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Post by bulldog1974 on Aug 27, 2009 14:49:31 GMT -5
I agree it's died down some. When I was in school in the mid 80's, it seemed to be tamed down some from when my brother was there in the early 80's. We still got the announcement from the principal every time we played E.P or Leetonia away " don't walk around unless you have to, and if you do , go in groups of at least five". That was pretty scarey for a 15 year old kid to hear. My senior year the ONLY team we beat was Leetonia. But that was good enough for us Because we HATED them. What I remember the most of the rivalry is the Ep version of the Clipper fightsong....I still know it... |
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Post by itcl fan on Aug 30, 2009 20:13:50 GMT -5
It would easily have to be Columbiana/Leetonia or Columbiana- E.P. These teams have been playing high school football against each other since there WAS high school football. Crestview and S.R have really good teams, and could beat anyone on any given friday. They are very tough teams to prepair for. But if you want deep rooted, traditional, hard core football rivals that go back nearly 100 years then you know my picks. Dogs and Clips, this rivalry has lost a little luster in the recent past, but from what I hear, this year is going to be remeniscent of the high school days of Bulldog1974 and Clipper1970....and it was reborn with the FOUL in basketball..and ensuing comments.....It's about time...this is one of the oldest rivalries in the state of Ohio, although, some years were not documented, it is locally known as the 2nd oldest and all local fans of both communities OUR age know that! For those who do not know, Ep and Columbiana have a traveling trophy which is a coveted item and is older that Clipper1970....that is the old merchant's trophy that is passed between the two schools in football and basketball...and guess where it has spent most of it's existance? EP!!!!  in Columbiana High school they have a chart of the years of who has had the trophy and actually columbiana has three traveling trophys EP Crestview and Leetonia and columbiana has themmm all the longest except crestview but that could be up for change with the way columbiana handled SCC. |
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