Dunbar and Fort Hill football scheduled to meet in 2024 and 2025

The two winningest public school programs in MPSSA state championship history will play a home and home over the next two years

Gary Adornato | Jan 6, 2024

Dunbar and Fort Hill football scheduled to meet in 2024 and 2025 /

Dunbar and Fort Hill, two high school football programs which have combined for 23 MPSSAA state championships, have announced that they will meet in the regular season in each of the next two seasons.

Dunbar, which has a MPSSAA record 13 state championships, including three straight in Class 2A/1A, will host the Sentinels in Week 2 of the 2024 season at Morgan State University in Baltimore.

The Poets will then travel to Cumberland to face Fort Hill, the winner of 10 state crowns including three straight in Class 1A, at Greenway Avenue Stadium in 2025.

Since 2021 the Poets and Sentinels have combined to post a 77-1 record.

The last time the two programs met was in the 2017 1A state championship game at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, which Dunbar won, 30-26.

Dunbar leads the all-time series 4-1, including a 3-1 edge in state finals. The other contest came in the 2010 1A state semifinals.

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GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.