District 12
November 2024
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 […]
Playoff Preview: The Rematch- St. Joe’s Prep vs La Salle D12 Round 2
November 7, 2024 | Noah Stomsky
La Salle v. St. Joe’s Prep Where: Wissahickon High School When: 1:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 9th Last Meeting: October 5th, 2024: La Salle 35 St. Joe’s Prep 34 (4 OT) La Salle Explorers (PFN 6A Rank 1) Coach: Brett Gordon La Salle. In coach Brett Gordon’s first season as the head coach, not only has […]
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 […]
What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII This Week: Week 11
October 30, 2024 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to this week’s installment of What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII this week. It’s hard to believe that we have reached the conclusion of the Regular Season. What a great Regular Season it was let’s take a look at some of the things that have happened here in Districts […]
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 […]
Frankford takes down Roxborough (photo gallery)
October 21, 2024 | PFN Staff
Roger Barone, Photographer Frankford defeated Roxborough 30-16 in Philadelphia Public League Football action at Roxborough’s field. Both teams have secured playoff berths and will begin play next weekend. Game Action and some key pics: – Female Ref with Pink Penalty Flag – Roxborough coaches manifesting sportsmanship after losing to Frankford, but spend time showing support for injured […]
Hittin’ The Road With Travelin’ Matt – Week 8 (Tigers, Wildcats & Hawks)
October 21, 2024 | 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, October 18 5A #5 Pine-Richaland (7-0) vs. 6A #9 North Allegheny (7-1) Saturday, October […]
St. Joes Prep Blows Past Roman Catholic Winning 48-20
October 20, 2024 | Noah Stomsky
Franklin Field, home of the Penn Quakers and the oldest active college stadium in the United States found itself in use on Saturday, October 19th, 2024 to host the St. Joseph Prep Hawks and the Roman Catholic Cahillites. St Joes Prep coming off a 35-14 win against Cardinal O’Hara while Roman Catholic coming off a […]
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 […]
Simulation: PA Classification #1 Ranked Teams vs. Rest of Top 10
October 16, 2024 | Matt Herring
As we near the end of the PA football regular season we thought it would be interesting to simulate possible matchups looming in the district and state playoffs. For this experiment we simulated games using the #1 ranked team in each classification versus the remaining Top 10 teams in their classification. These simulations are based […]
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 […]
Hittin’ The Road With Travelin’ Matt – Week 6 (Patriots, Titans, Redskins & Explorers)
October 7, 2024 | 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 3 6A #6 Bethlehem Freedom (6-0) vs. 4A Bethlehem Catholic (4-2) Friday, October 4 […]
La Salle Stuns St. Joseph Prep in Four Overtimes
October 6, 2024 | Noah Stomsky
Football. Love it or hate it, you can at least admire it. St. Joe’s Prep vs La Salle was without a doubt the most anticipated game of the week. Quite possibly could have been the most anticipated game of the season with how each team was playing. The first half was all defense with neither […]
What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII This Week: Week 7
October 3, 2024 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to this week’s installment of What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII this week. We have past the halfway point of the season. What an exciting season it has been thus far and the rest of the season appears to be just has exciting. Let’s look at what went down […]
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 […]
Archbishop Ryan completes comeback over Conwell-Egan, continues to suprise
September 28, 2024 | Mike Livingston
FAIRLESS HILLS, PA – If there is one thing that the Archbishop Ryan Football team has been this season, its doubted. Coming off a disapointing 3-8 campaign in 2023 the Raiders were looked at as no more than another blue division throw away by many. A team that would scrap there way to the middle […]
Roxborough lights up the scoreboard with its first points posted to their new scoreboard
September 28, 2024 | Billy Splain
Roxborough lights up the scoreboard with its first points posted to their new scoreboard that was provided by Brown’s Shoprite. The blue board with white LED lights was donated to honor the memory of Nicholas Elizalde, a junior varsity player who was killed during an ambush attack while a scrimmage among three teams was underway in September […]
Northeast drops MLK with a heavy defensive effort
September 28, 2024 | Billy Splain
There were no heros is last nights win over MLK for the 4-2 Vikings. It was a team effort led by a relentless defense. “I feel everybody put a full 2 phases of the football game. Had a lot of guys touching the ball there in the first half” said Northeast head coach Nick Lincoln. […]
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 […]
Lincoln skates by Gratz
September 28, 2024 | Billy Splain
When the Railsplitters needed him, David Akpuru delivered. The speedy back had not one but two long td runs to help Lincoln slip by Simon Gratz 21-20 on a damp day. “My teammates put faith in me, my coaches put faith in me so I just produced” said Adpuru of his long runs. The score […]
Kipp-Dubois defense shines in 14-0 win over Edison
September 26, 2024 | Billy Splain
“Defense wins championships baby, offense wins football games”. That’s what Kipp head coach Paul Bresil said after his Lions defense put on a show. Andrew Morency had three sacks and was a terror all night long for the Owls. “I just visualize and attack. I’m just going for the backfield, heads up” said Morency of […]
PFN Presents: The STATE of PA Football! Live from Paddy Whacks in Philadelphia!
September 25, 2024 | Billy Splain
It’s mid season and we’re in Philly at Paddy Whacks on Roosevelt Blvd! We’ll be joined by players and coaches from MLK, Father Judge and Roman Catholic! Come early, get a seat and watch the show live!
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 […]
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