Bill Sytsma, like so many inner-city high school football coaches, is more than a football coach. Earlier this month, the head coach of the Frankford Pioneers lost one of his players to gun violence in Northeast Philadelphia. Angelo Walker was…
The Borough of Mount Carmel is home to Pennsylvania’s all-time winningest high school football team. The Red Tornadoes head into 2020 with 866 victories, which puts them No. 6 on America’s all-time wins list. Current Kansas City Chief General Manager…
After weeks of writing mostly coronavirus pandemic high school football stories, I decided that it was time to return to my weekly column called First & Fisher that I began writing when we took High School Football America to Los…
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association put a smile on a lot of faces on Wednesday. The PIAA says it’s moving forward with opening Fall camps on-time on August 10. PIAA is moving forward with start of the Fall Sports Season…
Two-time Pennsylvania state champ Gary Satterwhite, a center and defensive tackle of the Farrell Steelers in western Pennsylvania, is now a member of the scoutSMART® High School Football America Academic All-American Watch List. Satterwhite, who is in the Class of…
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf released guidelines for the return of sports from high school to the pros on Wednesday. The bottom line to the regulations is that if a Pennsylvania county is in its “Green or Yellow Phase,” summer workouts…
Hope for a 2020 Pennsylvania high school football season rose on Wednesday after the Pennsylvania Interscholatic Athletic Association Board of Control gave PIAA Executive Director Bob Lombardi the authority to permit offseason sports workouts prior the July 1 suspension date…
While we all wait for news of when high school football can resume, there’s a nationwide competition on Twitter to determine the best high school football helmet in America. The idea begin when three guys in Pennsylvania — Chris (@END2008),…
Two years after rejecting a plan to bring-in the Berks Football League, the Lancaster-Lebanon League has changed its mind on expansion. Wednesday, league officials voted 19-5 (one abstention) in-favor expanding. Starting with the 2022 high school football season, the 13…
As High School Football America rolls into its 16th year of producing original content for high school football fans across the country, I’ve been looking back at some of our favorite stories we’ve covered. On today’s Flashback Friday, I take…