Abraham Lincoln
November 2025
District 12 Playoff Preview & Inter-Ac Regular Season Finale Notes
November 7, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
We have reached the playoffs for both the CL and Public League with a few city title games this weekend as well. Let’s get into the rankings for the City League Teams as things have been shaken up the last week or two. Top 10 La Salle St. Joes Prep Roman Catholic Malvern Prep Bonner-Prendie […]
Ant & Willie’s Pick Em Parade Week 11
November 6, 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 […]
Breaking Down the Philadelphia Public League Playoff Matchups & District 12 Bracketing for the Pub
October 30, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
The playoffs are here within the Pub and there are 4 teams vying for the crown. Traditionally prior to admission into the PIAA the Pub crowned one true champion. Beginning in 2011 the league went to multiple title games for classifications and no longer had a true public league champion. Due to recent seasons of […]
Ant & Willie Pick’em Parade Week 10
October 24, 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 […]
Lincoln suspension of season is lifted with restrictions
October 15, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
Abraham Lincoln’s season was halted after a post game incident following their 39-8 win at Northeast High a neighboring rivalry on October 4th. The original punishment handed down was a 3 game suspension including post season ban for the Railsplitters. Tuesday evening the league reduced the team suspension to 2 games by forcing Lincoln to […]
Abraham Lincoln season is declared over due to post game incident
October 9, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
Abraham Lincoln, a team many considered the biggest threat to Imhotep repeating as Public League champions, will no longer get an opportunity to contend for the league title as this afternoon the league has shut the program down for the remainder of the season giving their last 2 regular season opponents forfeit wins. West Philadelphia […]
District 12 Week 7 Preview & Notes
October 3, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
Week 6 in the city gave us a few thrilling games, some upsets and at the end only 3 teams remain unbeaten. Those three teams are Episcopal Academy, Thomas Edison and Belmont Charter. With LaSalle losing the rankings have been shaken up a bit. City Top 10 1. St Joes Prep 2. Roman Catholic 3. […]
Ant & Willie’s Pick’em Parade Week 7
October 3, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
District 12/Inter-Ac Week 2 Preview & Notes
September 5, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
We are officially 2 weeks into the season and things are starting to shake out in all 3 Philly City Leagues as all teams have at least 1 game under their belt. In the Public League Imhotep looks to be the king while Lincoln is just behind them. Northeast, Washington, John Bartram & all are […]
Ant & Willie’s Pickem Parade Week 2
September 4, 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 […]
Railsplitters beach trip is successful, back and forth battle with Germantown Academy. Video recap.
August 29, 2025 | Billy Splain
Big win for Railsplitters footballwith a 43-34 victory over the Patriots from the Inter Ac league in Ocean City (NJ). Travelin’ Matt with the highlights! lincoln v Germantown by PAFootball Newsdotcom
PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week of August 27
August 27, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly. Hard to believe we are already one week into the season and what a great weekend it was. Now it’s time to look at What’s Cookin’ In Philly Milestone for Pennridge: Last Friday marked the 1000th game in Pennridge Rams history. […]
District 12 represented well on the 2025 Big 33 Pennsylvania roster
February 14, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
The PSFCA released the 2025 Big 33 Pennsylvania team today and District 12 is very well represented throughout both the Philadelphia Public & Catholic Leagues. PIAA 6A champions St. Joes Prep has 2 players selected to play in the prestigious game led by OL Khalil Stewart (Syracuse) and S Ryan McDonald (Sacred Heart). Other District […]
District 12 is well represented on the PFN Coaches All-State Teams
January 9, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
The 2024 football season has concluded and coaches across the state submitted their nominations for the PFN coaches all-state teams. District 12 and the Inter-Ac also known as the Philly City Leagues are very well represented throughout 3 of the 6 classifications. In the 4A classification Bonner Prendie the state champs placed 5players on the […]
Imhotep stuns Lincoln with late score to win the Public League 6A title
November 11, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
Imhotep came into the Public League championship game as heavy favorites against the defending 6A champs Lincoln. During their regular season matchup Tep won going away 35-6. In the first matchup Lincoln was still figuring out their starting lineups on both side of the ball and awaiting eligibility for key players. With both teams almost […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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