High School Football Returns To Silver Spring: See The Schedule

SILVER SPRING, MD — Montgomery County residents can expect a regular football season this year. It's been a two-year wait for the return of Friday night fall football in many American communities, where gathering at the local high school stadium has become a long-standing early school year tradition.

In Montgomery County, the high school football season was put on hold last year and then abridged into a three-game season in the spring. But in 2021, all the big rivalries this time of year are back.

Blair, Blake, Wheaton, Kennedy, Northwood and Springbrook High School have all played their first games already — Blair, Blake and Springbrook High School captured their first win, while Wheaton, Kennedy and Northwood suffered their first loss.

Blair, Wheaton, Northwood and Kennedy are rivals with each other and Einstein High School the Montgomery County Public Schools athletics office said. Springbrook and Blake are rivals with each other and Paint Branch High School, and Blair High School sees Paint Branch High School as a rival too.

In some places, such as Illinois, high school football is making a return to the fall after a 2020 season that was largely put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Instead of taking the field last fall, many schools held football season in the spring — which, on school sports calendars, can run anywhere from February through June.

In Illinois, that meant abbreviated six-game schedules and no playoffs. It wasn't exactly the time of year when prep sports enthusiasts are accustomed to getting behind their alma mater on the gridiron.

This year, the season has already begun in some states.

Fall football season at the high school level has already kicked off in Alaska and Utah, according to MaxPreps.com, a site covering high school athletics nationwide. Sixteen more states will begin contests on the weekend of Aug. 20-21, with others set to begin either the final weekend of August or in early September.

Schedules

Blair High School

9/3

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Magruder (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Blair High School
• (W) 27 - 7

9/10

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Einstein (Kensington, MD)
• Location: Einstein High School

9/17

• 7 p.m. vs. Northwood (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Blair High School

9/24

• 7 p.m. vs. Paint Branch (Burtonsville, MD)
• Location: Paint Branch High School

10/1

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Blake (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Blake High School

10/8

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Rockville (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Blair High School

10/15

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Sherwood (Sandy Spring, MD)
• Location: Blair High School

10/22

• 7 p.m. vs. Wheaton (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

10/29

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Bethesda-Chevy Chase (Bethesda, MD)
• Location: Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

Blake High School

9/3

• vs. Northwood (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Northwood High School
• (W) 60 - 0

9/10

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Churchill (Potomac, MD)
• Location: Blake High School

9/17

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Sherwood (Sandy Spring, MD)
• Location: Blake High School

9/24

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Watkins Mill (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Location: Watkins Mill High School

10/1

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Blair (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Blake High School

10/8

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Paint Branch (Burtonsville, MD)
• Location: Paint Branch High School

10/15

• 7 p.m. vs. Wheaton (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

10/22

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Einstein (Kensington, MD)
• Location: Blake High School

10/29

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Springbrook (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Blake High School

Wheaton High School

9/3

• vs. Sherwood (Sandy Spring, MD)
• Location: Sherwood High School
• (L) 50 - 6

9/10

• 7 p.m. vs. Northwood (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

9/17

• 7 p.m. vs. Frederick (Frederick, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

9/24

• 7 p.m. vs. Walter Johnson (Bethesda, MD)
• Location: Walter Johnson High School

10/1

• 7 p.m. vs. Paint Branch (Burtonsville, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

10/8

• 7 p.m. vs. Einstein (Kensington, MD)
• Location: Einstein High School

10/15

• 7 p.m. vs. Blake (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

10/22

• 7 p.m. vs. Blair (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

10/29

• 7 p.m. vs. Kennedy (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Kennedy High School

Kennedy High School

9/3

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Rockville (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Kennedy High School
• (L) 43 - 6

9/10

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Springbrook (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Springbrook High School

9/18

• 2 p.m. vs. Damascus (Damascus, MD)
• Location: Kennedy High School

9/24

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Northwood (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Northwood High School

10/2

• 2 p.m. vs. Einstein (Kensington, MD)
• Location: Kennedy High School

10/8

• 7 p.m. vs. Magruder (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Magruder High School

10/16

• 1 p.m. vs. Watkins Mill (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Location: Kennedy High School

10/22

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Poolesville (Poolesville, MD)
• Location: Poolesville High School

10/29

• 7 p.m. vs. Wheaton (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Kennedy High School

Northwood High School

9/3

• vs. Blake (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Northwood High School
• (L) 60 - 0

9/10

• 7 p.m. vs. Wheaton (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Wheaton High School

9/17

• 7 p.m. vs. Blair (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Blair High School

9/24

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Kennedy (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Northwood High School

10/1

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Sherwood (Sandy Spring, MD)
• Location: Northwood High School

10/8

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Springbrook (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Springbrook High School

10/15

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Paint Branch (Burtonsville, MD)
• Location: Northwood High School

10/22

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Rockville (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Rockville High School

10/29

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Einstein (Kensington, MD)
• Location: Einstein High School

Springbrook High School

9/3

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Watkins Mill (Gaithersburg, MD)
• Location: Watkins Mill High School
• (W) 32 - 0

9/10

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Kennedy (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Springbrook High School

9/17

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Paint Branch (Burtonsville, MD)
• Location: Springbrook High School

9/24

• 7 p.m. vs. Magruder (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Magruder High School

10/1

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Rockville (Rockville, MD)
• Location: Rockville High School

10/8

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Northwood (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Springbrook High School

10/15

• 7 p.m. vs. Winters Mill (Westminster, MD)
• Location: Springbrook High School

10/22

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Damascus (Damascus, MD)
• Location: Damascus High School

10/29

• 6:30 p.m. vs. Blake (Silver Spring, MD)
• Location: Blake High School