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Football League and the Biddy Basketball League. All teams were composed of students in elementary and Jr. High grades, ensuring every boy had a chance to play organized sports. Barthe was one of the only schools in the state to have an official "biddy" basketball regulation court (8'6" goals), and marked off in the official "key" formations and which was used primarily for its intramural league.
75:. He created a no-nonsense competitive environment to train young boys and teens in all aspects of their growth into adulthood. The school was originally located in uptown New Orleans on Gen. Pershing, then was relocated to the old McFadden residence in City Park in New Orleans, now the residence of the Christian Brothers. The school emphasized athletics and physical well-being, and all boys were encouraged to try out for organized team sports.
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Barthe himself retired to his "farm" in a rural area outside of New
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This change of conferences eliminated the local sports rivalries that had kept the school so predominantly in the public eye. Some students left the school, choosing to attend other more moderate private and parochial schools. But overall, enrollment kept growing and new rivalries from more distant
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National Merit Scholarship finalists in the New Orleans metro area. The school was also a perennial power in the local scholastic
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