The Rye Football team concludes the 2025 regular season with the annual rendition of ‘The Game’ scheduled for 1:30pm on Saturday, October 25, on the road at Harrison.
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For the game preview, we turn to the Steve “The OG” Feeney, the voice of Garnet football:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025 RYE GARNETS @ HARRISON HUSKIES 1:30PM
HUSKIES STILL GROWLING AFTER RYE’S 2024 24-0 SHUT OUT VICTORY
Yes folks, it’s the Rose Bowl of NYSPHSAA (New York State Public High School Athletic Association) Section One Football Games, having first been played in the 1920’s, and reconvening for the 98th time in 2025. Since the 2003 doubleheader, the Garnets have prevailed in twenty-two (22) of the twenty-five (25) battles vaulting Rye’s Garnets ahead in the rivalry count by a margin of 50-44-3 (.532). The Maroon and White dominated the series in the ‘70s and ‘90s, stashing a significant cushion of rivalry victories in the Huskies doghouse. It took the Garnet and Black forty-three (43) years to even the tally and then gain the upper paw for the first time since 1974.
It goes without question that this contest is the highlight Section One Class A Football Rivalry Game, and this season it continued to be properly placed in its rightful schedule position as the final regular season game preceding the onset of the post-season playoffs. You see a few years ago the student enrollment statistics for Rye bumped the Garnets back into Section One’s Class A, rejoining the Huskies, thereby facilitating the more traditional scheduling model.
Hey boys, it’s time to strap on the old leather helmets and cinch up the gnawed chin straps – you are not just representing yourselves, your classmates, and your schools, but generations of men and women in your towns who have come before you. Your predecessors had no facemasks in those bygone days.
Expect the usual standing room only crowd of over 5,000 fans for Saturday’s backyard bash. If you want prime seats, arrive early. If you want a parking space within a reasonable walking distance of McGillicuddy Field, arrive a day early. As the clock ticks toward 00:00, and the whistle blows on Westchester’s finest high school football rivalry game, is Harrison primed for a “shock-the-world” upset after being shut out 24-0 by the Garnets in 2024? Can Rye remain undefeated this regular season? Recall that in 1955 and 1960 the Huskies punctured Rye’s two thirty-three (33) game winning streaks with upsets that sent the Bedini Boys home in silent buses.
HUSKIES PLOW HUSKIES MEOW HUSKIES FOUL HUSKIES HOWL
GARNETS PROWL GARNETS GROWL GARNETS WOW GARNETS NOW
GARNETS 31 — HUSKIES 15
