PA Football News Archives
October 2015
The Ruby Review: 2015 Mid-Season Mega-Post!!!
October 7, 2015 | Joe Ruby
As promised, ladies and gentlemen, here it is: the Mid-Season Mega-Post! This rather large entry in the Ruby Review features: Highlights from four games, plus A review of District 11’s unbeaten teams! So, let’s get down to it! West Scranton 20, North Pocono 6 Thursday, September 24th featured some surprise football, as the matchup between […]
DISTRICT 11 NOTES – Week 4
October 2, 2015 | Duke Helm
RUNNINGBACKS: Harry Hall of Northwestern rushed for 195 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Wilson. Hall went over 4,000 yards for his career (4,045) and has scored 45 td’s. Other players in the District that scored 45 td’s in their careers, were Matt Thomas (Parkland), CJ Billera (Emmaus), Chris Smith (Southern Lehigh), Eric […]
DISTRICT 11 NOTES WEEK 3
September 25, 2015 | Duke Helm
RUNNINGBACKS: Antwon Keenan of Bethlehem Catholic scored 5 td’s for the second week in a row and now has 11 on the season. Keenan rushed for 176 yards and caught 3 passes for 25 yards while teammate Randy Terry III rushed for 137 yards and a score. Saucon Valley Teammates, Evan Culver and Zach Thatcher rushed […]
Live TV/Video (Thursday Night Special)
September 24, 2015 | Joe Stokes
Thursday Sept 24 Lower Merion @ Garnet Valley 6:40 PM http://garnetvalleyfootball.com/Gamecasts/Gamecast.htm ********************************************************************** Friday September 25, Whitehall @ Liberty 7 PM PCN Network Comcast Channel 186 Southeast Pa *********************************************************************** Friday Sept 25 Souderton @ Pennsbury 6:30 PM http://livestream.com/accounts/1274087/events/4318795 ********************************************************************** Friday Sept 25 Strath Haven @ Springfield (Delco) 7 PM http://www.ssdcougars.org/Resources.cfm?subpage=47365w.
DISTRICT 11 NOTES WEEK 2
September 17, 2015 | Duke Helm
RUNNINGBACKS: Antwon Keenan of Bethlehem Catholic rushed for 176 yards and a school record tying 5 td’s in their win over Pleasant Valley. Keenan became the 6th Golden Hawk to score 5 td’s in a game. Evan Culver of Saucon Valley rushed for 221 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Northern Lehigh. Teammate Zach […]
Week 3 Games To Watch – East
September 17, 2015 | Pa Football News
Here are some interesting games to keep an eye on for Week 3 of the Pennsylvania High School football season. DISTRICT 1/12 Conwell-Egan (2-0) at Upper Moreland (2-0) (2014 Result: Upper Moreland 35-28) Neither of these teams are expected to be state contenders, but for the second straight year, one of them will be […]
The Ruby Review: 2015 Week 2
September 16, 2015 | Joe Ruby
Due to the weather and a bit of a cold caused by playing softball in the rain, I only managed to get to one game this weekend. Don’t worry, Wyoming Seminary, you’ll get your time in the spotlight! Wyoming Valley West 30, Delaware Valley 6 Last year’s incarnation of this game, a Week 2 contest […]
Week 2 Games to Watch – East
September 10, 2015 | Pa Football News
Here is a list of some games to watch in Week 2 in Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 11 & 12 DISTRICT 1/12 North Penn (0-1) at West Catholic (1-0) (2014 Result: North Penn 19-16 OT) The Burrs got off to a good start on their quest to get back on top of Class AA in both […]
The Ruby Review: 2015 Week 1
September 8, 2015 | Joe Ruby
I made it to three games this week, so here’s the scoop on each of them! Berwick 34, Crestwood 14 Oh, how nervous I was, sitting at Berwick’s Crispin Field, as the Bulldogs and Crestwood Comets went to the locker rooms at halftime, tied 7-7. And how could I not be?! My professional (well, amateur) […]
Week 1 Games To Watch – Eastern PA
September 2, 2015 | Pa Football News
Here is a list of some of the best games in PA High School football for Week 1. (2014 record in parenthesis) DISTRICT 1/12 Council Rock South (6-4) at Pennsbury (13-1) (2014 Result: Pennsbury 28-0) It will be fun to watch how Pennsbury and star linebackers Daulton Hose and Luke Snyder handle Council Rock South’s triple […]
The Ruby Review’s 2015 Preseason Preview
September 1, 2015 | Joe Ruby
The high school football season is right around the corner, and that means the Ruby Review is back and better than ever! Last season’s column sort of petered out as the winter closed in and your possibly-handsome author learned a valuable lesson about the difficulties of balancing amateur sports journalism with a full-time job, but […]
Ruby Review: Weeks 13 and 14 + Semifinals Preview!
