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54th Annual Swine Bowl

November 25, 2007

The first Swine Bowl took place in 1954 when a group of Westchester teenagers decided late one autumn to play a game mocking high school football. They’ve had so much fun over the years that even after going their separate ways to college they felt a need to reassemble on the Saturday after Thanksgiving every year since.

The inception of the name of the contest is not clear, which makes sense because either are the rules.  The one overwhelming imperative is that everyone has a good time, and if yesterday’s game is any indication this dictum was followed with relentless enthusiasm.

The game now draws third generation family members of the original participants, and some of the originators of the game return annually - in fact Richard Greeman makes it to the game all the way from the south of France, where he lives in retirement.

“Most of the originals show up every year,” said Dan Breslaw, one of those originals. He lives in West Corinth, Vt., and says that the only games he missed were during the six years he lived in Alaska. “I could never have predicted when we started that we’d be doing this at the age of 70,” he said.

Thanks to Clyde Haberman for source material for this article.

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