Roman Catholic
October 2025
Philly Catholic League Playoff Preview & City Rankings
October 31, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
City Rankings Top 10 1. La Salle 2. St. Joes Prep 3. Malvern Prep 4. Roman Catholic 5. Bonner-Prendie 6. Imhotep 7. Abraham Lincoln 8. Episcopal Academy 9. Cardinal O’Hara 10. Lansdale HM 1. Archbishop Ryan 2. John Bartram 3. Springside Chestnut Hill 4. Belmont 5. Conwell Egan 6A CL Title Game St Joes Prep […]
Temple nabs two Roman Catholic stars for the 2026 class
October 30, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
Roman Catholic Seniors WR/DB Eyan Stead and WR Ash Roberts both at the same time announced Wednesday afternoon that they are staying in the city of brotherly love and committing to hometown program Temple University which is just a mile north of the Roman campus. Eyan a 5-10 180lb is a two-way star for Roman […]
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 […]
District 12 Week 9 Preview
October 17, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
The 2025 regular season is winding down and entering its final week. Division champions have been crowned in all 4 divisions as Imhotep wrapped up the Independence Division via beating Northeast, Washington & West Philadelphia. They also earned a forfeit win over Gratz. Tep will close out the regular season at Lincoln looking to continue […]
Saint Joes Prep downs Roman Catholic in Stunner
October 12, 2025 | Nicholas Mastripolito
Khy Billups leads the charge in the Preps’ victory over Roman Catholic The Roman Catholic Cahillites hosted Saint Joe’s Prep on the campus of Widener University on Friday night. Here is all the action from that high-scoring nail-biter. Saint Joe’s Prep started with the ball and wasted no time getting its stars involved, with multiple […]
District 12 Week 7 Preview & Notes
October 10, 2025 | Anthony Franklin
District 12 Week 7 Preview: In week 6 we saw contenders be revealed and pretenders be exposed. In the Pub Tep continued to roll through their competition, Belmont and Edison remain undefeated while La Salle earned a huge CL Red Division win over SJ Prep in convincing fashion. Let’s look at the top teams in […]
Ant & Willie’s Pick’em Parade Week 8
October 9, 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 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. […]
PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week of October 2, 2025
October 2, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
Well, the Calendar has turned to one of this writer’s favorite months, October. The leaves are starting to turn, the weather is getting cooler, and games are being played mostly under the stars. Football is really starting to heat up. My apologies for the delay in this week’s posting. It was a hectic weekend last […]
Roman Catholic Defeats La Salle College in Convincing but close Fashion
September 27, 2025 | Patrick Birkhead
DOWN GOES NUMBER ONE! Tonight La Salle College High School faced off against Roman Catholic at Leslie C. Quick Stadium, (Widener University.) The third ranked 5A Cahilletes knocked off number one 6A La Salle by a score of 39-36 and although the Explorers occasionally flashed at life, Roman Catholic controlled this game. The purple and […]
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 […]
Ant & Willie’s Pickem Parade Week 3
September 12, 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 […]
PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly Week of September 10
September 10, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly. While the Philadelphia area may soon be coming down with a case of Pennant Fever with the Phillies regular season ending and the Phightin Phils looking like a playoff team, but you know what else is heating up in Big Willie’s […]
Roman Catholic Gets Going in 2nd Half Survives Chestnut Hill Academy Upset Bid
September 6, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
CHESTER: After opening the season with a battle-tested road game against the North Carolina powerhouse Providence Day, followed by a trip to Florida last week to battle Cardinal Newman, the Roman Catholic Cahillites finally played a game on Pennsylvania soil. The top-ranked team in 5A by PFN Cahillites went 1-1 on their trips. On Friday […]
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 […]
PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ in Philly Week Zero
August 21, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
Hello and welcome to PFN’s Willie is Cookin’ In Philly. I’ve decided to rebrand my weekly notes column from What’s Happening in District I & XII to this. Join me each week as I tell you what’s cookin’ around the Philadelphia Area. PCL Team’s hitting the road to begin season: St Joseph’s Prep and Roman […]
Roman Catholic’s Beals Gives Commitment
July 27, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
One of the more sought-after recruits in the Philadelphia area, Roman Catholic QB Semaj Beals, announced on X Sunday that he committed to the University of Akron. Beals, who also received over 20 offers, including from USC, Alabama, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers, Temple, and Syracuse. Last season, Beals threw for 4135 yards and […]
Roman Catholic’s Gaskin Announces Commitment
July 1, 2025 | Willie McGonigle
Earlier today, Roman Catholic Rising Sr DB Justus Gaskin announced that he was committing to Stoney Brook University. Gasking chose Stoney Brook over Brown, Merrimack, and Army West Point Last season Gaskin made 48 tackles and had one fumble recovery for the Cahillites, who went 11-5 and fell 34-31 in Overtime to Bishop McDevitt in […]
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 […]
PIAA “states Experience” Vlog Episode 2
December 28, 2024 | EJ Samuel
States weekend was a blast, and we figured we would bring you along to experience it with us! Our very own EJ Samuel (D2) takes you along with us the entire weekend to see what the it entails in a “vlog” style. In this episode of the “States Experience” we were met with 2 fantastic […]
Roman Catholic earns 5 PA Writers All State 5A Selections
December 28, 2024 | Anthony Franklin
After a historical season in which Roman Catholic won the Catholic League 5A title, their first District 12 title and advanced to their first state title game in program history. Head coach Rick Prete led Roman to a 11-5 record where they fell just short in overtime to Bishop McDevitt High School in the championship […]
Bishop McDevitt Roman Catholic Game Highlight Reel
December 7, 2024 | Shane Lux
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Roman Catholic Loses Heartbreaker to Bishop McDevitt in Overtime 34-31
December 7, 2024 | Phil Myers
The Roman Catholic Cahillites battled back from a 21-3 deficit early in the third quarter to eventually take a 31-28 lead on a pick six half way through the fourth quarter only to lose the game in overtime on an apparent tipped field goal that just made it over the crossbar by inches. It was […]
