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Annual football game. The oldest independent school league rivalry in the U.S. [2] [10] Boston Latin School English High School 83–38–13 1887; 138 years ago () Annual Thanksgiving football game. It was the oldest continuous high school football rivalry in the U.S. until being cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. English won the ...
Lawn tennis began to gain popularity in the United States during the late 19th century. The first U.S. National Championships, which later became the U.S. Open, were held in 1881. Harry Wright, a prominent baseball player and manager, was instrumental in the development of baseball as a professional sport. He managed the Cincinnati Red ...
ATP Championship Series (1990–1995) ATP Super 9 (1995–1999) Tennis Masters Series (2000–2001) European Indoor Championships: 1990: 1991: Berlin: Carpet: ATP Tour Fort Worth WCT: 1975: 1976: Fort Worth: Hard: World Championship Tennis Frankfurt Cup: 1987: 1989: Frankfurt: Carpet: Grand Prix Frankfurt Grand Prix: 1980: 1982: Frankfurt ...
The "Axe" game has been played since 1932 and is the longest high school rivalry game in the High Desert of Southern California. Barstow High School leads the series 51-44-4. [12] The Jackrabbits have played in two CIF-SS Championships. The first was in 1966 against Lawndale High School, which they lost 19-7.
Historic sports rivalries for GHS over the years have included: Reidsville High School in the 1920s and '30s, High Point Central High School in the late 1930s through the early 1950s, R. J. Reynolds High School, in Winston-Salem from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, and Walter Hines Page Senior High School in Greensboro since the mid-1960s. This ...
The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for junior and senior high schools in the state of Ohio. It conducts state championship competitions in all the OHSAA-sanctioned sports.
In other sports, there is no grade restriction; for example, former NBA player O. J. Mayo first played on a high school varsity team as a seventh-grader at Rose Hill Christian School in Ashland, and current PGA Tour golfer JB Holmes first played on the golf team of Taylor County High School in Campbellsville while in the third grade. [25]
The oldest of the rating systems, the National Sports News Service, was begun by Arthur H. "Art" Johlfs—who originally started naming champions informally in 1927 as a 21 year old high school coach and official, [2] but did so more formally starting in 1959 [3] after enlarging his network of supporting hobbyists [2] to receive reports from six separate areas of the country. [4]