District 12
September 2025
Bonner pulls away late from O’Hara
September 27, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
Bonner hosted Cardinal O’Hara in a Catholic league red division matchup in an early than normal 4pm kickoff due to neighboring Upper Darby also having an home game at 5pm. Bonner started the game slow fumbling the opening kickoff and O’Hara turned that short field into a 34 yard field goal for an early 3-0 […]
Roman Catholic Defeats La Salle College in Convincing but close Fashion
September 27, 2025 | Patrick Birkhead
DOWN GOES NUMBER ONE! Tonight La Salle College High School faced off against Roman Catholic at Leslie C. Quick Stadium, (Widener University.) The third ranked 5A Cahilletes knocked off number one 6A La Salle by a score of 39-36 and although the Explorers occasionally flashed at life, Roman Catholic controlled this game. The purple and […]
Ant & Willie’s Pick Em Parade Week 6
September 25, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
If you were following Philadelphia Football in early 2000’s you undoubtedly visited Tedsilary.com several times a week. One of the most popular features on the site was the Weekly Picking Parade. What started out as friendly competition between two good friends Huck Palmer and Tom “Puck” McKenna in 2009 they a third participant in Willie […]
PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week of September 24, 2025
September 24, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
How can it be that we’ve reached the midpoint of the 2025 season already? It seems like just yesterday that we were here gearing up for the opening week of the season, and now we are at the midpoint, and it needs to slow down. The leaves are changing colors, we are starting to separate […]
Philadelphia Public League reverts back to crowning one champion
September 24, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
For the first time since 2008 the Philadelphia Public League will crown a single Public League overall champion. Gone are playoffs for all classifications within the league and the league will grant playoff berths to 8 teams to compete for the covenant Public League title. The top division Independence (Imhotep, Lincoln, Northeast, West Philadelphia, Simon […]
Hittin’ The Road With Travelin’ Matt – Week Five (Clippers and Crusaders…Plus Bonus Golf!)
September 22, 2025 | Matt Herring
Each week Travelin’ Matt traverses Pennsylvania attending the hottest high school football games and best matchups in the Commonwealth. Follow his exploits each week as he documents his journey from Week Zero to the Pennsylvania State Football Finals! Friday, September 26 The Ryder Cup – USA vs. Europe (Farmingdale, NY) Saturday, September 27 […]
Hittin’ The Road With Travelin’ Matt – Week 6 (Philly, Philly and the Tigers In Between!)
September 22, 2025 | Matt Herring
Each week Travelin’ Matt traverses Pennsylvania attending the hottest high school football games and best matchups in the Commonwealth. Follow his exploits each week as he documents his journey from Week Zero to the Pennsylvania State Football Finals! Thursday, October 2 2A Vaux Big Picture (2-4) vs. 6A Kensington (1-4) at South Philly Supersite […]
SJP finally hits the win column with win over Good Councel
September 21, 2025 | Billy Splain
It took a while, but the Hawks have finally got their first win of the season, a 24-0 drubbing over Good Councel. Jett Harrison scored twice and quarterback Charlie Foulke was involved in scoring three times to lead the Hawks. SJP got things rolling with a 37 yard Blake Sholders field goal to make it […]
Boys Latin drops Central
September 19, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
Central took an early 6-0 with 5 mins left in the first quarter -A great interception to start the 2nd quarter for Boys Latin and they take over at the central 28 yard line -And just like that we had a tied ball game as Boys Latin cashed in on a 4 yard touchdown reception […]
District 12 Week 4 Preview
September 19, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
With 4 weeks of action behind us let’s do a quick rundown of where things stand in all 3 city leagues. In the Pub it’s Imhotep and then the rest. Tep is currently 1-3 with their lone win coming against Eagle Academy II (NY). Their losses were to Harrisburg, DeMatha & Malvern Prep all top […]
Ant & Willie’s Pickem Parade Week 4
September 18, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
If you were following Philadelphia Football in early 2000’s you undoubtedly visited Tedsilary,com several times a week. One of the most popular features on the site was the Weekly Picking Parade. What started out as friendly competition between two good friends Huck Palmer and Tom “Puck” McKenna in 2009 they a third participant in Willie […]
PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week of September 17
September 17, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly. Since the last column, the Philadelphia sports scene remains hot, with the Phillies clinching the National League East and the Eagles defending their Super Bowl Championship by getting off to a 2-0 start. But you know what else is heating up […]
La Salle Defeats Calvert Hall in Northeast Philadelphia
September 14, 2025 | Patrick Birkhead
