I just checked it, Long Hill township also sends students even though they are Morris county
NJ Thanksgiving HS Rivalaries (go Lions)
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Were you a Bengal or a Destroyer? Dunellen class of 86 for me. You are right it was a great rivalry.
Don Bosco Prep and Bergen Catholic used to play each other on Thanksgiving Day back in the '70s and '80s. Not sure why they stopped. That was (and still is) a great rivalry!
Welcome to Camden County!Every town has it's own high school. You don't know these two towns!
OT but isn't Long Hill on the western edge of the Great Swamp, west of Chatham? Nice town.
They had a solid football program for their size when I was growing up. They were coached by Ted Amo.
Yes on the Great Swamp, not sure if East or West. It used to be called Passaic Township before the name change. People in that area still strongly identify with their section of the township: Gillette, Stirling, Millington, Meyersville, etc. You don't see that with other townships as much.
Midd North/south rivalry took a hit while I was there. A group of North players decided to cut down the sign in front of south and bring it to north. The jug heads cames down kings highway onto 35 south, cut through dunkin donuts to go back north on rt 35. Not joke a cop sitting in the donut shop saw the sign and nailed them. A whole group was suspended......but again cutting through a donut shop....getting caught by a cop......too funny.
Philly Inquirer
Football an integral part of Thanksgiving
Football an integral part of Thanksgiving
"Interestingly, the custom of joining football and Thanksgiving started in Philadelphia, a mere two weeks after Rutgers and Princeton had introduced this new, hybrid sport to the world. At noon on Thanksgiving Day, 1869, 11 men from the host Germantown Cricket Club met the Young America Cricket Club's footballers."
Long Hill Twsp was formerly called Passaic Township. It changed its name sometime in the 90's. It is comprised of Meyersville, Millington, Stirling and Gillette. It is on the south side of the great swamp and borders Chatham/Berkeley Heights to the east, Basking Ridge to the west and Warren and Watchung to the south. It is the southernmost point in Morris County, dipping down near Rt 78. The town is a mix of suburban and somewhat rural.
Watchung Hills feeds from Warren, Watchung, Greenbrook and LongHill.
Well aware. Have friends who teach there. The pool of football players has shrank dramatically.
New Providence and Governor Livingston (Berkeley Heights & Mountainside) play each year on Thanksgiving. Good rivalry between 2 schools that are just over a mile apart. The kids from NP & BH grow up playing each other in all sports. NP has dominated the series but GL won last year at NP. I'll be at GL tomorrow for the game. NP travels better than GL so there will be a strong contingent on the visitors side. Much of NP is actually closer to GL than Mountainside and a good portion of BH's.
Not a lot of Asian football players. Hard to field a team when 95% of the school is Asian.
2002... Not sure if they still do the bonfire...I remember the explosion in 2009
I don't like the names of these high schools.
Gov Livingston, David Brearly, Jonathan Dayton.
They should be called Mountainside High, Kenilworth High and Springfield High.
No one around the state knows where they are located without using a Google search.
Gov Livingston, David Brearly, Jonathan Dayton.
They should be called Mountainside High, Kenilworth High and Springfield High.
No one around the state knows where they are located without using a Google search.
I think when they went regional and took in several different towns they had to go with one name. My school (North Plainfield) played Kenilworth back in the 80s when they had guys like Tony Siragusa, Miller, Mike Chalenski and Brett Hubbinger. I don't know how they had so many big kids. Siragusa played both ways and kicked and punted. He straight-armed one of our guys on a fake punt TD run and I don't think we found the guy until graduation.
Oldest continuous public high school Thanksgiving rivalry is Wellesley vs. Needham (Massachusetts); series started in 1882. Oldest in NJ is Vineland-Millville.
I grew up as a kid when the Weequahic-Hillside rivalry (the Philip Roth Bowl)was going strong.
I grew up as a kid when the Weequahic-Hillside rivalry (the Philip Roth Bowl)was going strong.
What's Dunnellens squad looking like this year? Played them twice OOC 96-97
I went to Woodbridge High School and in the late 1950's we didn't have a Thanksgiving rival (The short lived WHS- Edison rivalry started in 1960). I believe it was 1958 and Woodbridge played a team from Bridgeton on Thanksgiving and they absolutely smoked our ***. Their qb and a few of their linemen were Japanese-Americans and they were outstanding. We didn't know much about Bridgeton other than that it was in the Jersey farm belt. . We learned a lot more than geography and farming that day.
Since 1927, Carteret vs Perth Amboy. Perth Amboy leads the series by a small margin at 45 - 41- 2. It's the oldest rivalry game in Middlesex County.
The Carteret Ramblers got their nickname when they didn't have their own field in the 1920's and had to "ramble" off to play their games on the road.
The Carteret Ramblers got their nickname when they didn't have their own field in the 1920's and had to "ramble" off to play their games on the road.
I think they play at Baruele (sic) Field by Eastside HS. Both schos have been playing there since Hinchliffe was condemned in 1997.
Joe P.
State playoffs have killed most of them here in PA also. Stroudsburg v. E. Stroudsburg finally ended last year after many years of playing twice per season.
My first football game at Rutgers stadium was the South River - New Brunswick Thanksgiving game in 1968. (Drew Pierson at QB for SR... Ended in a 7-7 tie.)
Will have to watch Easton - Phillipsburgh on TV tomorrow morning.
My first football game at Rutgers stadium was the South River - New Brunswick Thanksgiving game in 1968. (Drew Pierson at QB for SR... Ended in a 7-7 tie.)
Will have to watch Easton - Phillipsburgh on TV tomorrow morning.
This reminded me Manasquan is likely having their annual bond fire in a little whie so there'll be street closures. Need to go to the store now. Buh Bye.