Coventry-West Warwick Thanksgiving Day game halted. What happened?

Two Thanksgiving Day rivals couldn’t keep the game between the lines.

Officials at West Warwick vs. Coventry called the annual bowl game with 10:01 remaining in regulation after a fight broke out. West Warwick was winning, 38-0, when tensions unfortunately boiled over.

The fight, allegedly, started with two players and then escalated as both benches cleared. Nick Cantor, the Kent County Daily Times Sports Editor, was in attendance and posted a video on X on what appears to be the end of the scuffle that happened in front of the Coventry bench.

The public address announcer, in the video, is telling athletes to leave the field. And that the game was officially over. It’s unclear if there were any official ejections from the contest. But one thing is clear, West Warwick and Coventry went over the line in their rivalry game and nearly an entire quarter was lost.

This isn’t the first time these two programs didn’t finish a Thanksgiving Day game. The 2004 iteration was called with 1:39 left on the clock and the Oakers leading 46-6. The benches also emptied in that game and a Coventry player was ejected. One game official was knocked over in the scuffle and four police officers helped break up the players and restore order, according to the Providence Journal’s story.

Thursday was the 63rd all-time Thanksgiving meeting between West Warwick and Coventry. The Wizards extended their series lead to 47-14-2 with this year’s win.

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