Phillips Exeter Academy upends Phillips Academy in 143rd meeting between the New England prep schools

Outside of college football's Michigan-Ohio State and Harvard-Yale matchups, there's no other matchup that has lasted longer historically

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In college football, Harvard-Yale has taken place 139 times and Michigan-Ohio State have met a total of 119.

Neither matches up, though, to the number of meetings between New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy and Massachusetts' Andover Phillips Academy.

The two schools met for the 143rd edition of the prep school rivalry, with Phillips Exeter Academy pulling away with a 42-21 victory. The Lions built up a 35-0 lead and cruised from there for the big rivalry win.

This year will mark the 143rd playing of THE GAME between Exeter & Andover since 1878, the oldest prep school rivalry in American history. There’s Michigan-Ohio State, Harvard-Yale, Exeter-Andover. Come out for THE GAME!

🆚 Phillips Academy
📟 Saturday @ Andover
⏰ 3:00PM pic.twitter.com/px1f0gDQ7B

— ExeterFootball (@PEAFootball) November 8, 2024

Did you know Exeter is the only high school in history to have graduates go on to be the head football coach at Michigan, Ohio State, Harvard, and Yale?

— ExeterFootball (@PEAFootball) November 8, 2024

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When it comes to most played rivalries in the country, the Phillips Exeter Academy-Phillips Academy contest is just behind Connecticut's Norwich Free Academy-London High School, which both schools have met 155 times.

Over in Hawaii, Kamehameha and Punahou have been playing one another since 1903, meeting a total of 195 times.

Though when it comes down to prep schools, no other game compares to the one between Phillips Exeter Academy-Phillips Academy.

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