PA Football News Archives
January 2024
2024 Interview with two-sport athlete Madyx Gruber from Wilson West Lawn High School
January 28, 2024 | David Burnworth
Big things are in store for this hard-working future star. Keep your eyes on him not only this coming season but in 2025 too. Madyx Gruber Wilson High School Wr/Db 2025 Entering the 2023 season, what personal goals had you set for yourself, and did you hit the goals? My personal goals going into the […]
Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Top Rusher Edition
October 25, 2023 | Phil Myers
Protime’s weekly column that 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. My 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 […]
Conversation with Coach – Doug Dahms, Wilson West Lawn
September 27, 2023 | Phil Myers
Cover picture via Bulldog Hour Doug Dahms never wanted to be the head football coach at Wilson West Lawn or anywhere else for that matter. Yet after 30 years as an assistant to three different coaches at Wilson, what changed his mind? To top it off, he only agreed to be the head coach for […]
Central Dauphin Outlasts Wilson in OT in a Instant Classic.
September 2, 2023 | Brian Ptashinski
Central Dauphin Rams earn huge win with an overtime decision Friday night. WEST LAWN- Yes it is just the second week of the high school football season, but for both Wilson and Central Dauphin Friday night it felt like both were playing for their post-season lives. Both the Rams and the Bulldogs were coming off […]
The Greatest Games I Ever Saw (Part 5 – Both Teams Score 30 Some Points)
April 28, 2023 | Phil Myers
(Note: This is a multi-part series of weekly articles that will appear every Friday through June regarding all of Pennsylvania’s greatest games I’ve seen from the 1970s through 2022. I was just a young whipper-snapper in the 60s, joined the Marines in the 70s, and didn’t get to witness many games in the 80s. From […]
2023 PFN Player Profile: Getting to know Wilson lineman Jack Dendall
April 19, 2023 | Billy Splain
Jack Dendall OL/ DL Wilson West Lawn Class Of 2024 Jersey #74 HT/WT 6’3″ / 265 lb Other sports Lacrosse 1st Team All-Berks County Junior Year (Honorable Mention 10th Grade), 1st Team All District the last 2 years, 2023 Lacrosse Captain Twitter @dendall_jack Currently holds offer from Maine Coach Doug Dahms says Jack is “Big […]
District 3 Puts Nine on the Big 33 Roster
February 17, 2023 | Phil Myers
District 3 is more than well represented as they land 9 players on the Big 33 roster. Bishop McDevitt leads the way with 3, Harrisburg has 2, and York Suburban, Dallastown, Central Dauphin East, and Wilson West Lawn each have 1 representative on the team. Mikey Bentivegna But it’s York Suburban’s Mikey Bentivegna who makes […]
Wilson beats Penn Manor 40-6 to improve to 3-3 on the year
October 2, 2021 | Pat Weider
Wilson Head Coach Doug Dahms talking to his team after a 40-6 win on Friday Night after Penn Manor Wilson came into the game against Penn Manor on a 2 game losing streak and with a 2-3 record. Wilson left the game with a 40-6 win over Penn Manor Friday Night. In typical Wilson fashion, […]
RECAP: ‘Classic’ Wilson overpowers Hempfield
October 5, 2018 | Joe Mays
The Bulldogs capped the 2018 Baseballtown Gridiron Classic in style with a 26-16 victory over Hempfield at FirstEnergy Stadium. Wilson jumped out to a 13-0 lead and got some key defensive plays throughout to improve to 3-0 in Section 1 play. A balanced offensive attack – 164 yards rushing, 142 yards passing – and clutch […]
Owls pick up a Bulldog, @RyanSilvious60 commits to Temple
September 23, 2018 | Billy Splain
Today Temple football got better with a verbal commitment from Wilson (West Lawn) OT/DE Ryan Silvious. The Senior is in his first season as a starter at Left Tackle and is a part of the Bulldogs rotation along the Defensive Line. His size – 6’5″ and 252 lbs – and passion for the game caught […]
RECAP: Shorthanded Wilson overpowers Penn Manor
September 21, 2018 | Joe Mays
All week long Wilson head coach Doug Dahms was concerned with his team’s depth – or lack thereof – entering Friday night’s Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1 opener against Penn Manor in West Lawn. Those thoughts were unfounded as Dahms’ squad blanked the visiting Comets, 44-0, rebounding from their 4th Quarter collapse against Manheim Central last […]
RECAP: Bulldogs crumble late, fall to Barons
September 15, 2018 | Joe Mays
The Bulldogs put together a solid effort Friday night in Manheim, outplaying the favored and more polished Barons for 36 minutes. Unfortunately, PA high school football games are a full 48 minutes and it was in the final stanza, the last 720 seconds of game time, that Wilson slipped. In a big way. Manheim Central, […]
RECAP: Wilson (3) outlasts Spring-Ford, 33-22
September 8, 2018 | Joe Mays
The Wilson Bulldogs improved to 2-1 on the 2018 season after a 33-22 victory over the visiting Spring-Ford Rams, who dropped their first contest and fell to 2-1. The home team got on the board early thanks to twin TD tosses from senior QB Anthony Futrick to junior WR Brady Gibble, one each in the […]
RECAP: Central Dauphin takes control, dispatches Wilson (3) with ease
August 25, 2018 | Joe Mays
Two of the most prestigious and consistent programs in all of District 3 met during Week 0 of the 2018 PIAA football season, though you wouldn’t know it based on the performance of one of the teams. Unfortunately for Bulldogs fans, the players wearing red and white were sloppy in the first half and overwhelmed […]
2018 Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1 Preview
August 10, 2018 | Joe Mays
A rainbow in the sky over John Gurski Stadium as the Wilson football team takes the field prior to their non-league game vs Central Dauphin on Friday, September 15th, 2017. 2018 Lancaster-Lebanon League, Section 1 PREVIEW INTRO The number 13 is lucky for fans of Pennsylvania high school football this year as it signifies the […]
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