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 2003 High School Schedule 2003 High School Standings 2003 High School Playoffs 2003 The Tenth Game |
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2003 High School Schedule 2003 High School Standings 2003 High School Playoffs 2003 The Tenth Game |
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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 By Jerome Michaels The news around the league traveled fast when Eastern upset the number one seeded team during the first round of the South Jersey Group IV playoffs. An eighth seeded team had done something that usually never happens. When the Vikings traveled to Cherokee and put 50 points on the scoreboard to advance to the finals with their double overtime thriller, nothing was impossible in their minds when they stepped onto the field against Washington Township. Quarterback Anthony Orio engineered two impressive scoring drives against a swarming Minutemen defense to jump out to what seemed a comfortable lead. It would be the Vikings defense that finally held off Township’s last attempt to tie the game and preserve their 14-7 victory. Eastern would celebrate it’s first group championship. |
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Monday, December 8, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It has been a tale of two schools looking to prove their football program should get the recognition they fully deserved. The third seeded Rams from Overbrook had definitely earned the respect that they were a team to reckon with by making it to the South Jersey Group II title game against top seed West Deptford. Having to deal with one of the top backs in the area, Overbrook were ready to take on the Eagles running attack led by Tom Walls. West Deptford used that proven running game to methodically march down the field and clearly winning the time of possession. Those time consuming drives did not give the Rams a chance to overcome West Deptford’s 17-12 second consecutive title victory. The Eagles finished the season with a perfect 12-0 record. |
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Saturday, November 29, 2003 By Jason Brown When the Eagles from West Deptford congratulated each other after their game on Saturday afternoon, they had just completed their 11th straight victory without a loss. It would seem as if it was a hard fought season with last minutes field goals or touchdown runs. Well, no. West Deptford has dominated teams behind the running of Tom Walls, throwing by Anthony Scirrotto and a relentless defense. Paulsboro, who dominated this Thanksgiving rivalry for a long time, were shout down and shut out by that very same defense. West Deptford’s 20-0 victory has given a lot for Overbrook to think about for their upcoming South Jersey Group II match-up on Friday night. |
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Thursday, November 27, 2003 By Jerome Michaels After being shutout in their season opener to Delran, Palmyra won 5 of their next 6 games that propelled them into the playoffs. Unfortunately for Ty Belford’s Panthers, they would lose to Glassboro in the first round. As for Burlington City, the Blue Devils had a rough start but finished the season strong. These two met on Thanksgiving Day and gave the Burlington City’s fans something to cheer about. Quarterback Matt Marshall threw 3 touchdown passes and Nolan Sigler scored twice highlighting the Blue Devils’ 24-7 victory. |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 By Jerome Michaels It’s a moment that signifies the beginning of the winter months are just around the corner when football is played on a Wednesday night. Throughout the area, there will be classic match ups between teams that know each other very well. The Silver Knights from Sterling were playing host to the Panthers from Collingswood in their traditional Thanksgiving rivalry. Scoring in every quarter, Sterling’s quarterback Matt Sheridan accounted for four of the five Knight’s touchdowns and easily defeated the Panthers by a 33-7 margin. |
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Saturday, November 22, 2003 By Vincent Lewis Glassboro did their homework preparing for their semi-final football battle against the Thundering Herd from Woodbury High School. Score as many points possible and hope it would be enough to advance to the South Jersey Group I finals. That theory lasted for one half of this game as the Bulldogs early lead quickly dissipated in the second half. Woodbury’s defense kept the pressure on Glassboro and gave their offense excellent field position for runningback Chris Pressley to score three consecutive touchdowns. Woodbury recorded the 27-14 victory and will now travel to take on Schalick for the title. |
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Saturday, November 22, 2003 By Jerome Michaels During the pre-game warm-ups, you couldn’t miss seeing the Spartans joining in with the Toms River South marching band’s fight theme. Deptford was confident and they would back it up on the field during their semi-final match-up with the fourth seeded Indians. Twenty-one first half points were more than enough points to advance to the finals since 1998. Keeping their perfect 10-0 record in tact, Deptford’s defense highlighted their 35-6 victory to earn a berth in the South Jersey Group III title game against Hammonton. |
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Friday, November 21, 2003 By Jerome Michaels There are some who would rather watch a college football game because of the excitement generated by an offense's ability to put a ton of points on the scoreboard. The National Football League can be a bit too slow at times where Saturday afternoon you could find fans glued to the television watching their favorite collegiate team. Friday night at Cherokee High School in front of a packed stadium, the Chiefs and the Vikings from Eastern put on one of the most exciting football games ever played in this area. With the game tied twice with just less than four minutes remaining in regulation, it took two overtime periods to decide this South Jersey Group IV semifinals matchup. Eastern’s Anthony Orio not only scored the winning touchdown in their 50-43 decision, he also came up with the game winning interception to seal the Vikings victory. |
