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HISTORY The league was formed in the fall of 1926 with charter members Libbey, Scott, Waite, and Woodward. Later additions were Central Catholic (c. 1928 ), DeVilbiss ( 1931 ), Macomber (c. 1938 ), St. Francis (c. 1955 ), Bowsher and Start ( 1963 ), Rogers and St. John's (c. 1966 ), and eventually Clay and Whitmer in 2003 . In 1966 the City League expanded to include 12 teams, with two 6-team divisions created. The divisional winners would meet annually in the Shoe Bowl for the city championship at the University Of Toledo 's Glass Bowl until the end of the 1991 school year. Due to financial problems and declining enrollment, DeVilbiss and Macomber-Whitney were regrettably closed by the Toledo Public School District after the 1990-91 school year. Afterwards, the divisions and the Shoe Bowl were eliminated, with the league championship being replaced with the "Hall of Fame Game." More financial problems caused the parochial schools to play an independent schedule for the 1991 football season, as the remaining public schools played for the league title. The parochial schools would return to league play for the 1992 football season, but Cardinal Stritch had withdrawn its membership after the 1991-92 school year since their enrollment numbers were substantially smaller than the other schools. For the 2003-04 school year, Clay and Whitmer joined, leaving the crumbling Great Lakes League , which had folded at the end of the 2003 school year. There were talks of using the division format again, but the league has continued to play in all sports without them. The league was the first major conference in Ohio to sponsor girls' sports, hosting a championship track meet in 1970 (five years prior to the first OHSAA state track championship). The 1972 City League championship meet was the first-ever coed track meet in Ohio.
In the summer of 2006, it was announced that the Shoe Bowl would return on August 18 , 2006 not as the championship game, but as the round-robin exhibition tournament that it was originally created for from the 1930s to the mid 60s. Toledo St. John's, Toledo Scott, Toledo Start, Toledo Woodward, Temperance Bedford (MI), Metamora Evergreen, and Oregon Cardinal Stritch scrimmaged against each other in the pre-season action at the Glass Bowl. EXTERNAL LINKS
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