Belvidere High School (Belvidere, Illinois)
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Belvidere High School is located in at 1500 East Ave., Belvidere, Illinois
, 61008 in Boone County.
The school is perhaps most notable for the deaths of 13 students and staff on the afternoon of April 21, 1967 when an F4
tornado
struck the school as part of a massive tornado outbreak in the Midwest. It is the sixth worse loss of life at an American school as a result of tornadoes, and the worst since 1955.
(IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Bucs (a shortening of Buccaneer).
The school won back–to–back state championships in football
in the autumns of 1993 and 1994.
Matt Barr
, a nationally-recognized quarterback with the Western Illinois University Leathernecks
, attended Belvidere and played for the team. At Belvidere, he was an all-conference quarterback and punter and the league's 2005 offensive MVP.
Belvidere, Illinois
Belvidere is a city in Boone County, Illinois, United States. The population was 25,585 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Boone County. Belvidere is part of the Rockford, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
, 61008 in Boone County.
The school is perhaps most notable for the deaths of 13 students and staff on the afternoon of April 21, 1967 when an F4
Fujita scale
The Fujita scale , or Fujita-Pearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation...
tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...
struck the school as part of a massive tornado outbreak in the Midwest. It is the sixth worse loss of life at an American school as a result of tornadoes, and the worst since 1955.
Athletics
Belvidere competes in the Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-10), and is a member of the Illinois High School AssociationIllinois High School Association
The Illinois High School Association is one of 521 state high school associations in the United States, designed to regulate competition in most interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level. It is a charter member of the National Federation of State High...
(IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Bucs (a shortening of Buccaneer).
The school won back–to–back state championships in football
High school football
High school football, in North America, refers to the game of football as it is played in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations....
in the autumns of 1993 and 1994.
Matt Barr
Matt Barr (American football)
Matt Barr is an American football quarterback with the Western Illinois Leathernecks football team. During the 2010 season, Barr threw for 3,410 yards 27 touchdowns and 8 interceptions in 13 games. He also ran for 675 yards and 7 touchdowns...
, a nationally-recognized quarterback with the Western Illinois University Leathernecks
Western Illinois Leathernecks
The Western Illinois Leathernecks are the teams and athletes that represent Western Illinois University, located in Macomb, Illinois, in NCAA Division I sports. The school's primary conference affiliation is with The Summit League; its football team is a member of the Division I FCS Missouri...
, attended Belvidere and played for the team. At Belvidere, he was an all-conference quarterback and punter and the league's 2005 offensive MVP.