Hardly. My father grew in western Pennsylvania in the 1930s, when not a lot of people went to college--this was before the war and the GI Bill. The annual high

Hardly. My father grew in western Pennsylvania in the 1930s, when not a lot of people went to college--this was before the war and the GI Bill. The annual high school football game between his town and the next one over was heavily patrolled by the police the keep brawls from starting. And from the same period you will find a sandlot football in the novel The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan--fiction, but presumably plausible.