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I would have liked to think that what makes it a rivalry is that both schools have a good likelihood of putting a good team on the field. Teams that are well coached and have a competitive heart at their core. This along with talent means that only your very best effort on the field will give your team the victory, in other words the challenge is always there. Let me ask you a question, say for the sake of argument that the government forced everybody in Russell to move to Ashland and everybody in Ashland was forced to move to Russell. Would you then not like Russell people or would you stick with not liking Ashland? Or were you just speaking figuratively?

Its a whole different story ouside of high school i'm speaking purely about the 2 schools and they just plain don't like each other. I have a few friends from Ashland Its all different when you graduate as far as friends from other schools.
When I was in school Russell and Ashland students fist fought all the time.