Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Veteran Secaucus High School head football coach Charlie Voorhees is well aware that his program needs to improve after two uncharacteristic down seasons. “It’s funny,” Voorhees said. “You go back and look and see that we’ve won only three games over the last two seasons. You evaluate what you did right and what you did …
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A recent trip down to Rev. James J. Keenan, S.J. Field in downtown Jersey City recently found a host of things going on, some of which was football related, but most of it was construction equipment and crews and what have you. The home of the St. Peter’s Prep football team right off Grand Street …
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Matt Gallo knew full well that he wasn’t going to turn the St. Anthony football program around in the matter of minutes; that it would take a little time to nurture the Friars into an autumn winner like Ed Stinson had when the former Hoboken legend was the coach a few years ago. So the …
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The idea almost seems too unthinkable for words. But here goes: The Snyder High School football team won five games in 2015. Yeah, it’s true. The Tigers went 5-5, the highest win total for the school in more than 20 years. The head coach, former St. Peter’s College standout and Lincoln assistant Ray Marshall was …
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The sun had yet to rise on the roof of Union City High School and a wonderful palace called Roosevelt Stadium, but the Union City High football team was already hard at work. It was 6 a.m. on a recent visit and the Soaring Eagles were already in midseason form, doing their wind sprints and …
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Sean Fallon knows that this is a special year for the Dickinson High School football. It’s the fourth year since the program was brought back from extinction under his watch, so all of the current players are Fallon’s players and not holdovers from another regime. “When I got here, the program was in pretty rough …
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It was a late summer afternoon and there were different sounds coming out of Bruins Stadium and Vincent Ascolese Field inside North Hudson Braddock Park. As one approached the field, the music got a little louder and it was so recognizable. Blaring on the public address system was Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell doing their …
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It’s become part of the fabric, a slice of the tradition that is Hoboken High School football. Plain and simple, if you aspire to be a Redwing (one word), then you better be ready to play football from August to December. There are no shortcuts, no easy ways. The season begins with preseason practices in …
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The temperatures might have been close to 110 degrees on the scorching FieldTurf surface at Harrison High School last weekend, but that didn’t stop three local soccer teams from getting a head start on the upcoming season by participating in the Harrison Soccer Tournament. Although the real-time thermometer read 97 degrees on Saturday, Memorial, St. …
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The 2015 high school football season was a highly successful one for the Lions of Lincoln High School. The Lions won 11 games, setting a new school record for wins in a season. They posted an 11-1 record with the lone loss coming to Raritan on the final play of the game in the NJSIAA …
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