In 2007, the football team won the North I, Group IV state sectional championship with a 31–13 win over Montclair High School, in a game played at Giants Stadium. The win was the team's first sectional title since the playoff era began in 1974. The school's football rivalry with Barringer High School, which dates back to a Thanksgiving Day game played in 1897, was listed at 7th on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". East Orange leads the rivalry with a 57-39-9 overall record as of 2017.