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Arlington’s Friday Night Lights

Published: November 2, 2010

Arlington and Fairfax have a football rivalry that goes back many years!

The insert to the game program for the Washington-Liberty (formerly Washington-Lee) Generals/Fairfax Rebels football game on Friday, Sept. 11, 1964, reads:

“The Generals are defending their Northern Virginia Championship tonight when they come up against their first and one of the toughest teams of the season – the Fairfax Rebels.

“Fairfax’s 18 returning lettermen that helped leave last year’s game scoreless will be W-L’s biggest headache. General Coach John Youngblood also feels Fairfax is going to have the heaviest team in the league.

“Coach Youngblood claims that depth is the team’s problem and that he will be depending on half a dozen men to play both ways… [b]ut Coach Youngblood is optimistic about the whole thing. ‘We will beat them if we can manage to get more points.'”

What About You?

What are your Arlington high school football memories? We want to hear from you!

November 2, 2010 by Web Editor Filed Under: Center for Local History, News Archive, Our Back Pages Tagged With: local history news

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  1. Anonymous says

    November 5, 2010 at 6:49 AM

    WHAT WAS THE FINAL SCORE?

  2. The Librarians says

    December 6, 2010 at 5:48 AM

    Sorry this took so long to answer – it turns out that we don't have the 1964 Washington-Lee yearbook in our collection! Unfortunately, Coach Youngblood's optimism wasn't enough – the Fairfax Rebels beat the Washington-Lee Generals, 7-0.

  3. Julia says

    January 19, 2011 at 5:09 PM

    My favorite Arlington football memories was usually the W-L/Yorktown games when I was a high school student. Yorktown usually blew out W-L badly. Ironically now I live around the corner from W-L and can hear their football games every fall.

  4. Anonymous says

    April 3, 2011 at 7:39 PM

    I grew up on N. 13th St. just a block and a half from the front entrance of Washington-Lee High School. I attended many football games and especially loved the big bonfires in the fall. W-L General alumni, 1960

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