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439 Washington Street Dedham, MA 02026 Inside This Issue
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Dogs Don’t Outgrow Halloween
Sometimes, They (Insurance Companies) Need to See It to Believe It!
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The Scooters Are Coming
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The Gift of Giving
Paleo Stuffing
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Pigskin and Turkey Meat
A Massachusetts Tradition for Over a Century Thanksgiving and High School Football
furor that ensued last year when games were moved to Wednesday. Due to the weather forecast, which called for a brutally cold Thanksgiving, many teams felt it prudent to reschedule. In some cases, townwide revolt led programs to return the games to their originally scheduled time. A lot of folks, it seems, would rather brave the cold than not be able to watch their team on Thanksgiving morning. Whether you attend a game in person, watch on TV, or listen on the radio, odds are that high school football is a part of your Thanksgiving experience. No matter who you root for, here’s wishing them luck against their rival this year.
played continuously, which means that Boston Latin and English hold the record for the longest running rivalry, dating back to 1887. In fact, that game, which recently got a lot more competitive when English merged with New Mission to create a co-op football program, is the oldest running high school football rivalry of any kind in the country. It would be impossible to list all the games that have followed in the wake of these early rivalries. Dozens of schools have been meeting for decades, and, if you went to high school in the state, there’s a good chance you remember exactly who you played on Thanksgiving.
Everyone associates football with Thanksgiving, and in most of the country, the NFL takes top billing on turkey day. If you live in Massachusetts, though, you know the Lions and the Cowboys got nothing on the countless high schoolers suiting up for rivalry games across the state. High school football is a Thanksgiving tradition celebrated from Nauset to Newburyport and has been around longer than anyone reading this newsletter has been alive. No wonder it feels as integral a part of the holiday as pumpkin pie. The earliest known Thanksgiving day high school football game in Massachusetts took place in 1882 between Wellesely and Needham. However, that game has not been
If you want to know what a big deal the tradition is, all you have to do is look at the
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