As always, there are multiple neighborhood high-school football rivalry games scheduled this season involving Arlington teams.
The first is Friday, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. when the Yorktown Patriots host the Wakefield Warriors. The next comes the following Friday at the same time, when the Washington-Liberty Generals host Yorktown.
Wakefield and Washington-Liberty meet the last week of the regular season on Nov. 8 at Wakefield.
Washington-Liberty defeated Yorktown and Wakefield a year ago to win the Arlington County championship, an unofficial competition between the three public-school teams. Yorktown outscored Wakefield in that outing.
The private-school Bishop O’Connell Knights are the other Arlington team. Their big local rivalry game is against the St. Paul VI Catholic Panthers in a Metro Division Washington Catholic Athletic Conference clash. Again this fall, that contest is a regular-season finale like many previous years, on Saturday, Nov. 9 at noon at O’Connell.
One new local rivalry that could become a future keeper is a Saturday, Sept. 21 showdown between the host Potomac School Panthers and O’Connell. The private schools are located just a few miles apart, but have never met in football.
