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October 2024
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 […]
Freeport 48 Valley 20 on 9/27/2024 (Gallery)
October 17, 2024 | William Spicher
Updated gallery Short Video Freeport Coach John Gaillot & Amos Glenn (6 TDs) After Game Click Here For More Photos
What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII This Week: Week 9
October 16, 2024 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to this week’s installment of What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII this week. Hard to believe folks that we have reached Week 9 of the season and next week brings the final week of the regular season and we head into playoffs. Let us take a look at What’s […]
WPIAL Elite Eight: Week Eight Rankings
October 16, 2024 | Andrew Schaffer
6A: 1- Central Catholic (6-2)- (3) Seneca Valley 7pm 2- North Allegheny (7-1)- (3) Pine Richland 7:30pm 3- Seneca Valley (3-4)- @ (1) Central Catholic 7pm 4- Hempfield (3-5)- (6) Mt. Lebanon 7pm 5- Canon Mac (2-6)- (7) Norwin 7pm 6- Mt. Lebanon (2-7)- @ (4) Hempfield 7pm 7- Norwin (2-6)- @ (5) Canon Mac […]
Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – 2024 Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Edition 8
October 16, 2024 | Phil Myers
Protime’s weekly column 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. His 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 previous […]
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 […]
PFN Presents: The STATE of PA Football! MERCY ME! Do we need a new mercy rule?
October 16, 2024 | Billy Splain
63-6, 56-0, 57-6, 70-0, 75-0, 81-6. Those are just a few of the 91 games that have been decided by 50 points or more this year. And we’re only in week 8. History shows there will be more blowouts like that in the next 3-4 weeks. What good comes from continuing a game like that? […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Let’s Play Two
October 16, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 23. It was another busy sports week for us, with seven events on our schedule including four District 11 high school football games, two varsity / two JV. Our other three this week were Wilkes NCAA D3 men’s soccer, Penn State Altoona D3 ice hockey, and a Saturday ace in New York. The […]
PIAA Competition Formula Rule Changes Approach Final Vote
October 16, 2024 | Matt Herring
Last week, the PIAA voted and approved on second reading to alter their competition formula which moves teams up in class based on a two-year cycle of post-season success and athlete transfers into a school’s athletic programs. A third and final reading and passing vote is required for the new rule changes to be approved […]
New York Section 6 Playoff Scenarios
October 15, 2024 | Josh Hosier
Two weeks remain in New York’s regular season so lets take a look at the playoff picture for Section 6. Class AA – All Teams make the playoffs, Top Seed gets a first round bye. Bennett is 4-0 in AA so far and still have games vs Orchard Park and Lockport. The Tigers can […]
Keystone Club Top Special Teams Performers: Week 8, 2024!
October 15, 2024 | 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 Performances Kickoff returns for […]
Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: Week 8, 2024!
October 15, 2024 | 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, 2024! WOAH! ALL THOSE RECORDS BROKEN TOO!!
October 15, 2024 | 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. –Blayze Myers, McDowell: He set the Trojans’ […]
Week 9 of the Protime Challenge! Let’s go Joes!!
October 15, 2024 | Billy Splain
The regular season is winding down. Come on Joes! Take down those Pros! Loading…
PFN Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings, after week 8 2024
October 15, 2024 | Billy Splain
Steady as she goes heading into the home stretch of the regular season. Not many changes. Ranking 6A Record Pvs rank 1 LaSalle (12) 8-0 2 2 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 4-2 1 3 Imhotep (12) 7-1 3 4 Manheim Township (3) 8-0 4 5 Bethlehem Freedom (11) 8-0 6 6 Central Bucks South (1) […]
Luxy’s Week 8 Game Highlights
October 15, 2024 | Shane Lux
Subscribe to Luxy’s YouTube Channel Here Butler vs. Taylor Allderdice Clairton vs. Leechburg Carnegie Mellon vs. Grove City
Inside DXI Football Power Rankings: Week 8 Edition
October 15, 2024 | Cody Brady
Two weeks remain in the regular season and we have some teams who have now clinched playoff berths. Highlighted teams have clinched a playoff berth. Class AAAAAA While only two teams have officially clinched a playoff berth, we virtually know our 8 playoff teams. What’s left to figure out is where each will fall and […]
Protime Predictions Challenge results, week 8: “The Goat rules again”
October 15, 2024 | Billy Splain
You can’t stop him. Ole Protime continues to show the way when it comes to picking a winner. Guess Mrs. Protime is just a tick better and is the only one smarter than we, she picked the ultimate winner. His 17-3 score this week was good enough to claim the top spot for another week […]
2024 District 9 Review – 8th Week Action
October 15, 2024 | Phil Myers
Here are the top performers of the week, along with a couple other tidbits: Quarterbacks: Braylon Wagner, Redbank Valley, became the Bulldogs’ all-time leading passer in yardage and touchdowns, and he’s only a junior. He accounted for 4 touchdowns by throwing for 3 and running for another. Wagner also now holds the all-time touchdown mark […]
Schuylkill League’s *CLASH OF 61* Rivalry… Eagles or Tide, Who Breaks the TIE ?
October 15, 2024 | Daniel Reed
Blue Mountain v Pottsville History: Last Meeting: 2023 – Blue Mountain won 21 to 14 The Eagles come into this years matchup, winners of 2 straight by an average score of 19 to 7 over the Tide. For the series, which dates back to 1960, Pottsville leads 45 to 15, with 12 shutouts. The longest […]
Oil City 62, Warren 0 (Photo Gallery)
October 14, 2024 | Sykotyk
Oil City paid Warren a visit Saturday night and left with a 62-0 win. A dominating 48-0 first half started the running clock at the beginning of the third quarter. And rolled on for the shutout. Warren v. Oil City at War Memorial Field in Warren, Pennsylvania. #47 @PaFootballNews @ydlsportsnet @BrianHagberg pic.twitter.com/WmT5L6FtMy — Sykotyk (@Sykotyk) […]
Forever Final: My Favorite Photos From Wolverine Mountain
October 14, 2024 | Sykotyk
You can walk the long way, or you can walk the steps. As media, I could park up by the east endzone. But, for the final game, I was walking those steps one last time. Myles? Last Coin Flip on the Mountain? We got a comedian for this one. If there has to be a […]
Hittin’ The Road With Travelin’ Matt – Week 7 (Spartans, Spartans, Eagles & Eagles)
October 14, 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 10 3A North Schuylkill (4-3) vs. 4A Blue Mountain (6-1) Friday, October 11 […]
Hot Takes: Undefeated and One-Loss Team Forecasts
October 14, 2024 | Matt Herring
There are 34 undefeated Pennsylvania high school football teams and 65 one-loss teams remaining entering the final two weeks of regular season play and while those teams have high hopes for league, district and state titles not all can raise those banners this year. With nearly 100 of the 555 Commonwealth teams sitting on zero […]
Forever Final: Sheffield 41, Union City 12 (Photo Gallery)
October 14, 2024 | Sykotyk
Here’s a full gallery of photos from Saturday afternoon’s Sheffield-Union City contest on Wolverine Mountain. Sheffield’s thorough and dominating victory in what may be the Wolverines’ last ever home game ended with a 41-12 final score for the home squad. More photos can be found at the link below the photos in the slideshow: Click […]
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