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Friday, November 21, 2003 By Vincent Lewis The South Jersey Group IV football bracket has not gone the way that most would have guessed. With the top four seeds knocked out of the playoffs, the lower seeds rule on this day as the sixth seeded Minutemen from Washington Township were hosting the Braves from Absegami. Both of these teams were responsible for ending Shawnee and Toms River East quest for the title and were looking to send one more team home. Jesse Cooper had a lot to do with Township’s 49-7 victory to advance to the finals and play the winner of the Eastern-Cherokee game. |
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Saturday, November 15, 2003 By Jason Brown Paulsboro has dominated the South Jersey Group I playoffs for a very long time. And for a very long time the Lions from Gloucester City was the team that Paulsboro rolled all over them towards their journey in capturing a group title. All of that ended Saturday afternoon at Paulsboro High School for Gloucester. The Lions defense was hungry and came up big in the second half of this first round of the South Jersey Group I playoff game. By keeping the Red Raiders scoreless, Gloucester posted a 15-0 victory to advance to the next round against the top seeded Cougars from Schalick. |
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Saturday, November 15, 2003 By Vincent Lewis Knowing you’re the number one seeded team and playing as if you are that top seeded team can be difficult. For the Spartans from Deptford High School, it looked as if they were not happy with their 14-point lead at the half. They would be happy with the final results as the defense stepped up and were able to shut down Kingsway’s offense. After recording their 27-0 victory against the eight-seeded Dragons, the players knew there could have been more points put on the scoreboard. Deptford will be looking to increase their unbeated streak to ten games when they face Toms River South. |
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Saturday, November 15, 2003 By Jerome Michaels Overbrook took one step closer in proving their football program has come a long way during the past few years of rebuilding. Several reasons for their recent success is a result of coaching, the running game, defense and the addition of Frank Wilczynski. The versatile player not only can call the plays as the quarterback, he also catches touchdowns as well. During their first time matchup against the Bears from Delran, Overbrook wasted little time putting this game out of reach. After scoring all the points they needed in the first quarter, the Rams ran away with a 34-14 win. Frank Hales scored four times for Overbrook. |
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Friday, November 14, 2003 By Vincent Lewis The Quakers started their quest for a group title off to a good start against the Bulldogs from Haddonfield Friday night in Moorestown. What was impressive were the twenty-five points put on the scoreboard before halftime. The not so impressive were the turnovers in this game that did not really hurt Moorestown at all. Tailback Steve Phillips had a banner day scoring two touchdowns while his counterpart Al Pierce also had a successful day running the ball. Moorestown advanced to the next round with their 39-7 victory over Haddonfield. |
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Saturday, November 8, 2003 By Jason Brown It was one of those games that for mostly the entire game, neither team could execute the perfect play springing that player for a touchdown. In a game that the defense were the ones celebrating their play, it would be the offense that would be left out in the cold. The Warriors from New Egypt had the slight edge against host Burlington City having their chance to put points on the board, but sometimes the home field does have its advantages. With the final quarter clock ticking down under two minutes to play, runningback Greg Hodgson broke the scoreless tie with his 44-yard touchdown run giving the Blue Devils the win. |
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Saturday, November 8, 2003 By Jerome Michaels Both Florence and Palmyra were undefeated in the Freedom division, each winning five divisional games in a row. Both teams have played well enough to earn berths into the playoffs beginning next week. With all of that said, you would have expected one of those classic battles each fighting for the title. From the opening kickoff, the Flashes from Florence were hungry to demonstrate why they were undefeated in eight straight games. Shutting down Palmyra’s offense, Florence’s defense kept their opponent scoreless while the offense put 49 points on the scoreboard. With the win, Florence has clinched the Freedom Division title. |
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Saturday, November 8, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It was a game that both teams wanted badly to either maintain or move up a seed for the upcoming post season. Deptford and Overbrook had earned a berth into the playoffs, but both had their sights set on the top position of their bracket. With a win, the Rams from Overbrook had a chance to move closer to the number one seed in the South Jersey Group 2 bracket. The Spartans had other plans, as they would maintain their top seed placement in the Group 3 bracket with their 40-21 victory at home. Deptford’s second half explosion kept their regular season record clean of any loses winning eight games in a row. |
