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How does Worcester Academy Figure in the Hiring of the Miami Dolphins Head Coach?
New Miami Dolphins’ head coach, Joe Philbin, did a post graduate year at Worcester Academy (a coed boarding school in Worcester, MA) during the 1979-80 academic year.
Read MoreLocal Players Find Opportunity in Blue Ridge School Football
The annual rivalry between Blue Ridge School and St. Anne’s-Belfield School earned a storyline on NBC affiliate WVIR this past Thursday (Albermarle Natives Lead Blue Ridge Football). Blue Ridge features three local Albermarle players leading the team Cameron Anderson, Mayn Francisco, and Andre Roberts. Blue Ridge coach Del Smith describes them as “program type players.” [...]
Read MoreLittle Known World of the Long-Snapper Received Some Boarding School Attention
The little known world of the long-snapper received some boarding school attention. Sam Rogers, a rising senior at Mercersburg Academy recently committed to play football at Syracuse University for Orange coach Doug Marrone. If you’re unfamiliar with the whole notion of long snapping, the long snapper is a specialty position in football that requires the [...]
Read MoreSt. Stanislaus College Takes the Mississippi Class 4A Football Title
Following-up Friday”s post, “Boarding School Playing for the State 4A Mississippi High School Championship,” St. Stanislaus College led by star Dylan Farvre took the Lafayette Commodores 35-16. “…Favre, who owns basically every passing record in state history, threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more to lead St. Stanislaus (14-1, ranked No. 5 in [...]
Read MoreHow A Prep School Rivalry Became A Long Term Grudge
Rivalries aren’t limited to college football. They exist at all levels of sport and prep school football holds some long and storied rivalries in Exeter vs. Andover, Kent vs. Loomis for the spoon…Always fun are the how’s and why’s of how a particular rivalry began. On Worcester Academy‘s WA Mash is the story how a [...]
Read MoreGritti Brings World of Experience to Kents Hill School Football
Steve Gritti’s travels as coach through the professional and collegiate ranks have now brought him to Kents Hill School where he’s taken over as head coach. So how does a coach with professional and collegiate coaching experience come to Kents Hill? Jim Smucker, Kents Hill AD told the Kennebec Journal (Gritti Brings Intensity to Huskies): [...]
Read MorePawling to Palo Alto: Shane Skov Hits the Field for the Cardinal
Mark Purdy of The San Jose Mercury News published a profile of Trinity-Pawling Alumnus and Stanford Freshman, Shane Skov in last Wednesday’s paper (Stanford’s Interesting Freshman). Purdy chronicles Skov’s development as an American football player in Mexico, to Trinity-Pawling School and now to Stanford. “…From south of the border … to east of the Catskills… [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling Alumnus Dillon Quinn Joins the Boston College Defensive Line
Just a couple of months removed from Trinity-Pawling School, Dillon Quinn fights to learn the techniques and discipline of becoming a sound, major college defensive lineman. Boston College defensive coordinator Bill McGovern told the Boston Globe (Quinn Could Offer Eagles Raw Power): “He’s an interesting kid. Obviously, he’s physically imposing. But like any young guy [...]
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