Today La Salle blew out Calvert Hall, who came all the way from Maryland to Northeast High School, by a score of 48-7. It seemed like everything was clicking for the Explorers who dominated the Cardinals in every aspect of the game. Calvert Hall got the ball first and the La Salle defense came out […]
Malvern Prep Defense Looks Impressive in Victory over Imhotep
September 13, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
MALVERN: The popular saying in football is Defense wins championships and when you are program like Malvern Prep who have won at least a share of the Inter Ac League 37 times in its storied history you know a thing or a two about winning championships. On Friday night in the much-anticipated matchup against Philadelphia […]
Elizabethtown leaves South Philly with win over Rams (Video Recap)
September 13, 2025 | Billy Splain
Elizabethtown took a nice little day trip on Saturday to the South Philly Supersite. They were there to play the Rams of South Philadelphia. Only, they didn’t just play. They dominated. Six different players scored touchdowns for the Bears and the defense dominated the Rams all game long. etown s philly by PAFootball Newsdotcom
Will Howard’s big day helps Blue Devils top Lincoln
September 13, 2025 | Billy Splain
Will Howard had quite the day. The sophomore back rushed for 242 yards on 21 carries and found the endzone 3 times to lead Springside Chestnut Hill to a 27-14 win at Abraham Lincoln high school. The Blue Devils scored on their second possession of the day to go up 7-0. It was also Howards […]
Speedboys pull off last second win over Hatboro (Video Recap)
September 13, 2025 | Billy Splain
West Philadelphia had bus issues and didn’t arrive to Hatboro-Horsham’s field until a little after 7. The late start was just the beginning of trouble for the Speedboys. An extended injury time out on the opening kick off further delayed the game so it was only fitting that this game nearly went into overtime and […]
District 12 Week 3 Preview
September 12, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
We are officially 3 weeks into the 2025 season and the pretenders, contenders and not so good teams are showing their form by now. In the Pub it’s all Imhotep but Lincoln has caught stride and showing they are hungry to knock the champion off. There are 3 undefeated teams left in the Public League […]
Ant & Willie’s Pickem Parade Week 3
September 12, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
If you were following Philadelphia Football in early 2000’s you undoubtedly visited Tedsilary,com several times a week. One of the most popular features on the site was the Weekly Picking Parade. What started out as friendly competition between two good friends Huck Palmer and Tom “Puck” McKenna in 2009 they a third participant in Willie […]
Kareim Mckellar lead Ben Franklin to win over Olney
September 11, 2025 | Billy Splain
Kareim Mckellar had a day. The senior qb tore up the field throwing for 108 yards and a td while also rushing for 101 yards and two scores on just 6 carries leading the Electrons to a 22-6 win at the Germantown Supersite Thursday afternoon. Olney took the opening kickoff and it looked like they […]
The STATE of PA Football: Live from FOP Lodge #5 Philly!
September 10, 2025 | Billy Splain
Join the Philly PFN crew as they interview coaches and players from West Philadelphia, Olney Charter, Lincoln and Audenreid Charter! Join us live at FOP Lodge #5 11630 Caroline RD Philly or watch online!
PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week of September 10
September 10, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly. While the Philadelphia area may soon be coming down with a case of Pennant Fever with the Phillies regular season ending and the Phightin Phils looking like a playoff team, but you know what else is heating up in Big Willie’s […]
Roman Catholic Gets Going in 2nd Half Survives Chestnut Hill Academy Upset Bid
September 6, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
CHESTER: After opening the season with a battle-tested road game against the North Carolina powerhouse Providence Day, followed by a trip to Florida last week to battle Cardinal Newman, the Roman Catholic Cahillites finally played a game on Pennsylvania soil. The top-ranked team in 5A by PFN Cahillites went 1-1 on their trips. On Friday […]
Bonner Prendie uses strong second half to surge past Archbishop Wood
September 6, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
Bonner-Prendie the defending PIAA 4 champions used a strong surge offensively and defensively in the second half to surge past Archbishop Wood 35-7 in a non-league game Friday night. Both programs are in the 4A classification so there’s a chance this game could be played in over a month with a trip to the state […]
La Salle College defeats Salesianum in Delaware
September 6, 2025 | Patrick Birkhead
The Explorers down Salesianum in Delaware to advance to 3-0 On Friday night the La Salle College High School Explorers marched into Delaware and defeated Salesianum on their own turf. The Explorers faced a lot of resilience between and hard fighting Sallies team, sloppy penalties, and a few questionable decisions. In this game momentum was […]
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