McDonogh School and Gilman School have a long-standing rivalry on the gridiron, beginning with the first annual matchup in 1914. The annual football game is the pinnacle of school spirit as a pep rally and countless orange and black decorations mark the occasion. Years ago, students would decorate McDonogh’s school buses to celebrate, and as students disembarked from their bus the morning before the game, they would step on a greyhound “dummy” as a symbolic gesture of McDonogh stomping on Gilman on the gridiron. A nod to this tradition, the t-shirt from 1995 portrays the McDonogh Eagle stepping on the Gilman Greyhound. Although the rivalry is competitive, it is ultimately a friendly competition between two institutions who value the role of athletics in developing students into well-prepared young adults.
McDonogh vs. Gilman Game T-Shirt – 1995
