The OG on Rye Football: The Game (#97) is Saturday, 3pm @ Nugent Stadium
Garnet Football (7-0) hosts The Game versus the Harrison Huskies this Saturday, October 26, 2024 for a 3:00pm kick off.
Miss our 2023 Rye Lifer interview with Rye football Coach Dino Garr? Read it! Want to hear Garr’s take on The Game? Read that too.
Other Notes @ The Game:
Going to the game? Make sure to adhere to Rye PD’s parking policy for Friday 10/25 and Saturday 10/26.
Not going? Watch the livestream at this link.
Jeff Provenzano (RHS ’94) will deliver the game ball via a skydiving stunt. Read more here.
For the game preview, we turn to the Steve “The OG” Feeney, the voice of Garnet football:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 HARRISON HUSKIES @ RYE GARNETS 3:00PM
HUSKIES INVADE ARCH-RIVAL SEEKING THIRD STRAIGHT VICTORY
GARNETS TARGETING REVERSAL OF STINGING 2022 & 2023 UPSET DEFEATS
Yes folks, it’s the granddaddy of Section One football games, having first been played in the 1920s, and reconvening for the 97th time in 2024. Since the 2003 doubleheader, the Garnets have prevailed in twenty-one (21) of the most recent twenty-four (24) battles vaulting Rye’s Garnets ahead in the rivalry by a count of 49-44-3 (.527). The Maroon and White dominated the series in the ‘70s and ‘90s, stashing a cushion of rivalry victories. It took the Garnet and Black forty-three (43) years to even the tally and then regain the upper paw for the first time since 1974.
It goes without question that this contest is the highlight Section One Football Rivalry Game, this year restored to its rightful schedule position as the final regular season game preceding the onset of the post-season playoffs.
You see the student enrollment statistics for Rye bumped the Garnets back into Section One Class A facilitating more traditional scheduling this season. Hey boys it’s time to strap on the old leather helmets and cinch up the chinstrap – you are now representing not just your schools and classmates, but generations of your communities in this one.
A standing-room only crowd of over 5,000 fans, including a skydiver, is predicted for Saturday’s backyard bash. If you want prime seats, arrive early. If you want a parking place within reasonable walking distance from Nugent, arrive even earlier. As the clock ticks toward zero and the whistle blows on Westchester’s finest high school football game, is Harrison primed for another upset? Can Rye remain undefeated currently having a seventeen (17) game unbeaten streak? Recall in 1955 and 1960 that the Huskies punctuated Rye’s two thirty-three (33) game winning streaks with upsets.
LAST WEEK THE HUSKERS – THIS WEEK THE HUSKIES
HUSKIES PLOW HUSKIES MEOW HUSKIES FOUL HUSKIES HOWL GARNETS 28
GARNETS PROWL GARNETS GROWL GARNETS GLOW GARNETS WOW HUSKIES 14
