Thanksgiving Day games.

[Freddy]

Just across the lake from Rut a Thanksgiving tournament would fall outside the earliest allowable competition date for both girls and boys as mandated by the state. Girls starts the week after Thanksgiving, the 30th, with boys starting the week after that, which makes for a staggered state tourney schedule at the end of the season.
We did have Thanksgiving tourneys back "in the day" (the early 70's), which really messed up our traditional deer hunting schedules back then.