The first big all-Arlington rivalry high-school football game of the 2023 season is Friday night, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. between the host Wakefield Warriors and Yorktown Patriots in a Liberty District clash.
Yorktown will take a 2-0 record into the contest. Wakefield is 0-2, and will try to snap a 13-game losing streak that spans three seasons.
Wakefield has not defeated Yorktown since the 1995 season, winning 30-7 that year. The last time the Warriors won against Yorktown at Wakefield was in 1986, 13-3.
Recently, the games between the two have been one-sided. Yorktown won 38-0 last fall.
The district contest will be the first for both teams this season.
Wakefield finished 0-10 last fall, but is scoring more points this season, tallying 20 and 14 in its first two games.
“Wakefield is improved this season,” Yorktown coach Bruce Hanson said.
The following week – Thursday night, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. – Yorktown hosts the Washington-Liberty Generals (2-0) in another all-Arlington showdown. Yorktown also has defeated W-L the last few years.
Wakefield then plays at Washington-Liberty in a final regular-season contest on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. to conclude the games this season between the three Arlington public-school rivals.
