09-17-2010, 11:14 AM
Quote:Does WtF have a rivalry of any kind?
It seems to depend on the sport. The four "Tobacco Road" schools in the ACC -- Wake Forest, Duke, UNC and NC State -- have been competing in sports for a long time. Each one hates the other three.
Wake Forest & North Carolina played the first intercollegiate football game in North Carolina back in 1888.
Wake Forest & Duke are both private and were the first two schools to have basketball teams in North Carolina.
Wake Forest\'s rivalry with NC State is based on geography: when WF was located in Wake Forest, NC, it was just a few miles from Raleigh, home of NC State. WF & NC State have met more times in basketball than any other ACC matchup and the schools\' once traditional baseball game on the Monday after Easter led to that day being declared a state holiday so all the state legislators could take time off and go watch.
Bonus trivia question: Which two athletes are WF\'s best-known grads? (Hint: One is pretty old and the other died young.)
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