Woburn Beats Winchester in Thanksgiving Football Game
108th meeting between the rivals goes to Woburn.
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For the 108th time in history, the Woburn Tanners took on the Winchester Sachems on Thanksgiving Day. The traditional football game belonged to Woburn, as the Tanners won 32-14.
The Sachems dominated the first quarter, scoring twice for a 14-0 lead. But the second belonged to Woburn. The Tanners scored 20 points in the second quarter, ending the half at 20-14.
Woburn won the ball to start the second and continued to dominate.
WMHS player Pat Doherty grabbed a five-yard touchdown in the third, bringing the score to 26-14 (the two-point conversion failed).
The Tanners began to pull away in the late third, going into the fourth with the score remaining 26-14.
Woburn scored again in the fourth, 32-14 with 8:29 left in the game. Woburn held on, winning the game 32-14.
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Game notes:
- The rivalry began in 1891. The record now stands at 52-44-12 (Winchester).
- Woburn also dominated last year, winning the game 56-0.
- Woburn now has a record of 3-8 for the 2012 season.
josh mcdaniels
5:18 pm on Thursday, November 22, 2012
Good for woburn winchester is a town full of doosh pickles and snobby ass people woburn has a balance of what a city should be. Never mind the athletes they have year after year. Winchester should move to new hampshire and hang out with mitty romney that skeez
quasimodo
8:19 pm on Thursday, November 22, 2012
Actually, josh, Winchester voted in a majority for Obama. Shows how well informed you are.
Big Dog
7:03 am on Friday, November 23, 2012
Josh, are you capable of writing a complete and coherent sentence? BTW: please get the leaves and dog poop by the back fence when you come to clean my yard.
Jack Marion
2:49 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012
Thank you for the article, Danielle and for the nice pics. :)