My high school used to play in the same leagues as Englewood High, and we looked forwar to road trips to that school as much as we would have looked forward to road trips to Detroit.
I used to wrestle inner city kids from the suburbs of Cleveland.
A controlled level playing field does a lot to promote fairness.
But they would try to cheat all the time by putting Sulfa8 on their heads and crap. I would demand that the officials made them go wash that crap out.