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With the start of high school football practices about a month away, Rhode Island fans can circle the following dates on their calendars: Sept. 9 and 16.

Nonleague games are scheduled to start on Friday, Sept. 9 with 21 games to be played that weekend. Sixteen of those games will be played on Friday night and five on Saturday.

League games are slated to begin the following week, Friday Sept. 16. The schedule features 13 Friday night games and six on Saturday.

Injury Fund games will take place Sept. 1-3.

Here are a few key Week One league matchups:

Defending Division I state champion Hendricken will host La Salle, a playoff team a year ago, while last year’s runner-up, Portsmouth, will host Cranston East.

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After great short on the NCAA and March Madness a couple of weeks ago, the PBS investigative program Frontline turned its attention to the culture of high school football with Football High last night.

Naturally, it wasnt all pom-poms and pep bands. Frontline examined some of the darker aspects of the sport as it visited with Shiloh Christian (Ark.) and several of its rivals in Arkansas and Texas, namely the higher-profile, high-stakes culture that has seeped from the NFL and college and its effects on the athletes and coaches involved.

Frontline touched on the kids who have moved into town to become part of the Shiloh program, hoping to boost their recruiting profiles with the help of promoters.

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Central’s football victory over first place Chariho Friday night earned the Knights a share of the Division II-A regular season title, but Chariho still will be the II-A top seed for the eight-team Division II playoffs that begin next week-end.

The Central victory on Friday left Central, Chariho and Johnston tied for first place in the final regular season standings with 5-2 records. Because each team was 1-1 in head-to-head competition among the third, the playoff seeding tie was determined by points awarded for victories over teams based on regular season finish. A Chariho victory over fourth place Westerly, who defeated both Central and Johnston, gave the Chargers one more point than Johnston and Central
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