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Dinwiddie to honor their inaugural football team.

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The very first Dinwiddie High School football team to take the field will be recognized and honored pre-game at this week's playoff game. In 1965, 30 kids took the field, albeit someone else's field, because there was no Dinwiddie football field that year.

Of those 30 young men, 24 are still alive today, as is their head coach, George Rapp. Many still live in or around Dinwiddie. At last count, 15 of these original players plan to attend Friday night.
 
I am very excited to meet the entire team. I worked with and know two of them very well. One retired as the County Treasurer and the other is our former Commonwealth Attorney who taught me a ton about law, helped nuture my career and helped me get into coaching when I moved here from Roanoke. By the way he still spots for our public address announcer. It is going to be my pleasure to escort these pioneers onto the home field they never had.
 
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