The Riverbowl: inside Redding's oldest high school football rivalry
Shasta High and Enterprise High have been playing for a bell since the 1950s — and for a trophy called the Riverbowl since 1993.
Long before either school's football program mattered, the rivalry between Shasta High and Enterprise High started with a bell. Back in the 1950s, students from each school would sneak onto the other's campus and steal a prized possession — for Shasta, it was the school bell.
That prank tradition eventually became a football game, and in 1993 the annual meeting between the two schools was formally named the Riverbowl. Enterprise dominated the series' first decade, but the rivalry has swung back and forth since — Shasta took the trophy in 2004, 2005, 2007, and again in 2010 with a 53–20 win, while Enterprise answered in 2008 and 2009.
Shasta, founded in 1899, is the largest high school in Shasta County with an enrollment topping 1,600 students. Its alumni include Olympic wrestler Greg Gibson and longtime Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy — a reminder that the rivalry has outlasted generations of Redding families on both sides of it.
Whatever the records look like heading into a given season, the Riverbowl remains the one date on the North State football calendar that both schools' communities circle first.