November 26, 2014
Warren Beatty, a standout football player at Washington-Lee High School, starred in the Old Oaken Bucket games in the mid-1950s.
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From George Washington High School’s opening in 1935 until 1968, Thanksgiving mornings were synonymous with the pinnacle matchup of Virginia high school football. Residents and visitors braved plummeting temperatures and postponed culinary preparations to attend the grand spectacle of talent and grit known as the Old Oaken Bucket rivalry between GW and Arlington’s Washington-Lee High School.
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