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There are several dozen high school football rivalries in the United States that are more than 100 years old. The oldest ongoing rivalry is between two Connecticut high schools, Norwich Free Academy in Norwich and New London High School in New London. The ongoing annual rivalry between Norwich Free Academy and New London High School began in ...
Series LeaderSeries RivalSeries RecordSeries BeganNorwich Free Academy ( Norwich, ...New London High School ( New London, ...78–66–111875; 149 years ago ( 1875)Phillips Academy Andover ( Andover, ...Phillips Exeter Academy ( Exeter, New ...74–54–101878; 146 years ago ( 1878)Wellesley High School ( Wellesley, ...Needham High School ( Needham, ...65–60–91882; 142 years ago ( 1882)Fordham Preparatory School ( The Bronx )Xavier High School ( New York City )49–39–31883; 141 years ago ( 1883)- Boston Latin-Boston English. Classic.
- Needham-Wellesley
- Fitchburg-Leominster
- Norwich Free Academy vs. New London
- In NH, It Starts in Little League
- Cony, Gardiner and … Chizzle Wizzle?
- Vermont’s ‘The Game’
- Three Miles Apart
- Andover vs. Exeter
- Massachusetts High School Football Rivalries
Before the Civil War, football was more of an excuse for a brawl than an actual game. But then a more organized version evolved. Boys from East Coast prep schools began to play what they called the Boston Game, something of a cross between rugby and soccer. Then a group of students from Boston schools, including Boston Latin and English High, forme...
Five years before Latin and English went after each other on the gridiron, Needham and Wellesley high school athletes played their first game. The rivalry started when West Needham and East Needham split up in 1881 amidst a bitter controversy. They took their high schools with them, so West Needham became Wellesley. On Thanksgiving Day in 1882, the...
In 1898, the eighth Fitchburg and Leominster game went to a 0-0 score until the last two minutes. Then Fitchburg scored on a punt return — with the help of the hometown crowd, which kept any tacklers away from the ball carrier. The referee ruled the game a scoreless tie. The next day the Fitchburg Sentinel had the audacity to report a win with the ...
Six years after the first ever collegiate football game, two Connecticut high schools started the longest high school football rivalry in history: Norwich Free Academy and New London High School. Ulysses S. Grant was president. It started on May 12, 1875, and it hasn’t been continuous. But it has been fierce, with faculty sometimes playing as ringe...
On New Hampshire’s Seacoast, boys start hearing about the epic rivalry between Dover High and Rochester’s Spaulding High when they’re in Little League. In 2011, 30,000 fans watched the teams compete in a playoff match. One long-tenured Rochester coach brought such intensity to the game that the Dover players believed he spied on their practices fro...
“Chizzle Wizzle, Chizzle Wizzle, sis boom bah! Cony High, Cony High, rah, rah, rah!” That cheer for Augusta’s Cony High School Rams inspired students in 1892 to form the “Chizzle Wizzle Association” to raise money for the team. The Rams faced the Gardiner Tigers that year in their first of many games. Miss Aldine Holmes kicked off the first Chizzle...
In Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom they just call it ‘The Game’ – the St. Johnsbury Academy Hilltoppers vs. the Lyndon Institute Vikings. In 2013, a USA Todaysurvey of the country’s greatest high school football rivalries. ‘The Game’ won the Vermont, New England and Eastern regions and finished fourth in the United States. Sometimes thousands of fans a...
No two high school football teams have played as many games against each other as Westerly High in Rhode Island and Stonington High in Connecticut. Though in different states, the schools are only about three miles apart. They’ve played against each other since 1911, and in 1913 they started playing on Thanksgiving as well as during the regular sea...
Two of the greatest ever football coaches played in one of the greatest ever high school football rivalries. Amos Alonzo Stagg suited up for Phillips Exeter’s Big Rednearly a hundred years before Bill Belichick played center for Phillips Andover’s Big Blue. Stagg probably had to take a stagecoach for away games. Belichick was there in 1971 when som...
Phillips Andover Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy (New Hampshire) since 1878. Wellesley High School and Needham High School since 1882. Milton Academy and Noble and Greenough School (Dedham) since 1886. Boston English High School and Boston Latin High School since 1887. Malden High School and Medford High School since 1889. Winchester High Schoo...
May 7, 2020 · Wellesley, Massachusetts: Oldest Football Rivalry Rock. Engraved boulder marks the spot where Wellesley played Needham on Thanksgiving Day, 1882 -- an annual football rivalry game that's still played today.
- 525 Washington St., Wellesley, MA
Nov 17, 2022 · The Massachusetts high school football rivalry between Malden and Medford dates back to 1889, making it the second-oldest continuous high school football rivalry in the country.
- Shaun Chaiyabhat
- 32 Pearl Street, Malden, 02148
Nov 17, 2011 · One of the oldest rivalries in the country — Beverly dominated in the first-ever recorded 1891 game at Beverly Common on Nov. 16, 1891. The epic rivalry will continue at the 113th annual...
- Kevin Letourneau
Nov 22, 2017 · For that match-up, you have to head to suburban Boston, where the Wellesley Raiders and Needham Rockets have been squaring off on Thanksgiving Day since 1882. Bill Tracey’s institutional memory...
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Oct 19, 2022 · What is the oldest high school rivalry in Central Mass.? Chances are that nobody would guess Gardner-Murdock, but it is. Teams from Toy Town and the Chair City played their first game on Oct. 7...
