Chester

November 2025

Springfield-Delco knocks off Chester to win District 1 Championship

November 22, 2025 | Nicholas Mastripolito

Valerios’ trifecta of touchdowns propels Springfield-Delco to win Springfield-Delco knocked off the Chester Clippers by a final score of 34-12 on Friday night. The Springfield offense was led by the offensive coordinator, Lou D’Alonzo, who posted a play-calling masterclass. Here were my thoughts pre-game. ITS GAMEDAY. CHESTER @ SPRINGFIELD IN THE 5A STATE QUARTERFINAL MATCH. […]

Historic Season For Chester Comes to Ends With Loss to Springfield In District Championship

November 22, 2025 | Willie McGonigle

SPRINGFIELD: Entering the 2025 the expectations were high for the Chester Clippers and through the first 13 weeks of the season the Clippers lived up them, completing the first undefeated 10-0 regular season in school history and continued their winning ways into the District One 5A playoffs where they rolled up three more victories to […]

District 1 5A Championship Preview

November 20, 2025 | Willie McGonigle

The Who: 4th-Ranked Chester Clippers at 6th-Ranked Springfield Cougars The What: District 1 5A Championship/State Quarterfinal Where Springfield High School, 200 S. Rolling Rd, Springfield, PA 19064 When: Friday, November 21, 7 pm For Updates on X, follow: @williepafn and @Nickmashmedia Last Meeting: This is the first meeting between the Clippers and Cougars since the 1960s About […]

Chester runs and throws past Rustin to earn district title game appearance

November 15, 2025 | Anthony Franklin

The Chester Clippers are a program record 13-0 with the most wins in a season in program history. Saturday in the home finale Rustin drove down field early on a 46 yard run from Sr RB Jimmy Boland to get the Golden Knights into the red zone. Chester’s defense buckled down and forced Rustin into […]

Ant & Willie’s Pro Pickem Parade

November 14, 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 […]

District 1 5A Second Round Preview

November 7, 2025 | Willie McGonigle

We’ve reached the Elite Eight in District 1 5A. Last week, things went according to chalk except for the 12th seed Unionville Longhorns going on the road and knocking off the 5th seed Wissahickon Trojans. This week, we get two rematches from the regular season. Will the losers of the regular season get revenge? Is […]

PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week of September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025 | Willie McGonigle

How can it be that we’ve reached the midpoint of the 2025 season already? It seems like just yesterday that we were here gearing up for the opening week of the season, and now we are at the midpoint, and it needs to slow down. The leaves are changing colors, we are starting to separate […]

Anthony & Willie’s Picking Parade Pick’Em For Philly Area Football

August 29, 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 and in 2009 they a third participant in […]

2025 PFN Team Preview: Chester Clippers

August 17, 2025 | Willie McGonigle

The Chester Clippers Head Coach: Dennis Shaw Class 5A 2024 Season Record 10-2 PIAA District 1 Key Starters Lost: Shamar Williams Dayshon Jackson Returning Starters Jalen Harris, QB, 6’1, 185, 2026 Daron Harris, ATH, 6’2, 190, 2026 Jerrell Palmer, LB/RB/ 6’0, 220, 2026 Shemaj Henry, OT, 6’8, 330, 2026 Josiah Bynum, OT, 6’5, 340, 2026 […]

Chester athlete Daron Harris is staying home, has committed to Temple

June 11, 2025 | Billy Splain

He had many options. UConn, RMU, Syracuse, Kent St, Eastern Carolina, Temple, UMass, Eastern Michigan, Temple, New Hampshire, Bryant, Stony Brook. But in the end, the two time All-State Athlete chose to stay close to home and committed to Temple. Head Coach Dennis Shaw says “He’s one of the top athletes in the state. He […]

District One-5A Playoff Preview: Quarterfinals

November 7, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

Round one mostly went as we would expect. The only upset was number nine Marple Newtown, who shut out the number eight-seeded Falcons of Pottsgrove 20-0. The number one seed in our 5A classification, Springfield (Delco ), easily took care of business against the final seed, Academy Park, 49-6. We now move into round two, […]

District 1-5A Playoff Preview: Round 1

November 1, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

Playoffs, Playoffs, and more playoffs!!! We have concluded the 2024-25 regular season in District One, and the 16-team playoff field is set. The number one seed in our 5A classification is Springfield (Delco) after only dropping one game to 6A #2 seed Downingtown West. Look for the Cougars to make a deep run in the […]

District 1Playoff Matchups Announced

October 27, 2024 | Willie McGonigle

Sunday morning the District 1 Steering Committee had its annual meeting announcing the Playoff Meetings for District 1. 6A: In 6A the defending District 1 Champions Central Bucks South will be the number 1 seed in the playoffs for the second consecutive year they will see Spring-Ford in the playoffs. The full list of matchups are […]

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 […]

District 1 Playoff Picture Entering Week 9

October 13, 2024 | Willie McGonigle

This week marks Week 9 of the Regular season which means that next week marks the last week of the regular season in District 1. With that in mind let’s take a look at what the playoff match-ups would be if the postseason started today. In 6A the reigning District 1 Champion CB South currently […]

Imhotep rallies to dispel Chester’s upset

September 7, 2024 | Mike Livingston

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Imhotep Charter staved off a big time upset against Chester 28-24 Saturday afternoon in Mount Airy. “The main thing was for us to not panic,” “we made our halftime adjustments, took the lead and then took it back but we came back out and showed the heart of a champion and came […]

District 12 Week 2 Preview

September 6, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

We are at Week 2 of the 2024 season and there are some teams who have played their way into the top of the city rankings while a couple have disappointed and fell out of the rankings. The season is still early so there will be much more movement in standings as the season progresses. […]

District 1 Power Rankings: Week 2-Big School

September 3, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

The District 1 Power Rankings after Week 2

Chester runs past and around West Philadelphia High

August 31, 2024 | Anthony Franklin

The Chester Clippers jumped out to an early lead and never looked back against West Philadelphia. The Clippers scored their first touchdown courtesy of senior RB Dayshon Jackson’s 2 yard rushing score to take an early 6-0 lead with 7:57 left in the opening quarter. West Philly had trouble early sustaining drives and moving the […]

PFN’s District One Pre-Season Rankings- Big School

August 21, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

The 2024 high school football season is upon us and the District 1 staff here at PFN has been busy compiling stats and developing our power rankings for all six classifications. We broke them down into two groups. Big School-5A & 6A Small School 1A-4A

2024 Del-Val League Preview

August 20, 2024 | Willie McGonigle

Last season the Chester Clippers had a historic season reaching the District 1 5A championship game for the first time in program history. Chichester under first-year coach Chris Craig had their best season in recent memory. Traditional powers Academy Park, Interboro, and Penn Wood had down seasons. This season promises to be great season for […]

District One’s Top Returning Players 2024 Edition- DL

July 18, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

The 2024 Football season is fast approaching. Heading into the new season I wanted to break down some of the top returning talent in District 1. As you can see from the link, the district comprises 70 different teams. I constructed a list of Players and stats from this past season. The top 10 players […]