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Charlie Voorhees knows that he definitely has a full-fledged football program at Secaucus High School. After all, Voorhees has been in charge of the grid program at Secaucus for 11 years now and has watched the cycle keep spinning year after year. A good group of kids graduates and moves on, then another crop of …

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Carrying on a Secaucus winning traditionPatriots dominate in league, but can they make the next step?”

A year ago, the Union City High School football team was thrown together for the first time, combining the programs of both former schools, namely Emerson and Union Hill. It was a lot to ask of head coach Joe Rotondi, the former coach at Union Hill, who was selected to lead the new united program. …

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Losing a plethora of talented players to graduation, including a bunch that moved on to play college football, is one thing. But when you lose a host of others to injury before you play a single game the following season, well, you have the recipe for troubled times. That’s the scenario that the perennially powerful …

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There’s no question that Vince Ascolese would love to wipe the calendar year of 2008 from his already impressive and legendary memory book. The long-time head football coach at North Bergen High School, who ranks second among active New Jersey high school coaches in career victories with 326, had to endure both professional and personal …

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Bruins, Ascolese try to forget lost seasonGranddaddy of Hudson grid coaches mentors grandson, as NB looks to rebound”

Rich Glover never thought that he would experience the kind of troubles he has endured since he took the Dickinson High School head football coaching position three years ago. The former Snyder High School standout and University of Nebraska All-American nose guard who won the Outland Trophy and the Lombardi Trophy as the nation’s best …

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Brian Meeney begins his fourth season as the head football coach at Memorial High School this weekend and he knows that this is a big season for the Tigers. “The bottom line is that we have kids who played varsity as freshmen and this is now their fourth year of varsity football,” Meeney said. “They …

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In each of the last three seasons, Wilbur Valdez was sure that his Ferris High School football team did the right thing. The Bulldogs worked hard, practiced hard and played hard, posting more wins than they had defeats – which was an abnormality at all the Jersey City public schools, but became a reality at …

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Ferris looks to get past playoff disappointmentsBulldogs face better schedule, better chance of Group III berth”

Robert Hampton is a huge music buff. The head coach of the Lincoln High School football team can rattle off recording artists and the years of their greatest hits faster than Casey Kasem. So that’s why Hampton is calling upon his music knowledge to refer to his team’s hopes and chances this season. “We don’t …

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When you ask the St. Anthony High School football players about what happened last year, they don’t even want to utter a word about it. “Actually, I really don’t like talking about it,” said junior running back David Coleman, who entered the Hudson County high school football scene with a huge splash last September with …

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After playing a predominantly easy schedule, thanks to the constraints of the old HCIAA regulations, for over a decade, the St. Peter’s Prep football team will take on a host of challenges in the regular season that begin next Sunday at Rutgers Stadium. When the Marauders take on nationally-ranked St. Joseph’s Prep of Philadelphia to …

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New league, new schedule, same goals for MaraudersPrep has size, skill and talent to make state title run”