December 5, 2014 | Joe Ruby
Hey everyone. The Ruby Review took a week off for Thanksgiving, but I’m back and nearly as dedicated to covering the PIAA State Semifinals as I was to eating turkey and stuffing last week! Before I get into the two Quarterfinals games I saw, I’ll take a step back to an exciting Round of 16 […]
District 11 Notes – Week 13
December 2, 2014 | Duke Helm
RUSHING Michael McDaniel of Bethlehem Catholic continues to stay hot in the playoffs as he rushed for 191 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Crestwood. McDaniel has rushed for 709 yards and 11 td’s in their 3 playoff games. He has now rushed for 1,929 yards and 34 td’s this year which moves him […]
District 11 Notes – Week 12
November 22, 2014 | Duke Helm
RUSHING Michael McDaniel of Bethlehem Catholic rushed for 267 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Saucon Valley. McDaniel now has 1,738 yards rushing, which places him in 3rd place all-time at BECA. He moved ahead of Darrius Webb (1,488 in 2008), Tim Barlok (1,535 in 1998) and Erik Marsh (1,661 in 1990). McDaniel has scored 31 td’s […]
Week 12: Crestwood 35, Berwick 19; Bishop McDevitt 35, Manheim Central 10
November 20, 2014 | Joe Ruby
Week 12 is in the books, and most of the District 2, 4 and 11 Champions have been crowned! It was not a good week to be undefeated, as 13 of the 29 zero-loss squads fell. Across the state, there were stunning upsets, dominating statements, and exciting finishes galore, and now the Ruby Review is […]
District 11 Notes – Week 11 2014
November 19, 2014 | Duke Helm
RUSHING Michael McDaniel of Bethlehem Catholic rushed for 251 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Lehighton. McDaniel also returned a fumble 73 yards for a 5th touchdown. The 5 td’s ties the school record held by Brian Baker (1994), Tim Barlok (1997), Dave Wilson (1999) and Eddie Scipio (2000). McDaniel now has 1,471 […]
Ruby Review: Berwick 51, Scranton Prep 29; Bethlehem Catholic 55, Lehighton 18 + Week 12 Previews
November 12, 2014 | Joe Ruby
Ruby Review Week 11: Berwick 51, Scranton Prep 29; Bethlehem Catholic 55, Lehighton 18 It was the coldest night of the half-over fall season. The thermometers read 36 and dropping, but with a stiff wind it felt like 26. It was the kind of night where you wished you had remembered your scarf, your gloves, […]
District 11 Notes – Week 10
November 11, 2014 | Duke Helm
RUSHING Gerald Douglas of Stroudsburg had his 5th, 200 yard game in their win over Pleasant Valley. Douglas leads the District with 1,839 yards rushing. He also broke Artie Owen’s career school record. Owens had 3,933 yards from 1969-71 and scored 69 touchdowns. Douglas now has 4,015 yards and 54 career td’s. In the same game, Eric […]
The Ruby Review: The Ruby PREVIEW! It’s Playoff Time!
November 7, 2014 | Joe Ruby
The Ruby Review: The Ruby Preview It’s one of my absolute favorite times of the year! All day Saturday, then Sunday, then Monday, I went back and forth from site to site, constantly checking to see if the PIAA Football Championship Brackets had been posted, and when they finally appeared, I started spending hours checking […]
District 11 Notes – Week 9
November 2, 2014 | Duke Helm
RUSHING Another 5 players rushed for over 200 yards in week 9 with Andrew Davidson of Emmaus leading the group for the third week in a row. Davidson rushed for 293 yards and 5 td’s in their 48-41 loss against Whitehall. In the last 3 games, Davidson has carried the ball 118 times for 884 […]
Ruby Review Week 9
October 28, 2014 | Joe Ruby
It’s inevitable. Sometime around the middle of October, things change. We trade T-shirts for sweatshirts, soda for hot chocolate, and sneakers for boots. As the temperature drops and the days shorten, we brace ourselves. All across the state, high school football teams are bracing too. Some are bracing for another long winter and the cold […]
District 11 Notes – Week 8
October 28, 2014 | Duke Helm
RUSHING Another 5 players rushed for over 200 yards in week 8 with Andrew Davidson of Emmaus leading the group for the second week in a row. Davidson rushed for 276 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Pocono Mountain East. Davidson went over 1,000 yards for the season and now has 1,169 yards […]
District 11 Notes – Week 7
October 17, 2014 | Duke Helm
WHAT’S ON TAP 7-0 Jim Thorpe at 7-0 North Schuylkill 7-0 Stroudsburg at 7-0 Bethlehem Catholic (Sat) RUSHING We had 5 players rush for over 200 yards this week with 4 of them recording their first 200 yard game of the season. Andrew Davidson of Emmaus ran for 315 yards and scored a total of […]
Ruby Review: Crestwood 28, Wyoming Valley West 14; Scranton Prep 28, Abington Heights 0
October 15, 2014 | Joe Ruby
They should change Frank Aigeldinger’s name to Frank Aigel-Ding!Ding!Ding!-er, because whenever he touches the ball, Crestwood hits the jackpot. Now, that might have been the worst joke about anything ever, but I firmly believe the underlying sentiment: The Crestwood Comets have themselves a special player in #3. After his performance Friday night, I think that […]
District 11 Notes Week 6
October 10, 2014 | Duke Helm
RUSHING Shane Simpson rushed for 278 yards and 6 td’s in the win over Whitehall. Simpson also caught 2 passes for 44 yards and his 7th td of the game. The 7 td’s breaks the 89 year old record of Jim Hanlon. Hanlon had 6 td’s in a game in 1925. Simpson now leads the […]
