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October 2023
Rules of the Game – The Ransom Report – Edition 10
October 27, 2023 | Kevin Ransom
October 27th 2023 EDITION – 10.1 Week 10 of the PIAA Football Season is upon us. This means different things to different people. Some teams are anxious to end a season where they underperformed. Others are attempting to prepare for playoffs. Others are already looking forward to the work they need to put in during […]
ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge Regular Season Finale
October 27, 2023 | Marcus Sic
BATTLE OF UNDEFEATEDS TOP THIS WEEK’S FIELD As the regular season come to a close there are four battles of undefeated teams on this week’s card of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge. These games will decide league championships, seedings for the upcoming District tournaments, they will also decide if the OG of Pennsylvania high school football […]
Mayhem’s Game of the Week- CB East @ CB West (Week 10)
October 26, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo
The Who: Central Bucks East @ Central Bucks West The What: High School Football The When: Friday, October 27, 2023 Kickoff: 7 pm The Where: War Memorial Field 375 West Court Street Doylestown, Pa 18901 Last 5 meetings: (*Playoffs) 2022-23 CB WEST 42 CB EAST 26 * 2022-23 CB WEST 21 CB EAST 14 2021-22 […]
District 12 Philadelphia Public League Preview
October 26, 2023 | Anthony Franklin
District 12 Philadelphia Public League Playoff Preview: The Philadelphia Public League Playoffs begin this weekend with 3 classification titles up for grabs as the 6A, 5A and 4A titles are all on the table. The league used divisional standings to assign seeding to teams who qualified for the playoffs. In both 6A & 5A […]
Kotsko’s View of the WVC: 2023 Week 10 Regular Season Finale
October 26, 2023 | John Kotsko
Here we go, the end of the regular season. Man, do the years start coming and don’t stop coming. It only feels like yesterday that I started writing my first preview article for the 2023 season and now we’re at the end of the regular season. Time really can pass you by. However, I’m just […]
Protime Predictions – Protime Hearkens Back to the Days of Yore
October 26, 2023 | Phil Myers
On occasion Protime loves to hearken back to the days of yore and wax nostalgic. As Mary Hopkin sang back in 1968, “those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end.” Protime and brothers Protime used to love watching Captain Kangeroo, Tom and Jerry, the Bugs Bunny Show, etc. In fact, Protime still […]
2023 Week 9 District 2 Week In Review
October 26, 2023 | John Kotsko
Towanda 55 Tunkhannock 7 Rylee Vanderpool had two rushing touchdowns for Towanda as they defeated Tunkhannock in a Thursday night matchup. Tahshon Gardner had two touchdowns as well. For the Tigers, quarterback Joey Ross had a 75 yard touchdown run for the Tunkhannock’s only touchdown. Western Wayne 41 Lakeland 14 Wildcats running back Josh […]
Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Top Rusher Edition
October 25, 2023 | Phil Myers
Protime’s weekly column that will attempt to get readers up to date on current football facts, stats, and miscellaneous tidbits of information from across the entire state of Pennsylvania. My crack staff of one will peruse some, but not all newspapers and other sources for hopefully what will be up to date scoop on the […]
PFN & @TheFundingZone presents: The STATE of PA Football! Live from Parma Pizza Manchester
October 25, 2023 | Billy Splain
Join host Billy Splain and Guest host Joe Gilloway from Linglestown Gazette Sports as they talk with Gerry Yonchiuk and players from Central York as well as Bud Kyle and players from Eastern York, LIVE from Parma Pizza in Manchester!