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Friday, November 7, 2003 By Jerome Michaels For the first quarter of this Tri-County Conference Royal Division game, it looked as if Clearview would have a chance of upsetting the Crusaders from Delsea. Holding only a seven-point lead going into the second quarter, the Crusaders dominating defense made its statement by scoring a touchdown. That’s when Josh Reimel took over and rushed for two-second half touchdowns and Delsea never looked back. The defense held Clearview in check and kept them scoreless as Delsea ran away with the 34-0 win at home. |
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Saturday, November 1, 2003 By Vincent Lewis For the seventh time this season, the much-improved Rams from Overbrook and the Rams from Gloucester Catholic were participating in yet another divisional football game. Every game this season has been against another team from their Tri-County Royal division making each game all that important to win. Needing a win desperately, the Gloucester Catholic Rams proved that they could win that big game. After trailing by a touchdown, Catholic scored two-second quarter touchdowns and posted a 22-13 win to clinch a playoff position. |
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Friday, October 31, 2003 By Jerome Michaels It was supposed to be a battle between two talented backs and a very competitive game that would possibly come down to a last second field goal or touchdown. Woodbury’s Chris Pressley and West Deptford’s Tom Walls have been giving defensive coordinators nightmares on how to contain them from picking up huge amount of yards against opposing defenses. The Eagles forced three quick turnovers and the offense capitalized on each resulting in 21 points. Woodbury didn’t have a chance after that to recovery with West Deptford winning this Colonial Conference match up 38-6 Friday night. |
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Sunday, October 26, 2003 By Valerie Kinney As a highlight of the newly formed partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles, the "Auntie Anne's Kickoff Kid Sweepstakes" gives one child per game the chance to run and retrieve the kicking tee from the home team's kickoff during each regular season Eagles football game held at Lincoln Financial Field. Eleven-year-old Billy Doyle, Jr. of Hammonton, N.J. was that kid during the Sunday’s Eagles game against the New York Jets from the sidelines. Billy was the winner of Auntie Anne's Kickoff Kid Sweepstakes and ran and retrieved the kicking tee after the Eagles kick-off. Billy entered the sweepstakes at the Auntie Anne's Game Tent located in the Headhouse Plaza at Lincoln Financial Field. Between now and Nov. 21, individuals can visit a participating location and complete an entry form. |
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Saturday, October 25, 2003 By Jerome Michaels The play spoke for itself about how both of these team’s season has gone so far. A lateral pass that is dropped, bounced around and then picked up and ran in for a touchdown. Willingboro took advantage of its chances by dominating the Panthers from Camden High. With the playoff cut-off date just around the corner, Willingboro and Camden were both looking to pick up an important division win. The Chimeras took control of their 21-6 victory by executing the plays and never giving up. |
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Friday, October 24, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It was a defensive battle that both head coaches had to be proud about their performances. Just like a chess match, the coaching staff was working hard looking for the right time to move in for the checkmate. The Minutemen from Washington Township played extremely well on defense and were looking to hand Shawnee their first loss of the season. It wasn’t easy, but the Renegades from Shawnee were the ones that took advantage of the limited chances handed to them by their defense. A second quarter touchdown and field goal was enough points for the Renegades to win their sixth straight game by a 10-0 margin. |
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Saturday, October 18, 2003 By Jerome Michaels It was a play that photographers would have dreamt about being in the right place at the right time. A clean hit that just knocked the helmet off of a player that could be heard throughout the city of Camden. That play alone signified how this game went for three quarters…fierce, hard hitting and good ol’ in your face trash talking. Oh yeah, this was a football game between the Fighting Irish from Camden Catholic traveling to the homecoming game of the Tigers from Woodrow Wilson. The Irish continued what they have been doing all season long and that was winning games. After jumping out to a three touchdown lead, Camden Catholic dashed any hopes of Wilson rallying in the second half by matching their opponent’s aggressive play. Camden Catholic’s Quran Barge scored four times highlighting their 38-7 win. |
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Friday, October 17, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It was a chance for Lindenwold to gain those all-important power points coming down to the cutoff date. The Eagles from West Deptford provided them with an opportunity that the Lions were ready for the challenge. An early first quarter lead quickly dashed the hopes of Lindenwold knocking off the undefeated and division leading West Deptford football team. Scoring thirty-one unanswered points, the Eagles went into Lindenwold and came away with the 31-6 Colonial Conference win. |
