Philadelphia Central Lancers
| Philadelphia Central Lancers |
| Head Coach: Richard Drayton |
| PIAA District 12 - Class 6A |
| Philadelphia Public League - Liberty |
| OVERALL | PCT | CONF | PCT | HOME | AWAY | STREAK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | 0.500 | 1-0 | 1.000 | 1-1 | 0-0 | L1 |
08-16 |
vs. Overbrook (0-1) |
- |
08-22 |
vs. Olney Charter (0-1) |
W, 30-24 |
08-29 |
vs. Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (1-0) |
L, 0-42 |
09-05 |
@ Frankford (0-2) |
- |
09-13 |
@ John Bartram (1-0) |
- |
09-19 |
vs. Boys Latin Charter (0-0) |
- |
09-26 |
@ Martin Luther King (1-0) |
- |
10-03 |
vs. Mastery Charter North (0-0) |
- |
10-10 |
vs. Dobbins-Randolph Vo-Tech (0-1) |
- |
10-17 |
vs. Belmont Charter (1-0) |
- |
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Week 4: District 12 & Inter-Ac Weekend Preview
September 20, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Week 4: Top 10 City Rankings: La Salle Roman St. Joe’s Prep Imhotep Bonner Malvern Prep Germantown Academy Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Simon Gratz George Washington Top Games of the Week: 1. St. Joseph’s Prep v Our Lady of Good Counsel (Friday @ 7pm): Prep will be rested following their bye week heading into […]
Central High’s Jaiden Connors has the Lancers Back to Winning
September 18, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Jaiden Connors is a 5-11 160lb WR/CB for Central High School in Philadelphia. He’s a returning starter and last Friday as Central hosted Olney he showed why he’s a top two-way prospect in the public league. Jaiden would score 2 receiving touchdowns in Centrals 44-6 win over Olney Charter while also recording 3 pass breakups […]
Philadelphia Public League 2024 Liberty Division Preview
August 21, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Public League Liberty Division: The Liberty Division welcomes George Washington as they were promoted after winning the National Division. They’ll compete with returning members West Philadelphia, Mastery North, Central, Belmont Charter, Olney & Boys Latin. Olney drops from the Independence Division down to Liberty and look to regain their competitiveness. West Philadelphia & George Washington […]
MLK uses big plays, defense to take down Central
September 17, 2023 | Billy Splain
It took just two plays for the Cougars to take control of the game. Makhai Robinson busted off two huge td runs consecutively to put MLK up 14-0 and they never relinquished the lead. “This started early this week. A lot of the guys responded to the loss we took earlier on, we had great […]
2023 PFN Player Profile: Getting to Know Central High WR Vance Johnson
April 25, 2023 | Anthony Franklin
Name: Vance Johnson Height/Weight: 6-1 180 Position: WR Jersey #: 5 Class: Senior 2024 Awards: All Public Honoree Twitter: @VanceJohnsonV Vance is a returning all public league receiver who will finish his HS career as a 4-year varsity starter. Coach Rich Drayton states “Vance will be a two-way starter this year and will make a huge impact in all 3 […]
Northeast survives first half battle and pulls away for the win of Central with a 41-6 win. (gallery included)
November 5, 2022 | Anthony Franklin
A fall matchup between Thanksgiving rivals is always going to be a great game to observe especially when a league championship game berth is on the line. Northeast hosted Central as the clear favorite but as we all know when a game involves rivals clashing anything can happen. This game was no different as the […]
Chester Overwhelms Undermanned Central 80-0
August 28, 2022 | Marcus Sic
Clippers Starters Score 72 Points Two of the most historic teams in high school football kicked off their seasons at the Chester Athletic Complex; with Gator manning the grill cooking up jerk chicken, hot dogs and hamburgers, the Chester Cheerleaders took their spots, the DJ had the music humming and with the Voice of […]
Philadelphia Public League Liberty Division Preview
August 25, 2022 | Anthony Franklin
Liberty Division Preview The Liberty Division is comprised of 6 teams with 4 of them being in 5A (King, Franklin, West Philadelphia, Mastery). Lincoln and Central are both 6A programs. The division is unique this year with Lincoln being bumped up and MLK dropping down from the Independence division. King, Mastery and Central are all […]
More Thanksgiving football. Northeast v Central Lancers @centrallancers @NEVikingsFB GALLERY
November 26, 2021 | PFN Staff
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Ben Franklin steam rolls over Central
October 5, 2021 | Anthony Franklin
The Electrons of Benjamin Franklin headed up Broad Street to take on the Lancers of Central High School in a key divisional game. The Lancers came into the game 0-3-1 while the Electrons entered the game 1-2. Franklin prior to this game had scored a combined 21 points in 3 games while giving up […]
2021 PFN Team Preview: The Philadelphia Central Lancers @centrallancers @PPLCA10 @Pull4publicsch @pplathletics
July 14, 2021 | Billy Splain
Philadelphia Central Lancers PFN Page PIAA District 12 – Class AAAAAA League: Philadelphia Public League – Independence Head Coach Rich Drayton Assistant Coaches Montik Goodwin, Charles Wenger, Gus Tolson, Khalil Smith, Rich Drayton Key Starters Lost Reginald Holiday, Balansama Kamara, Milton James, Fred Fulmore, Steph Piner, Ariel Reyes 2020 Season Record 2-1 2021 Schedule DATE […]
Central 56 Roxborough 12 @josh1corbin @RoxFootball_ @CentralHighPHL
April 18, 2021 | contributor
This was my 2nd time seeing Central and once again I walked away impressed, especially by their defense. The offense this time around was a lot more impressive than it was in their victory over Frankfort, the last time I watched them play. Number 33 for Central got the ball rolling when he raced to […]
2021 Spring PFN Player Profile: Alban Birdaini – Central @BirdainiAlban @CentralHighPHL @centrallancers
March 8, 2021 | Tristan Klinefelter
Alban Birdaini Class of 2022 Central High School C/DT Ht: 6’2 Wt: 260 Twitter: @BirdainiAlban Why do you play football? I play football because it’s something I fell in love with from an early age. What has been your best memory from football so far? My favorite memory was making it to the public league […]
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