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High School football started in Wise County Virginia on Oct. 20th 1923 with the East Stone Gap Tigers losing to the Big Stone Gap Buccaneers by a score of 6-0. Later on the same day the Norton Raiders defeated the Coeburn Blue Knights by a score of 12-6. That was the first High Schools in Wise County to field a football team. Big Stone Gap had the first County Championship as they finished out the year with a record of 4-1.

In 1924, Appalachia and Wise started playing football and their first game was aganist each other. Appalachia won that encounter by a score of 33-0. Appalachia woould concluded the year at 1-4. Those 33 points were the only points that Appalachia scored that year. The Wise County Championship was won by the Norton Raiders. Norton would also win the County Championship again in 1925 under the guidance of coach Jay Litts. In 1926, the East Stone Gap Tigers would win the only county championship and the Norton Raiders would set a record that no one wanted. Norton suffered the worst defeat ever by a Virginia school in football history. Kingsport defeated Norton by the unbelieveable score of 193-0. Norton would win only one game that season. Norton would rebound in 1927 to win their third county championship in four years.