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Saturday, October 11, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It was a game that the Spartans would be able to talk about for a long time. Coming short of scoring a touchdown themselves, Deptford’s defense came up big forcing turnovers and making it easy for their offense to operate. Unfortunately for the visiting Rams from Gloucester Catholic, they were the victims of their own mistakes after showing their ability to run the ball successfully when needed. All three of Deptford’s touchdowns were the result of the defense coming up with big time hits and pressure on the quarterback. The Spartans remained unbeaten, 4-0, with their Tri-County Conference Royal Division 25-12 victory. |
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Friday, October 10, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It’s the game that always stirs up the debate about which team is better than the other. Discussions about previous encounters with their familiar opponent have gone back as far as five to ten years ago. That was the main focus of conversation before the classic football match up took place Friday evening at Shawnee High School. In front of a packed house, the Chiefs from Cherokee proved they could move the ball on offense. It would be their inability of converting those critical third down plays that did them in. The Renegades would strike quickly scoring three times in the second quarter that allowed them to remain undefeated. Shawnee would walk off the field at the end of this Burlington/Olympic Conference American Division game with a 21-0 score. |
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Sunday, October 5, 2003 By John Marcucci On the road for their first away game against the Willingboro Panthers the Minutemen had a 45-minute bus ride with the coaching staff going over the game plan for today’s match-up. After the past two weeks of injuries the Minutemen’s coaching staff headed by Anthony Astorga, put their heads together and tried to jockey positions around attempting to come up with a solution for the banged up Minutemen. As the game got under way, it seemed like the Minutemen were struggling with the offensive and defensive line assignments. The Panthers a big team but not a very fast team seemed to move the ball well against our defense, which put pressure on the Minutemen’s defensive backfield and secondary. |
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Saturday, October 4, 2003 By Charlie Barker After leading 20-0 in the first half, the Lindenwold Lions held off a surge by the Green Wave of Audubon in the third quarter to take home the 20-12 victory. Lindenwold's quarterback, sophomore Ricky Pisaturo, threw touchdown passes of 37 and 57 yards to lead the Lions' offense. |
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Friday, October 3, 2003 By Vincent Lewis The way this game started out, it looked as if the Chiefs wouldn’t need to rally from a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat the Chimeras from Willingboro. Cherokee’s senior runningback Marc Orosz has demonstrated that he has the ability plow through an interior defense and gain huge amount of yardage for a touchdown. Willingboro was a witness to that on the Chiefs first play from scrimmage, but it didn’t effect them too much as they had scored twenty unanswered points in the second and third quarters. Cherokee’s ground game keyed their 26-20 interdivision home victory and remained undefeated and on top of the American Division. |
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Saturday, September 27, 2003 By Jerome Michaels It was a lead that seemed to be enough to give their team the confidence they needed to win this game. But no lead is safe especially when there’s still two more quarters of football to play. Burlington Township scored all of their points in the second quarter and took that lead into the locker room at the half. Bordentown began to chip away from their 20-point deficit, but came up short. The Scotties efforts to pick up their second win of the season fell short. Burlington Township would hold on to the 20-14 Burlington Olympic Conference meeting. |
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Saturday, September 27, 2003 By Art Redd It was quite simple what the game plan was Saturday morning at Woodbury High School. A steady dose of the Thundering Herd’s running back attack until it wore down their opponent’s defense, giving way to let Marvin McKinnie and Chris Pressley do what they do best. It took some time and once the Herd was in motion, Haddon Heights was unable to stop Woodbury for overcoming an early 7-point deficit. Pressley scored 3 times in the second half and compiled 129 yards rushing to lead Woodbury to a 27-7 victory. McKinnie was all over the place both on offense, defense and special teams. |
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South Jersey Youth Football: Saturday, September 27, 2003 By John Marcucci Saturday night under a black sky waiting for the rain, the Minutemen began warming up for their fourth showdown, against the Deptford Tigers. Still plagued by injuries from the previous game, some of the Minutemen’s key players #80 Fran Maxwell, #57 Curt Abrams, #40 Anthony Astorga were still sidelined for this game. |
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Friday, September 26, 2003 By Gregory "Graig" White Football is a game of inches; in this case 72 inches, or 2 yards, that was the distance Nathaniel Brown had to travel to go for the winning touchdown. Camden and Cherry Hill West met in an afternoon game that showed how far the teams had come. Camden rolled up 410 yards in total offense and at times looked really good doing it. Cherry Hill West, whose offense was not nearly as cohesive, found a way to claw, scratch and find itself in the game well into the fourth quarter. |
