CHANUTE — While their rivalry will remain in spirit, Iola High and Chanute High will show some cooperation Friday evening when the Mustangs visit the Blue Comets on the football field.
The Iola cheerleaders will join their Chanute counterparts for a unified half-time show, while Iola patrons are invited to wear pink along with the hometown crowd as part of Chanute’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month activities.
Friday’s football game will be the final time the two rivals play each other.
With Iola’s switch to the Pioneer League from the old Southeast Kansas League, and separation of Class 4A this fall into two divisions, the Mustangs and Blue Comets now find themselves in different leagues and state classifications.
When football schedules for 2014 and 2015 were announced earlier this month, Chanute was no longer on Iola’s schedule for the first time in decades.
