Football Tradition
State Titles: 4- 1960(AA), 1961(AA), 1977(AA), 1981(AAA) Region Titles: 7- 1960, 1961, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1989
Waycross High School's biggest rivalry in its existence was with cross county school Ware County High. Quite possibly the greatest game played between the two, in the 1977 State Championship season's final regular season game #1 Ware County and #2 Waycross faced off at Memorial Stadium. The only score of the game was a second quarter FG by Waycross' Ricky Chaney. Waycross upset the #1 team 3-0 and went on to defeat Ware County yet again, the very next week, 28-7 in the Region Championship game. Waycross won 4 state football titles, Ware County has yet to win one. However, since Waycross High no longer exists and Ware County is the result of the merger, it could be said that Ware County has won 4 state football titles.
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Famous quotes containing the words football and/or tradition:
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)