Talk:English–Latin football rivalry

Oldest?

The Andover/Exeter rivalry started in 1878, and was reported in both the November 13, 2004 USA Today and the November 13, 2005 Boston Sunday Globe as being "The nation's oldest continuous prep school rivalry" and the "nation's longest consecutive schoolboy rivalry", respectively. That being said, the rivalry has missed a few years (this year was the 125th meeting, but the 127th year of the rivalry) but was still qualified as "continuous," i believe, due to the fact that in each of these cases it resumed play the following year. In any case, it certainly deserves a mention in the intro at the very least, as the andover/exeter rivalry is older than the latin/english, whether or not it is continuous.jfg284 ^{you were saying?} 13:32, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Latin/English is actually the third oldest rivalry overall, but it's the longest streak of yearly meetings. That was said in the article, wasn't it? Since this seems to be a low tread area, i'm removing the tag now. karmafist 11:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll head over to the Help Desk on this one. karmafist 18:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Scoreless victory?

The article refers to a 0-0 game as a scoreless victory. Is this just an unusual error is was there actually a rule that gave one side the win in that situation somehow?

(09:00 UTC, December 16, 2005)

The score of at least one of the games is incorrect. The 1966 game was won by English. I know this because the Latin School class of 1973 had the distinction of being the first class to have Latin win all the games during the 6 years we attended the school. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.224.225.210 (talk) 02:09, 24 November 2010 (UTC)