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Thursday, September 25, 2003 By Vincent Lewis The coaching staff on the sideline of Camden Catholic remained calm when the start of this game looked as if the upset-minded Pirates from Cinnaminson might have the emotional edge after scoring on their first play of the game. Their patience was tested up until the second quarter when the Irish offense finally kicked into high gear and then never looked back after breaking the seven all tie. Runningback Mike McIlwain scored twice, quarterback Sean Scanlon threw for one and scored a touchdown himself and the defense got into the scoring act posting a 48-13 road victory. |
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Sunday, September 21, 2003 By John Marcucci Football is what it’s all about and it was just that for the Washington Twp. Minutemen in their third scheduled match-up against the Medford Indians. The Minutemen coaching staff were forced to make some last minute changes to the backfield and on defense, due to the fact that #10 Kyle Nolan was unable to attend the game. #26 running back Vincent Marcucci would step into the quarterback position, #33 Dan Hearn would assume the #2 back slot, #80 Fran Maxwell would take over the tight end spot. Although head coach Anthony Astorga and assistants Pat Healey, John Dunbar, Leon Pirillo and Denny McGrail didn’t have much time to polish the boys in their new assignments, they did a fine job in preparing the Minutemen for an exciting football game. |
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Saturday, September 20, 2003 By Jason Brown There had to be a sigh of relief coming from the Pennsauken Indians Saturday afternoon. New head coach Reggie Lawrence finally showed the hometown fans that his system does work. The offense got a slow start, but it was the second quarter second scoring drive that put all the plays together for the Indians. On that drive, quarterback Russell Love engineered a scoring drive that was capped off with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Nate Taylor. The Indians defense held Rancocas Valley scoreless that gave Pennsauken the 45-0 victory at home. |
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Saturday, September 20, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It’s never any fun going up against an opponent at the start of a new season that has dominated a conference for the past several years. Both Gateway and Haddon Township were faced with that task last week against their divisional champs from last year. This week they had the luxury of playing one another looking for their first win of the season. Each team would be happy to finally put some points on their side of the scoreboard, but it would be Gateway who would score more that the Hawks from Haddon Township. The Gators evened their record at 1-1 by posting the 41-16 victory. |
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College Football Spotlight: Saturday, September 20, 2003 By Pat Harmon This Week In College Football History steps back in time to look at some of football's greatest highlights, record-breaking performances, and interesting facts, which have shaped the game into what it is today. Throughout the season, many of this column's items are depicted in a changing exhibit at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana. |
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Saturday, September 20, 2003 By Graig White Pitman coach Guy Davidson said it all. “Unfortunately for us, we often have to run up against perennially one of the top teams in the conference in game one. Our program is not to that level yet and we’re certainly still working to get there.” The Panthers played with a lot of heart and it was evident that they did everything they could humanly do but on this day it was all Salem. The fact they finished the game at all was an accomplishment and the final score of 20-0 really didn’t tell the story. |
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Friday, September 19, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It was Highland’s first home game of the season and they were ready to show off their powered blue uniforms to their home crowd. Not even the threat of rain slowed down the crowd from coming into the gates to watch their team. For Delsea, this Tri-County Conference Royal Division game meant a bit more to fullback Josh Reimel. The news traveled quickly about the unexpected death of his older brother. His ability to play under those circumstances were remarkable and he showed his dedication to the game by scoring three touchdowns against Highland Friday night. Delsea went on to win the game by a score of 34-8. |
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Friday, September 19, 2003 By Jerome Michaels With just the second week of high school football upon us, the coaching staff is still finding ways of getting those all important victories early in the season. With the playbook still warm off the printer, players are fine tuning their ability to execute their plays well enough for an entire game. Both the Riverside Rams and the Bears from Delran won their first game and were looking to continue to keep that losing column clear of any losses. Delran’s early success running the ball gave their home crowd a lot to cheer about during the first half of this game. Anthony Riess made the most of his carries, especially his 65-yard touchdown run in the first quarter that highlighted Delran’s 20-6 victory over the Rams. |
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Saturday, September 13, 2003 By Charlie Barker After ending last year's promising season with four straight losses, Lenape was looking for a fresh start in 2003. Senior running back Zeb Davis gave it to them by taking the opening kickoff 91 yards in for the score. Those six points would be more that enough as the Indians would hold on to defeat Rancocas Valley 12-0 in their season opener. |
