Football: Birmingham gets transfer student

Defending City Section champion Birmingham might have found a promising defensive end to help replace the Jackson twins with the arrival of 6-foot-2, 230-pound senior Marquelle Henderson from Boise, Idaho.

Henderson practiced for the first time on Thursday. He moved to the area to live with his father, David, who was a Fairfax High basketball player in the 1980s. Henderson supposedly has good speed and athleticism. Coach Ed Croson is taking a wait and see approach but adding a defensive lineman would be good news for the Patriots.

One certainty is the improvement by senior quarterback Morey Croson. His arm is much stronger than a year ago, and that should bring smiles to USC-bound receiver De'Von Flournoy, who should be getting lots of long passes to catch.

-- Eric Sondheimer

Comments

[Wow]

Yup,
that is about right people just falling from the sky and landing at Birmingham, not Van Nuys, Grant, El Camino, Granada, but Birmingham!! Also yup until someone opens their mouth in this league , they are going to keep taking it from behind year in and year out!!

[Alumni]

Wow, great comment. Recruitment is alive and well - now nationwide! Birmingham stacks their team, taking all comers! Let's keep players away from the league competition - on the bench as second and third stringers. Good enough to start and actually play at neighboring schools, but not at Birmingham! At least the kids will get a championship ring, without ever playing a down! What a way to promote sportsmanship. Stay with your neighborhood district school.

[BHS ALUM]

Hey listen up sore losers, don't blame a great program for attracting great athletes. Can you blame the kids for wanting to play for a school that actually has had great success in its football program? Don't let your minds drive you wild in speculation of Recruitment (give me a break). Give credit to who credit is worthy to! (and no, its not Van Nuys!)

[FootballFann]

I'm against any recruiting in high school sports as much as the next person...but what you,Wow and Alumni might want to read or read again is the agreement you accepted when you joined this forum...It is regarding providing user content that:
"...is defamatory, threatening, disparaging, grossly inflammatory, false, misleading, fraudulent, innacurate, unfair, contains gross exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims, violates the privacy rights of any third party, is unreasonable harmful or offensive to any individual or community...
you are speculating and could be very much out of line.

[GeeDee]

Stop crying. Birmingham has never and will not ever recruit players to play any sport at Birmingham. I did not hear people crying when Taft was recruiting. Yes, people want to go to Birmingham. Let your team win 4 out of the past 6 championships, carry a 13-game winning streak and send 5 people to Division 1 every year then people might just choose your school of interest so you can stop crying. You will be shocked if you found out the amount of quility athletes Birmingham turns down every year for various reasons...