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High school football, as an American tradition, is nearly as old as the American version of football. It began in Connecticut in 1875, with a game between Norwich Free Academy and New London High School. Today, high school football is played in all 50 states, Canada, and around the world on U.S. military bases. The southernmost high school in the continental United States, Key West High School, fields a football team (the Fighting Conchs), as does the northernmost

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