APR. 2, 1965
Sports Slants
One of the big problems faced by high school athletics in the rapidly expanding Chicago area is that of the placement of new schools and redistribution of the old ones into appropriate conferences. This has happened, so regularly and so frequently that Maine West has yet to play in an unchanged conference two years in a row. Next year will be no exception.
You may not have known, for instance, that the gridmen will have no chance to avenge this year's 14-13 loss to Deerfield; nor will they again meet with Glenbrook North, Glenbrook South, or Niles North, since these schools will be leaving the fold to form the Central Suburban League. Two Des Plaines
Who will be left? Maine West, Prospect, Forest View, and Wheeling will be the nucleus of the 1965-66 Mid-Suburban League whose numbers will be bolstered by the addition of Palatine and Palatine Conant high schools.
The school shuffling will not end with the 1965-66 season, however. The MSL will retain its former eight-team capacity in two years when Elk Grove and Arlington high schools will become the fourth and fifth MidSuburban members from the Arlington system.