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Andover–Exeter rivalry
1903 poster announcing football game.
Teams
First meeting1878
Andover 22, Exeter 0
Latest meeting2024
Exeter 42, Andover 21
Statistics
All-time recordAndover leads, 75–58–10 (.559)
Largest victoryExeter, 78–7 (1914)
Longest win streakAndover 8 (1905–1912)
Current win streakExeter 4 (2021–present)

The Andover–Exeter rivalry, or Exeter–Andover rivalry, is an athletic rivalry between Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter) and Phillips Academy (Andover), two New England boarding schools founded by members of the Phillips family during the Revolutionary era. The academies have competed athletically since 1861, and contest the nation's second-oldest high school football rivalry. The two teams have produced nineteen members of the College Football Hall of Fame.

History

Background

Institutionally, the Andover-Exeter rivalry bears certain similarities to the Harvard–Yale rivalry. Due to religious differences between the two schools (Andover was Calvinist, Exeter Unitarian), they traditionally focused on sending students to Calvinist Yale and Unitarian Harvard, respectively. Since then, the religious distinctions have faded but the academies continue to compete for prestige and prospective students. In 2022, Andover reportedly used Niche's high school rankings (Andover was #1 at the time) to taunt Exeter students during a game. The two academies have both held the #1 ranking at various points during the 21st century.

According to Andover, the academies have played each other in sports since 1861, although another source asserts that students did not organize Andover-Exeter games until 1865 and the academies did not formally sponsor competition until 1873. The baseball rivalry began when Exeter defeated Andover 11–1 on May 22, 1878; Andover returned the favor 10 days later, beating Exeter 10–8. The following school year, the football series began when Andover beat Exeter 22–0 on November 2, 1878; it is the nation's second-oldest high school football rivalry and oldest private school rivalry. In addition, Andover, Exeter, and Lawrenceville were the first secondary schools to sponsor lacrosse teams, starting in 1882.

Football

Due to their age and early adoption of organized football, the academies have made extensive contributions to American college football.

Exeter has educated ten members of the College Football Hall of Fame, more than any other high school in the nation. Amos Alonzo Stagg (1885) was one of the first football pioneers at the University of Chicago, back when Chicago played top-level college sports. Six-time national championship-winning coach Howard Jones (1905) attended Exeter for a year after transferring from Ohio's Middletown High School. The other Exonians in the Hall of Fame are four-time All-American Marshall Newell (1890), 1927 national championship-winning coach Tad Jones (1905; Howard's brother), three-time All-American James Hogan (1901), Ed Hart (1907), Eddie Casey (1915), Lee McClung (1888), Jim McCormick (1904), and Donold Lourie (1918).

Andover has also produced several notable football figures, including at least nine College Football Hall of Famers, such as four-time All-American Frank Hinkey, three-time All-American Eddie Mahan, 1903 national championship-winning coach Art Hillebrand, John Kilpatrick (also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame), Murray Shelton, Ted Coy, Bob Fisher, Dick Duden, and Belford West. In addition, Andover alumnus William G. Little founded the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, and longtime New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick attended Andover for a year.

In addition, an early flashpoint in amateurism rules took place in 1889, when Andover paid a player $200 (roughly $6,800 in 2024 dollars) to play football, and Exeter convinced him to change teams by offering him $300; the resulting controversy prompted the cancellation of the 1889 game. Most notably, in 1893, Exeter beat Andover after hiring 27-year-old professional athlete Pooch Donovan to play football; the following week, Donovan played college football for Georgetown. In retaliation, Andover stopped playing football with Exeter (even though Andover's quarterback was allegedly a professional himself). After a short-lived attempt to make New Jersey's Lawrenceville School its rival, Andover agreed to play Exeter again in 1896.

