October 2024
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 […]
Philadelphia Public League 2024 National Division Preview
August 22, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEAGUE NATIONAL DIVISION The 2024 season will feature 7 teams in the 3rd tier Public League Division commonly known as the National Division. George Washington won the division in 2023 and was promoted to the Liberty Division. The division is top heavy and it’s quite likely the division title winner won’t be known […]
Philadelphia Public League 2024 Liberty Division Preview
August 21, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Public League Liberty Division: The Liberty Division welcomes George Washington as they were promoted after winning the National Division. They’ll compete with returning members West Philadelphia, Mastery North, Central, Belmont Charter, Olney & Boys Latin. Olney drops from the Independence Division down to Liberty and look to regain their competitiveness. West Philadelphia & George Washington […]
Philadelphia Public League Independence 2024 Division Preview
August 21, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
INDEPENDENCE DIVISION The top Public League Division once again will be led by the defending 5A champions Imhotep Charter. The Panthers will be competing this year in the 6A classification along with fellow division members Northeast and defending Public League 6A champion Lincoln. Rounding out the division are Simon Gratz, John Bartram and recently promoted […]
Philadelphia Public League Independence Division Preview
August 20, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
INDEPENDENCE DIVISION The top Public League Division once again will be led by the defending 5A champions Imhotep Charter. The Panthers will be competing this year in the 6A classification along with fellow division members Northeast and defending Public League 6A champion Lincoln. Rounding out the division are Simon Gratz, John Bartram and recently promoted […]
Philadelphia Catholic League Blue Division Preview
August 19, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
PCL BLUE DIVISION The 2024 Catholic League season will feature realignment within the Blue Division with former Red member Archbishop Wood dropping down to the Blue Division. They’ll compete with defending champion Neumann Goretti, Lansdale Catholic, Archbishop Ryan, West Catholic, Conwell-Egan and Archbishop Carroll. Preseason Rankings: 1. Neumann Goretti 2. Conwell-Egan 3. Archbishop Wood 4. […]
Philadelphia Catholic League Red Division Preview
August 17, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
CL Red The 2024 season begins with change in alignment for the Catholic league divisions. The archdiocese voted and approved dropping Archbishop Wood and Archbishop Ryan down from the Red Division to the Blue division while promoting Bonner-Prendie and Cardinal O’Hara up to the Red Division. Preseason Rankings 1. St. Joes Prep 2. Roman Catholic […]
Malvern DB/Athlete Andrew Pellicciotta is headed to Naval Academy
August 4, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Andrew Pellicciotta a rising senior at Malvern Prep has made his college decision and will join fellow teammate Jake Bauer at the Naval Academy. Andrew won Inter-Ac League MVP honors after a senior season in which he helped the Friars go 9-1 and an Inter-Ac championship. Andrew led Malvern in rushing yards (656), receiving yards […]
Malvern Prep Senior DB Zade Johnson commits to Air Force
August 1, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Malvern Prep senior defensive back Zade Johnson has shut his recruitment down and given his verbal commitment to Division 1 FBS program Air Force Academy. Zade as a junior posted 4 interceptions along with 10 passes broken up & over 35 tackles. Zade earned all Inter-Ac League honors and saw an increase in his recruitment […]
