November 2024
Imhotep stuns Lincoln with late score to win the Public League 6A title
November 11, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Imhotep came into the Public League championship game as heavy favorites against the defending 6A champs Lincoln. During their regular season matchup Tep won going away 35-6. In the first matchup Lincoln was still figuring out their starting lineups on both side of the ball and awaiting eligibility for key players. With both teams almost […]
West Philadelphia Speedboys Capture First Public League Title in 83 years
November 9, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
The West Philadelphia Speedboys Friday afternoon traveled across the city to play Martin Luther King in a Public League 4A championship and the right to play the Catholic League 4A Champion Bonner-Prendie. These two teams are no stranger to one another as the 2023 season they played twice, once as a divisional matchup and the […]
District 12 Playoff Preview Week #12
November 8, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
District 12 Playoffs Preview 6A Public League Finals #2 Abraham Lincoln @ #1 Imhotep (Northeast Supersite): Saturday 1pm Imhotep is entering this game on a 5-game winning streak. The Panthers are 9-1 on the season with their lone loss to East St. Louis HS early in the season. In last week’s semifinal game against George […]
Frankford defeats Mastery Charter North in Public League 5A Championship Game
November 5, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Frankford Head Coach Damion Brockington jumped for joy as his team was rewarded with the Public League 5A championship plaque. Coach Brock has been the head coach of the Pioneers since 2021 when in his first season as head coach he led the team to a 10-1 season with the lone loss coming at the […]
Abraham Lincoln runs past rival Northeast
November 2, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
The Lincoln Railsplitters entered Friday contest looking to return to their second consecutive Public League championship game. In their way was neighborhood rival who had beaten Lincoln in every game played between 1996 and 2022. In 2023 Lincoln stormed past Northeast in the regular season and then topped them in the public league title game. […]
District 12 Playoff Preview
November 1, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
District 12 Playoffs Preview 6A Public League #4 George Washington @ #1 Imhotep (Germantown Supersite): Saturday 12pm Imhotep hasn’t lost an Public League playoff game since 2011 when they lost to Bok 22-19 in the Public League finals. They’ll host George Washinton in a semi-final game for a chance at their first 6A public league […]
Philadelphia Public League Playoff Preview
October 25, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Philadelphia Public League Playoff Preview: 6A Playoff Games: #8 Kensington v #1 Imhotep: Imhotep will be awarded a forfeit win over Kensington as Kensington opted to not play Tep and instead will play a non-league game against Dobbins looking for their first victory of the season. As a result, the top PL 6A seed will […]
Philly City League Weekly Rankings & Recap
October 17, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 8 Rankings & Recap: La Salle St. Joes Prep Imhotep Malvern Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Archbishop Ryan Abraham Lincoln Haverford School Weekly Game Recap: Lower Moreland 26 Thomas Edison 8: Lower Moreland jumped out to an early 24-0 lead and coasted the final quarter for the win. Dobbins 20 Mastbaum […]
Philadelphia City League Weekly Rankings, Recap & Preview
October 11, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 7 Rankings: La Salle College St. Joseph’s Prep Imhotep Charter Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Malvern Prep Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Germantown Academy Archbishop Ryan Abraham Lincoln Week 7 Recap: Overbrook 24 Vaux 0: Overbrook jumped out early on Vaux behind the dynamic duo of QB Jineer Fogan & WR Khary Bruce. Brook improved to 4-3 […]
Philly City League Week 6 Rankings and Recap
October 2, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 6 Recap & Rankings: St. Joes Prep La Salle College Imhotep Charter Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Malvern Prep Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Germantown Academy Abraham Lincoln Archbishop Ryan Kipp-Dubois 14 Edison 0: Kipp used a strong defense to will their way to a win behind defensive lineman Andrew Morency’s 3 sack performance. Edison got a […]
Bonner Prendie upsets Roman Catholic
September 28, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Bonner-Prendie is in their first season in the Philadelphia Catholic League Red Division which is composed of the larger CL schools including SJ Prep, La Salle, Father Judge and Roman Catholic. SJP and La Salle are 6A programs. Judge & Roman are 5A programs. The new 2 programs in the division Bonner and O’Hara are […]
Northeast DeShawn Woodhouse powers the Vikings past Gratz
September 23, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Both Simon Gratz and Northeast entered Saturday’s contest anxious to start Public League Independence Division play. Gratz entered the game 4-0 with wins over Catholic League program Carroll, Mastery North, Capital Prep & Executive Education Academy. Northeast entered 2-2 with wins over West Catholic and Boys Latin to start the season before suffering back-to-back defeats […]
Late heroics help Frankford to victory over Palumbo
