by Geoff Serra (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A photograph in the Norwich Free Academy archives offers insight into the nation’s longest-standing high-school football rivalry (a distinction verified by the National Football League). Fourteen members of the NFA’s 1898 football team dressed in quilted knicker-like pants, heavyweight knitted knee socks, and … Continue reading The Nation’s Oldest High-School Football Rivalry