Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Fall 2013 | Page 12

It hadn’t happened since 1938, but this fall,
Thornton Academy played football on home turf
and under the lights.

Esther Anderson,
widow of the 1938 team
captain, tossed the coin,
and won the toss (right).

In 1938, the football team played St. Louis
H.S., their second game of the day. Four Saco
fire trucks, with ladders extended and lights
attached, lit the field and the spotlights kept
shattering in the cold.