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American football is one of the many traditions in American culture that is associated with Thanksgiving Day. Virtually every level of football, from amateur and high school to college and the NFL (including the CFL on Canadian Thanksgiving ), plays football on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday) or the immediately following holiday weekend (Friday ...
The game resumed in 1928 and was played continuously on Thanksgiving Day through 1974. While not the only Thanksgiving football game in Missouri during its early existence, the state's high school athletic commission shut down most others (one prominent example being the Mineral Water Bowl in Excelsior Springs) after 1950, while leaving the Kirkwood–Webster Groves game intact.
The Ottawa Pirates and LaSalle-Peru Cavaliers are one of the longest football rivalries in the State of Illinois still active. La Salle-Peru won the 2021 spring meeting 34–6 and the fall contest 28–0. Webster Groves High School ( Webster Groves, Missouri ) Kirkwood High School ( Kirkwood, Missouri ) 58–51–7.
Overall record: Groton 78 , St. Mark's 45, 2 ties. Though not specifically a Thanksgiving rivalry, St. Mark's' longstanding season-ending game against the Groton School serves a similar purpose ...
Portsmouth vs. Middletown at Gaudet Middle School, 10 a.m. When the teams started playing this game, it wasn’t much of rivalry. Generally in those, the other team has a chance, and through 1976 ...
Westfield handles Plainfield for 11th straight season in rivalry game that began in 1900, plus Phillipsburg topped Easton, Roselle Park beats Roselle
During the 1910s, the Ohio League stopped holding Thanksgiving games because many of its players coached high school teams and were unavailable. This was not the case in other regional circuits: in 1919, the New York Pro Football League featured a Thanksgiving matchup between the Buffalo Prospects and the Rochester Jeffersons. The game ended in ...
More: Blue Hills football survives test from Bristol-Plymouth in Thanksgiving Eve showdown South Shore Tech 41, Holbrook/Avon 30: The Vikings improve to 6-5 while the Bulldogs fall to 4-7.