football

For years, it seemed a sport buried in the past. But as turnouts continue to shrink for Big 30 football programs, those days in the 1960s aren’t so ou...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — So how will this season play out for the Bills? Buffalo is coming off a disappointing 6-10 campaign and third-place finish in ...

HINSDALE — Jack Snyder (two assists) and Bryce Butler (assist) scored two goals each to lead Ellicottville (1-2) to its first boys soccer victory of t...

Decades after his graduation from Salamanca High School, Jason Marsh still had something to learn from George Whitcher when it came to football. Marsh...

ALLEGANY — Before Clapp Field on Five Mile Road was a soccer field, it was used as a airport for World War I airplanes and a pasture for horses. The f...

KANE, Pa. — Jim Hillman told pretty much anyone who’d listen over the summer that his team had put a rough 2-7 season behind it and would be much impr...

Twenty-five years, plus two days ago, Salamanca coach George Whitcher occupied the cover of the Times Herald’s annual football edition. Whitcher, who ...

Many of the scores from an early Week 0 for area Pennsylvania football teams were status quo. Smethport and Coudersport, the defending District 9 Smal...

The biggest difference is the time commitment. Dave Baron leaves the house between 7 and 7:30 a.m. on most days and doesn’t return until 10 or 11 p.m....

For the second time in three years, the Section 6 Football Federation is scrambling to find opponents to fill out its Class D teams’ schedules. Maple ...

EMPORIUM, Pa. — More than anything, Ryan Neyman longs for the old days. Neyman’s high school playing career coincided with a golden era for Cameron Co...

PORT ALLEGANY, Pa. — Justin Bienkowski is beginning his second stint as head coach of the Port Allegany High School football team. But the 38-year-old...

It would take a real grinch to tear apart the Bills’ performance in Friday night’s 27-14 preseason victory over the Panthers at Charlotte’s Bank of Am...

KANE, Pa. — Jim Hillman called last season a wake-up call. Perhaps not just for the head coach now entering his second year leading the Wolves, but fo...

OLEAN — The Olean High School football program has built momentum under Phil Vecchio. But the Huskies want more. “We’re real happy with the first thre...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — They accomplished phase one of their plan last fall. After a pair of standout seasons in which it won two Allegheny Mountain League...

PORTVILLE — Josh Brooks’ perspective has changed slightly now that he’s no longer new to the role. “At this time last year, we were so excited to get ...

RIDGWAY, Pa. — Many District 9 football teams find themselves in a similar position this year as they replace key players who graduated with new faces...