A case of blacks and white // Simeon has new look in transfer McCarthy

Ken McCarthy saw blue and gold, not black and white.

"I've always heard about Simeon and was impressed by their tradition," McCarthy said. "If I was going to go to a public school in the city, I wanted to play with the best. I don't care what color they are."

In this case, McCarthy is not talking about the school colors.

See, this 6-3, 185-pound white, Irish football player has enrolled at all-black Simeon on Chicago's South Side.

He is the first white student to enroll at Simeon since the school opened in 1963, assistant principal John Everett…