Talk:St. Xavier High School (Louisville)

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[edit] User Vandalism

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74.130.203.121 made some POV statements with no sources to back up the claims.

This article is not to compare St. X to Trinity, but only to inform about St. X.

ShadowSpy 23:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Cruise

Didn't Tom Cruise go to St. X for one year or so? If so, and if somebody has a good reference, please add it. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:58, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I read something on the wall of a Louisville restaurant stating that Tom Cruise attended St X for one year in the 1970s, under his birth name of Tom Mapother. I do not have a reference.123.255.61.70 (talk) 20:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] National merit

There is no citation for the claim that St. X has the 3rd most National merit scholars in the US. That actually sounds a bit far fetched. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.128.118.164 (talk) 03:26, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

It would be nice if there were a website with a user sortable table that could document or refute this claim. In my day, St. X and Waggener had the most Merit Scholars among all Kentucky high schools.123.255.61.70 (talk) 20:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Some history

For nearly 100 years, the St. X campus on Broadway in downtown Louisville was THE Roman Catholic high school for Louisville boys, as rivals Trinity and Flaget did not open until the 1940s. (Flaget closed in the 1970s.) In 1961, this 1860s campus was raised to permit the construction of I-65, and St X moved to its current Poplar Level Road campus.

I bet that the intellectually accomplished alumnae of St X goes beyond Viscusi and Rucker. St X should be proud of visionary Rucker.

I am puzzled by the claim that St X - Trinity is the best attended high school football game in the USA; Louisville is only the 40th largest metro area in the US. Perhaps the reason is that Louisville (unlike St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati) has no pro football franchise, and football at the Universities of Louisville and Kentucky has not been all that strong over the decades (although Johnny Unitas played for the former). The entry does not mention St. X basketball, THE team sport in Kentucky as well as Indiana. Mike Silliman, a US Olympic team member in the 1960s, played high school basketball at St. X.123.255.61.70 (talk) 20:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)