Texas High School opens 60 Million Dollar Football Stadium

[Patroklos]

Because the farmers were too busy farming, but their kids were not (especially when law required them to attend school). Those schools and their events, participated in by the children of all the local families, became lightning rods for social interaction.

[downtown]

Didn't HS football start in the northeast? I know college football did, and that came first.

[VRWCAgent]

Just did a yahoo search (google is evil, yo) and first hit was...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school_football

High school football, also referred to as prep football or preps football, dates back to the late 19th century, concurrent with the start of many college football programs. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many college and high school teams played against one another.

However this link is more pertinent to your question, and seems to back up your assumption with CT, MA, and NH having the absolutely oldest HS football rivalries.

List of high school football rivalries (100 years+)

[Save_Ferris]

Well, what do we do about it? A lot of threads here seem to complain about problems with no solution.

[VRWCAgent]

What's the problem here?

[Delinquent]

Honestly, what's the problem?

[JollyRoger]

Originally Posted by VRWCAgent

What's the problem here?

If I understand the non-football-stadium thinking of many pro-stadium Allen residents, those that voted for the bonds stealing from those that didn't.

[_random_]

Originally Posted by azzaman333

But why high school or college sport? Why don't the towns have a local sporting club that they can get behind that encompasses all ages? Why is it limited to people still receiving education?

Basically, why are the educational institutions running the sport, rather than a separate local entity?

That's just the way it developed in America. I don't think it's particularly better or worse than any other model.

[Save_Ferris]

Originally Posted by VRWCAgent

What's the problem here?

Ask Camikaze.

[Formaldehyde]

The problem is that Texas is a C state in academics with an A+ in idolizing high school jocks. In other words, it is much like the rest of the country only more so.

[Owen Glyndwr]

Originally Posted by downtown

I know voters tend to get mad when schools spend money on buying turf, but that actually saves taxpayers money over the long run. If you only have one field for soccer/football/marching band, the grass will get torn up every season. When I covered HS football in Ohio, officials told us that grounds treatment each offseason costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, where turf requires minimal upkeep. In a few years, the turf pays for itself.

Incidentally, turf is like the worst thing to march on ever. EVER.