Would they have won without the players who were put on the team through illegal boundaries? I doubt they would have made it very far, that’s why the adults did it. The kids have been let down by the adults, but they should not consider themselves champs, any more than the Bronx team that won with a kid who was too old.
Those kids and parents who lived out of the area knew they were cheating, these kids were old enough to know the rules and these kids talk to each other. The Chicago way yet again