September 21, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Frankford High historically has been a strong powerhouse program in the Philadelphia Public League. The past couple of seasons they’ve been below the normal standard expected of the program. Damian Brockington who is commonly known as Coach Brock is a Frankford alumni amd former player who earned all public and all city honors during his […]
Roxborough powers past Kensington High
September 20, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Roxborough High finally broke through the winning column Thursday afternoon as they earned a hard fought 20-8 victory over Kensington High. The victory broke a three game skid for the Wolves. After a scoreless first quarter Roxborough would get on the board when a Kensington punt went backwards setting the Roxborough offense up with a […]
Week 4: District 12 & Inter-Ac Weekend Preview
September 20, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 4: Top 10 City Rankings: La Salle Roman St. Joe’s Prep Imhotep Bonner Malvern Prep Germantown Academy Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Simon Gratz George Washington Top Games of the Week: 1. St. Joseph’s Prep v Our Lady of Good Counsel (Friday @ 7pm): Prep will be rested following their bye week heading into […]
Central High’s Jaiden Connors has the Lancers Back to Winning
September 18, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Jaiden Connors is a 5-11 160lb WR/CB for Central High School in Philadelphia. He’s a returning starter and last Friday as Central hosted Olney he showed why he’s a top two-way prospect in the public league. Jaiden would score 2 receiving touchdowns in Centrals 44-6 win over Olney Charter while also recording 3 pass breakups […]
District 12 & Inter-Ac Week 3 Recap
September 17, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 3 in the 3 Philly City Leagues has come and gone. When the weekend began there were 8 undefeated teams and that number is now down to 5 after Ben Franklin, Imhotep & Haverford all lost their first games this season. Currently only Bonner-Prendie, Roman Catholic, La Salle College & Simon Gratz are the […]
District 12 & Inter-Ac Week 3 Preview
September 13, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 3 City Rankings Roman Catholic Imhotep Charter La Salle College St. Joe’s Prep Malvern Prep Bonner-Prendie Haverford School Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Cardinal O’Hara George Washington We are fully entrenched into the 2024 season as all teams within the cities 3 leagues have between 2-3 games under their belts already. There are quite a […]
Academy Park sprints past Kensington 63-7
September 8, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
The Academy Park Knights and Kensington Tigers both entered Saturdays contest with 0-2 records. Academy Park was competitive in both of their defeats while Kensington took huge losses in their previous games. This game started with Kensington quickly going 3 and out and having to punt the ball deep in their own territory to the […]
District 12 Week 2 Preview
September 6, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
We are at Week 2 of the 2024 season and there are some teams who have played their way into the top of the city rankings while a couple have disappointed and fell out of the rankings. The season is still early so there will be much more movement in standings as the season progresses. […]
2024 District 12 & Inter-Ac League Week 1 Recap
September 3, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 1 is officially in the books and what an entertaining weekend of football in the city of Philadelphia it was. Plenty of upsets, playoff contending teams gaining statement wins and some quality football matchups. Benjamin Franklin 42 Olney 0: The Ben Franklin Electrons pulled off the first big shocker with their shutout big win over […]
Chester runs past and around West Philadelphia High
August 31, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
The Chester Clippers jumped out to an early lead and never looked back against West Philadelphia. The Clippers scored their first touchdown courtesy of senior RB Dayshon Jackson’s 2 yard rushing score to take an early 6-0 lead with 7:57 left in the opening quarter. West Philly had trouble early sustaining drives and moving the […]
District 12 Week 1 Rankings & Preview
August 30, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
This week will feature all of the Inter-Ac teams playing as well as most of the Philly Public League & Catholic League teams in action. Last week’s game showed La Salle is very formidable & will be a legit threat in not only the CL race but in the PIAA 6A race. Imhotep had a […]
District 12 Week 0 Recap
August 27, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
District 12 Week 0 Recap The first week of the 2024 season has been completed so let’s do a quick recap of the 19 games involving city league teams: Ben Franklin 26 Overbrook 16: The Electrons got a rushing score from Jr. RB Tyree Nichols, Sr. QB Samir Smith, & Jr. RB Tae Wiggins. Sr. […]
Ben Franklin earns hard fought victory over Overbrook
August 25, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
The Ben Franklin Electrons hosted fellow public league member the Overbrook Panthers in what was the first game of the 2024 public league season at 29th street stadium. The late great Philly hall of fame high school sports journalist would always attend the first city game to kick off his season long coverage. In the […]