Football matches

Year Andover Exeter Winner
1878 22 0 Andover
1879 0 18 Exeter
1880 8 8 Tie
1881 6 0 Andover
1882 12 0 Andover
1883 17 6 Andover
1884 11 8 Andover
1885 11 33 Exeter
1886 0 26 Exeter
1887 4 44 Exeter
1888 10 0 Andover
1889 No Game
1890 16 0 Andover
1891 26 10 Andover
1892 18 28 Exeter
1893 10 26 Exeter
1894 No Game
1895 No Game
1896 28 9 Andover
1897 14 18 Exeter
1898 0 0 Tie
1899 17 0 Andover
1900 0 10 Exeter
1901 0 5 Exeter
1902 29 1 Andover
1903 11 14 Exeter
1904 10 35 Exeter
1905 28 0 Andover
1906 6 0 Andover
1907 9 6 Andover
1908 12 0 Andover
1909 3 0 Andover
1910 21 0 Andover
1911 23 5 Andover
1912 7 0 Andover
1913 0 59 Exeter
1914 7 78 Exeter
1915 7 37 Exeter
1916 0 6 Exeter
1917 0 3 Exeter
1918 7 26 Exeter
1919 19 0 Andover
1920 6 3 Andover
1921 3 34 Exeter
1922 3 12 Exeter
1923 7 7 Tie
1924 0 10 Exeter


Year Andover Exeter Winner
1925 0 0 Tie
1926 20 3 Andover
1927 0 0 Tie
1928 18 0 Andover
1929 7 14 Exeter
1930 20 16 Andover
1931 12 15 Exeter
1932 0 6 Exeter
1933 6 7 Exeter
1934 7 6 Andover
1935 0 7 Exeter
1936 12 7 Andover
1937 20 15 Andover
1938 14 6 Andover
1939 6 12 Exeter
1940 2 20 Exeter
1941 14 13 Andover
1942 12 0 Andover
1943 6 12 Exeter
1944 20 0 Andover
1945 18 7 Andover
1946 7 6 Andover
1947 6 12 Exeter
1948 28 7 Andover
1949 34 21 Andover
1950 6 27 Exeter
1951 7 7 Tie
1952 59 0 Andover
1953 14 7 Andover
1954 31 6 Andover
1955 14 12 Andover
1956 6 45 Exeter
1957 45 6 Andover
1958 40 6 Andover
1959 16 6 Andover
1960 18 18 Tie
1961 18 8 Andover
1962 6 6 Tie
1963 8 9 Exeter
1964 7 31 Exeter
1965 0 8 Exeter
1966 6 26 Exeter
1967 20 6 Andover
1968 12 22 Exeter
1969 27 0 Andover
1970 34 8 Andover
1971 20 30 Exeter


Year Andover Exeter Winner
1972 19 6 Andover
1973 32 0 Andover
1974 7 28 Exeter
1975 33 20 Andover
1976 0 15 Exeter
1977 28 6 Andover
1978 8 14 Exeter
1979 24 7 Andover
1980 14 6 Andover
1981 7 12 Exeter
1982 17 6 Andover
1983 28 6 Andover
1984 12 26 Exeter
1985 7 21 Exeter
1986 0 15 Exeter
1987 14 13 Andover
1988 21 12 Andover
1989 14 12 Andover
1990 16 0 Andover
1991 33 14 Andover
1992 6 0 Andover
1993 21 28 Exeter
1994 20 20 Tie
1995 6 3 Andover
1996 3 0 Andover
1997 35 0 Andover
1998 7 12 Exeter
1999 19 7 Andover
2000 6 13 Exeter
2001 48 15 Andover
2002 14 14 Tie
2003 0 44 Exeter
2004 12 28 Exeter
2005 24 8 Andover
2006 43 14 Andover
2007 24 14 Andover
2008 13 21 Exeter
2009 14 31 Exeter
2010 33 56 Exeter
2011 6 39 Exeter
2012 9 35 Exeter
2013 13 12 Andover
2014 13 12 Andover
2015 29 14 Andover
2016 16 7 Andover
2017 17 14 Andover
2018 14 0 Andover


Year Andover Exeter Winner
2019 14 13 Andover
2020 No Game
2021 6 37 Exeter
2022 7 42 Exeter
2023 20 47 Exeter
2024 21 42 Exeter

  1. Although some sources have said that Little attended Exeter, the University of Alabama and Andover itself both say that Little attended Andover.
  2. The 1889 game was canceled as a result of a brawl following a baseball game between the two schools earlier in the year.
  3. ^ In late 1893, Andover cut athletic ties with Exeter in a dispute over the eligibility of certain Exeter athletes, in particular star football player Pooch Donovan. Relations were not restored until 1896.
  4. Canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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