page_title: Austin Catholic Preparatory School
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: Austin Catholic Preparatory School / Athletics / Football
caption_attribution_description: English: The athletic field at Grosse Pointe South High School.
context_page_description: Austin Catholic Preparatory School was an all–male, non–residential college preparatory school in Detroit, Michigan. Austin was "one of the city's most widely respected schools." The school was founded in 1951 and operated by the Roman Catholic Order of Augustinians. Its first class graduated in 1956. Austin was closed in 1978 due to declining enrollment and a desire by the Augustinians to sell the school's property.
  Throughout its existence, Austin functioned in an unremarkable, austere, cinder block and brick building on an eleven-acre site at the corner of East Warren Avenue and Canyon Street on the far east side of Detroit, adjacent to the Grosse Pointes. Its spartan facilities included a gymnasium, library, and chapel, but no auditorium, swimming pool, track, or football stadium. Drawing most of its students from Detroit and the eastern suburbs, by its closing Austin had graduated 3,212 young men.
context_section_description: Austin did not have its own football stadium but played home games at the capacious and well-kept field of nearby Grosse Pointe South High School.  Fielding football teams between 1954-1977 (with the exception of 1965), Austin's all-time record was 66-105-6.  Austin was barred from fielding any level of football for the 1965 season, after a number of players and coaches were caught in an illegal pre-season practice in Sarnia, Ontario, in violation of Catholic High School League rules.  The head coach was dismissed, and a lawsuit brought by a number of parents to save the season was unsuccessful.  Austin's varsity football team enjoyed an 8-1 record in 1976, its best year.
caption: Austin's Home Football Field at Grosse Pointe South High School
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