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WISHING OUR RED AND BLUE TEAMS GOOD LUCK!!
First South Side High School built on College Place
Girls Sports Night becomes Red and Blue, a "color war" between two teams
New South Side High School built on Hillside Avenue Red and Blue games now have two captains per side
The Women’s National Basketball Association is formed
First Girls Sports Night hosted
Third South Side High School built on Shepherd Street; Hillside Avenue location becomes South Side Middle School
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is created during World War II
The South Side soccer team goes 20-0 to become the first in New York to maintain perfection throughout an entire championship season
Blue team members show their support.
Red team members cheer on their teammates.
Title IX enacted, requiring that girls be allowed to play sports in high school
A charity fundraiser is introduced to the Red and Blue games
Crystal Dunn scored three times in the first 20 minutes and had four goals overall in South Side’s 6-0 win over Greece Arcadia in the state championship soccer game
Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets during the second “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match
Dunn is selected by the Washington Spirit with the first overall pick in the National Women’s Soccer League draft
Controversy reigned at the games. The Red Team was originally declared the winner by a single point, but after the judges recalculated the scores, a tie was announced. It was the 11th and most recent tie in the event’s history
The Blue Team wins for the sixth straight year, the longest winning streak in the event’s history
100th anniversary of Red and Blue celebrated
Senior field hockey player Keri Cavallo scores 4:10 into the third overtime to give the Lady Cyclones a 2-1 victory over Shoreham-Wading River in the Long Island Class A championship game
Pam Postema is the first woman to officiate a professional sporting event when she umpired a Major League Baseball spring training game
South Side girls’ lacrosse wins Nassau County Class II championship
Girls’ volleyball nets Class A title
Girls’ soccer wins the Class A championship.
South Side captured its third Nassau Class A girls' volleyball title in the last six years
South Side girls’ lacrosse wins Nassau County Class II championship. Girls’ soccer wins the Class A championship.
South Side girls’ cross-country wins third straight Nassau County championship