Rivalries aren’t limited to college football. They exist at all levels of sport and prep school football holds some long and storied rivalries in Exeter vs. Andover, Kent vs. Loomis for the spoon…Always fun are the how’s and why’s of how a particular rivalry began.

On Worcester Academy‘s WA Mash is the story how a rivalry became a grudge and ended scheduling between Worcester and Groton School (How Worcester Academy Broke From Groton in Sports).

According to the author, Frank Callahan, Worcester used to play Groton School with the game ball going home with victor.

It seems that in 1906 Endicott Peabody (Groton’s well known founder and head) failed to return the game ball to game winner Worcester for the ride home. The next year, Worcester dropped Groton from its schedule and the two schools haven’t played since.

This made the Boston Globe in 1907.

Amazing. How about we settle it with cage match?

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