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South Jersey Youth Football: Saturday, September 13, 2003 By John Marcucci In their second regular season home game, the Washington Twp. Minutemen started out slow against the Gibbsboro Vikings. In the first quarter the Vikings were to receive and ran right at the Minutemen on a solid drive up field to score. |
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Friday, September 12, 2003 By Vincent Lewis There were so many questions that had to be answered not only for the Camden Catholic versus Moorestown football game, but also for all area high school programs as the start of another season has come upon us. For the Quakers hosting the Irish, both teams loss key players to their offense and were left with the issue of can they still performance competitively without them. Sophomore starting quarterback Sean Scanlon is the new signal caller for Camden Catholic and he answered several key questions. The Irish scored all the game’s points in the first half and the defense took care of the rest giving them a 16-0 victory. |
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South Jersey Youth Football: Saturday, September 6, 2003 By John Marcucci It was opening game under the lights at the Washington Twp. football complex as our Minutemen took the field against the Seneca Eagles. Winning the toss the Minutemen would march up field as the offensive line opened the way for running back#32 Keith Schrumpf and a 20-yard touchdown run. Shrumpf would also contribute with a dazzling display of moves on the first punt return of the game for a 35-yard touchdown. |
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Wednesday, September 3, 2003 By Stephanie Carmichael Pennsauken recently hosted Highland in a football scrimmage. With most teams starting the 2003 football season in less than two weeks, this scrimmage gave players a chance to work on plays and skills in a game like environment. The final score of this scrimmage was not important as both coaching staffs were more interested in the execution of individual plays. |
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High School Football: Monday, September 1, 2003 By Derryk Sellers Well, the summer is gone and now it is time to put on the pads and begin another exciting season of high school football. Who will win the championship? What team will surprise everyone with a late season run? Which team will falter under the intensity of making that post season push? That, my friends, is why we play the games. I can guarantee you one thing, it will be very exciting every week to try to find out who is who. |
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Monday, August 25, 2003 By John Marcucci This was the third scrimmage for our Washington Twp. Minutemen, not to far from home the Minutemen went up against the Monroe Twp. Braves. Another controlled scrimmage by the coaches that was beneficial for both teams before the season begins. |
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South Jersey Youth Football: Saturday, August 23, 2003 By John Marcucci Preparing for the upcoming season, the Minutemen had their second scrimmage at the Washington Twp. Football Complex against the Patriots. This scrimmage is an annual festive event called "The Mayors Cup"; all weight classes from 70lbs. to the unlimited division were represented in a football extravaganza, attended by many families, friends and residents. |
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South Jersey Youth Football: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 By John Marcucci A team to watch, the Washington Twp. "Minutemen" had their first scrimmage against the West Deptford "Eagles". Under the controlled supervision of the coaches at the River Winds Sports Complex, the Minutemen exploded on the first play of the game for a 40 yard touch down run by Keith Schrump. Also adding spice to the backfield is newcomer Vincent Marcucci, whose speed and versatility as running back, quarterback and free safety should be an asset for the Minutemen. |
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Event Spotlight: Thursday, July 24, 2003 By Rich Burg The Philadelphia Eagles have announced the signing of second round draft choice, tight end L.J. Smith, and third round draft choice, wide receiver Billy McMullen. Smith signed a five-year contract and McMullen inked a four-year deal. As is club policy, financial terms of the deals are undisclosed. |
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Friday, June 27, 2003 By Vincent Lewis It was their last chance to showcase their talents for South Jersey as a high school football player. Seniors from area schools participated in the Adam Taliaferro Foundation All-Star Football Classic that was held at Rowan University. The two teams, Blue and White, played evenly for three quarters before the Shawnee connection of quarterback Bill Kurtz and wide receiver Dan McDonald continued their success they had all season long for the Renegades. The two hooked up for two touchdowns and highlighted the Blue team's victory over the White team by a score of 25-10. |
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Event Spotlight: Monday, April 28, 2003 By Bob Lange The Philadelphia Eagles today announced the signing of the following 22 rookie free agents: Chris Downs (5-8, 193) played two seasons at Maryland after a two-year stint at Valley Forge Military Academy. Was the starting tailback as a senior and gained 1,154 yards and 13 TDs on 208 carries, while adding 165 yards and 2 TDs on 18 receptions. The Philadelphia native earned many honors while attending Malvern Prep, including the Inter-Ac League player of the decade. Posted 4,045 yards rushing and 54 TDs (50 rushing) in his prep career. As a senior in 1997, established a single-season city record for rushing yards (2,198) and tied marks for rushing TDs (29) and total TDs (31). |
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