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No problem. It's unfortunately a relatively common misunderstanding. There are two kids in the last 20 years that were from Cinti that transferred to Highlands that I can recall. Jeff Ruby's kid came as a frosh and left after his sophomore year and transferred to Moeller. Another frosh the same year ( a friend of Ruby's) came and stayed but wasn't an impact player.

As another poster mentioned, the Ft. Thomas Junior Football League does not play games against Cincy teams (or N. Ky teams either for that matter). It truly is an intercity league that only competes against other teams within the City. There is no traveling team either. The rosters are split up to try and evenly divide the talent amongst the teams. The philosophy of the league is to get a lot of kids playing time (minimum participation rule) while trying to develop a lot of different kids at each position. It's worked pretty well. This year the league celebrates its 50th year anniversary.

They used to play in the Northern Ky Middle School league but as that league evolved out of a fundmental/learn the game mentality to a win, win , win at all cost. Highlands went back to their proven system. I believe they left in 1992 or so and if you look at their history from mid 1990's on you can't agrue with the results