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What to Wear to the City-Poly Game: Football That Goes Way Back

 by Norah Worthington, Fashion Archives Intern, Summer 2018.

One of the most time honored traditions in Baltimore is the annual Baltimore City College versus Baltimore Polytechnic Institute football game. Sometimes played on Thanksgiving Day, and often played in Memorial, or later M & T Bank Stadium, the game is one of the oldest high school rivalries in the United States. According to James Chancellor Leonhart in his 1939 book One Hundred Years of Baltimore City College, the first City-Poly game was between the JV teams and was played in Clifton Park and City won it.1