[2] The name change reflected the trend that most of the district's residents lived within Chippewa Township and not within Doylestown's limits.

[citation needed] Chippewa's football rivalry with the Rittman High School Indians is the longest-running uninterrupted rivalry in Wayne County, having met every year since 1923.

[2] The two rival high schools compete for the "Big Chief Trophy.".

[3] Their football rivalry with Dalton High School Bulldogs is the second-longest in the county and has been played every year since 1925 with the exception of three years in the 1940s when Dalton didn't field a team.

[2] Chippewa is one of eight schools that participate in the Wayne County Athletic League.