ProTime Pick’em Challenge Week 9 Results
October 25, 2023 | Marcus Sic
NINE WEEKS DOWN As we tally up the results of week 9 of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge it has become abundantly clear that Billy the Bossman is going to take the regular season title. With only one week to go in the regular season Billy leads with 81 wins, Alex is second just 2 behind […]
WPIAL Elite Eight: Week Nine Rankings
October 25, 2023 | Andrew Schaffer
6A: 1- Central Catholic (8-1)- @ (6) Gateway 7pm 2- North Allegheny (8-1)- @ (5) Seneca Valley 7pm 3- Mt. Lebanon (5-4)- @ (4) Canon Mac 7pm 4- Canon Mac (5-4)- (3) Mt. Lebanon 7pm 5- Seneca Valley (3-6)- (2) North Allegheny 7pm 5A: 1- Peters Township (9-0)- Bethel Park 7pm 2- Penn Hills (7-2)- […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Whitehall is in D11 Playoffs
October 25, 2023 | Guy Smith
This week we were at four football games out of seven total sporting events. We started Tuesday at the EPC girls’ volleyball semi-finals at Northampton. Thursday was Guy only at Liberty vs. Whitehall as Pam missed her first football game of the year. Friday we were in the rain for a Scranton Prep rout of […]
West Virginia Spotlight: Tygarts Valley 34, Hundred 14 PHOTO GALLERY
October 25, 2023 | Sykotyk
In a rare Tuesday night game, the Hundred Hornets hosted the Tygarts Valley Bulldogs at Cosgray Field. Neither team found the endzone for the first 23 minutes of the game. Before the visitors’ Aiden Phares scored on a 12 yard catch. Giving the Bulldogs a 7-0 halftime lead. In the third quarter, Kaiden Warner would […]
District 9 Review – Week 8
October 24, 2023 | Phil Myers
The games of the week: Central-Martinsburg remained undefeated when they beat Clearfield 27-21 in a battle that came down to the last seconds. Just like they did against Richland the week before, the Bison battled back from a deficit. They tied the game in the 4th only to have Central go up by six late. […]
Hollywood’s Cutting Room Floor-Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Rivalry Week
October 24, 2023 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
The End of the Line for the EPC North and South As Rivalry Week closes Out the Regular Season Week ten is upon us in Eastern Pennsylvania Conference as we have reached the climatic end and the District XI playoffs will begin a week from Thursday with the 3A classification. But we will discuss that […]
2023 Pennsylvania High School Football PFN Rankings Week 9
October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain
They’re on a roll! Once again not many changes made to the rankings. I’m starting to believe these helmet heads know something about football. They did do a little tweaking based on schedule strength and eye test (we’ve seen probably 90% of these teams live). 6A saw D-East move up a bit to a more […]
Keystone Club Top Special Teams Performers: Week 8, 2023!
October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain
Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Special Teams Performanced Kickoff returns for […]
Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: Week 8, 2023!
October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain
Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Defensive Performances Tackles (13 or more) […]
Keystone Club Top Offensive Performers: Week 8, 2023!
October 24, 2023 | Billy Splain
Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Offensive Performances RECORDS 499 Armond Hill […]
On The Sideline With Noah Stomsky: Episode 12- Thomas Garvey
October 24, 2023 | Noah Stomsky
Luxy’s Week 8 (9) Highlights
October 24, 2023 | Shane Lux
North Catholic vs. Indiana Slippery Rock University vs. California University Slippery Rock vs. Farrell
Pioneer Athletic Conference Cross-Over Matchups Set
October 24, 2023 | Willie McGonigle
The final week of the regular season is upon us and now we have the complete schedule as the Pioneer Athletic Conference (PAC) yearly cross-over matchups are set. This season Liberty Division teams will host all games scheduled for Friday evening with kickoff at 7 p.m. The PAC Championship features two schools that have less […]
Hittin’ The Road With Travelin’ Matt (Week 9) Rollers & Titans & Bucks & Rocks
October 24, 2023 | Matt Herring
Each week Travelin’ Matt traverses Pennsylvania attending the hottest high school football games and best match ups in the Commonwealth. Follow his exploits each week as he documents his journey from Week Zero to the Pennsylvania State Football Finals! Friday, October 20 6A #2 Central Bucks West (8-0) vs. 6A #10 Central Bucks South […]
Hollywood’s Cutting Room Floor-Colonial/Schuylkill League Rivalry Edition
October 23, 2023 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
As We Enter The Last Week of the Regular Season in the Colonial/Schuylkill League So Much Yet To Be Decided. It seems like it was just yesterday, that the Pennsylvania Football News staff was having their coaches kickoff cookout at the Forge Eatery and Pub up in Berwick in late August. In a blink of […]
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