 1915, Dartmouth, coached by Frank “the Iron Major” Cavanaugh, edged Penn, 7-3, and Holy Cross, Tufts, Boston University, Providence and Springfield College were among the local elevens who played on the Fenway Park grounds.

The Boston Park League took its first crack at playing in Fenway Park in 1919, when the St. Alphonsus-Pere Marquette game featured the end of a 10-mile road race at halftime, and soon the pros moved in. George Preston Marshall acquired the rights to a Boston NFL franchise in 1932, when he played his first season as the Boston Braves in Braves Field, then in 1933 moved to Fenway, where he rechristened the team “the Redskins.” But the pay-for-play boys had a tough time drawing a crowd. Marshall gave up in 1936, when the Redskins moved their championship game to New York’s Polo Grounds, and the following season he relocated to Washington, where the Redskins have played ever since.

But a precedent had been set. Football had a home in Boston, and it was called Fenway Park.