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Relatively few people associate Georgetown Preparatory School as a boarding school, but the North Bethesda school’s opening of a new football stadium hearkened back to the all-male school’s foundations. Founded in 1789 by Bishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States, Georgetown Prep did not admit day students until the 1940s.
Dedicated on Nov. 5, the William V. Bidwill ’49 Stadium at historic Fegan-Galvin Field hosts Hoya football games, in addition to lacrosse and soccer matches. Bidwill, who died in 2019, was a Chicago-born boarding student at Prep and kicker and fullback on the varsity football team who later become owner of the St. Louis and Arizona Cardinals NFL team. The franchise started in Chicago and moved south to St. Louis before its 1988 move to its current Arizona home.
His son, Michael Bidwill, is the current Cardinals owner, and he attended Prep as a boarding student for his final two years of high school before graduating in 1983. Bidwill served on the Prep board for two terms and committed to paying for the stadium’s $8 million construction as a part of Georgetown Prep’s For the Greater Glory capital campaign.
“We love the school,” Bidwill told the Catholic Standard, speaking on behalf of his brothers Patrick, a 1985 Prep graduate, and Tim, a 1990 Prep graduate.
Read more here: https://cathstan.org/news/local/georgetown-prep-dedicates-new-stadium-named-for-late-arizona-cardinals-owner-and-alumnus-william-v-bidwill
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