Blue & Blue day is an intra-school competition amongst the male students at SCH. When a boy first enrolls, they are assigned to a color: light blue or dark blue. If there is a family history at the school (a sibling/parent/grandparent/uncle), a student is assigned the same color as their family predecessor. (Brothers enrolling at the same time would naturally be on the same team.)

Blue and Blue Day typically occurs on a Friday in late April. A bagpiper leads the student body out to the Maguire Stadium/Landreth Field/Hines Track where the Lower School boys participate in novelty races and the Middle and Upper School students participate in track and field events— sprint dashes, the long jump, shot put, shuttle hurdles, 800-meter relay—and a tug of war. 

At the end of the day, the score is tallied and a winner is declared. The flagpole in the Inn’s courtyard waves the flag of the winning color at the very top until the next year’s event.

By all accounts, the first Blue & Blue Day was in 1908 and started in an effort to provide the school’s boarding population with an activity on a Saturday. Students played a football game and, interestingly, chose to wear dark blue or light blue jerseys, even though the school's colors were gold and dark brown at the time.

Initially, at the close of each team’s season, boys competed in their sport and parents were invited to watch. Football was usually the test game in the fall, with soccer and basketball in the winter, and baseball in the spring. If there was snow, skiing and sledding were added to the mix. There is no record of how the competition was scored. 

Around 1911, the student population increased and other games were introduced. When the boarding population dried up, the day became more of a field day and has operated as such uninterrupted since the 40s  (with a hiatus during the war years).

In 1967, math teacher and amateur bagpiper Bill Reeves began to lead the procession from the Jordan Building, picking up the other grades as they approached the field. When Reeves left the school resorted to hiring a bagpiper from the Irish club in Mt. Airy, from whence they are still hired. Fun fact: In 2006 senior Kevin Hines (son of Paul Hines) piped them in!

Team events (tugs of war, relays, basketball, capture the flag) are worth 5 points to the winning team. Races (hurdles, 50-yard dashes, and Mario Kart) award 3 points to first place, 2 points to second place, and 1 point to third place.  

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