Pace, Belen to battle it out in Turkey Bowl
A hot football rivalry between two local Catholic high schools, the Wolverines of Belen Jesuit and the Spartans of Msgr. Edward Pace High School, will turn points scored on the football field into turkeys in the homes of poor families this Thanksgiving.
The competitors will be participating in Turkey Bowl 2017, an annual charity event sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, Coral Gables Council 3274 to help fund the council's Thanksgiving Food Drive for needy families. Both schools are again pledging $10 per point scored in this year's game towards the Council's Thanksgiving food drive.
Turkey Bowl 2017 kicks off at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3 at de la Cruz Stadium. Attendees at the game will also have an opportunity to make personal contributions.
After the game, the Knights of Columbus will present the winning team with the game's traveling trophy, a silver turkey platter engraved with the helmet designs of both teams. Also engraved on the trophy are the scores and winners of previous Turkey Bowls and a message that reads: "This traveling trophy, symbolic of the many empty platters that both schools help to fill through their generous support of the Knights of Columbus Coral Gables Council #3274 Thanksgiving Food Drive, is awarded to the winner of the varsity football game between Belen Jesuit Preparatory School and Monsignor Edward Pace High School."
The Turkey Bowl tradition started in 2007 by Knights of Columbus Coral Gables Council members who are alumni of the competing schools: Pace's Douglas Austin and Belen's Jorge Varela.
(This story originally appeared on the Archdiocese of Miami website.)
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.