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February 13, 2012
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Since the 2009 high school football season, Trish Hoffman and Jeff Fisher have traveled the country to uncover unique stories about high school football programs and their communities.
Specifically, we’re interested in small town high school football, where the football program is so deeply rooted in the fabric of the town, that’s it’s hard to tell where the community ends and the football team begins.
Our journey in 2009 on August 28, 2009 in tiny Sheridan, Indiana and ended on Thanksgiving morning in Norwich, Connecticut.
The Tale of the Tape for 2009: eight states visited - drove 1,650 Miles - flew 3,136 Miles.
We also squeezed in five Bruce Springsteen concerts.
In 2010, we've visited towns in our home state of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas.
If your town has a great football story to tell, please email me at jeff@highschoolfootballamerica.com.

These are the overtime highlights from the 2010 Thanksgiving Day game between Easton and Phillipsburg High Schools.
The only points in the 104th renewal of the Easton/Phillipsburg rivalry came on the last play of the game. On a snowy day at Lafayette College, P'burg's Anthony Castro stroked a 25-yard field goal in the first overtime to give the Stateliners a 3-0 victory over their arch-rival. Easton had won four straight in the series.

On Thanksgiving Day 2010, Easton (PA) will play arch-rival Phillipsburg (NJ) for the 104th time.
The Turkey Day clash features two schools that are just separated by the Delaware River. One of the traditions is a massive bonfire that Easton students build the week of the game.
In this short video vignette, High School Football America's Trish Hoffman talks with one of the Easton teachers on the Tuesday before the big pile of wood goes up in flames.
The bonfire will burn on the eve of the game, but Easton seniors camp-out on Tuesday night to protect it from its arch-rivals trying to set it on fire before Wednesday night.
Simply put, Easton/Phillipsburg is a huge rivalry with over a century of traditions!
Throughout the next several days, High School Football America will post several different stories that highlight this incredibly intense rivalry.
To read more about High School Football America's memories of this game and the Thanksgiving Day football tradition in the Lehigh Valley, go to Jeff's blog.

On September 10, 2010, High School Football America stopped in Lowell, Michigan to check-out the Lowell football team's annual Pink Arrow Pride game against Kenowa Hills.
For one night a year, over the last three years, Lowell's football team dons pink uniforms to raise money for cancer research, awareness and support in the town of 4,000.
With a crowd awash in pink, the Red/Pink Arrows won 47-0, which gave the team a perfect 3-0 record in Pink Arrow Pride games. In those three games, Lowell has beaten its opponents by a combined score of 143-0.
The event has raised $300,000 in three years, and has resulted in the opening of a Gilda's Club in Lowell.
To learn more about the Pink Arrow Pride game go to www.pinkarrowpride.org


In the first part of this two-part series, High School Football America takes you to high school football's oldest game between Norwich Free Academy and New London High School in Connecticut.
These two schools played the first high school football game in 1875, and haven't stopped.
In this episode, Trisha Hoffman takes you to the pep rally and Powder Puff football game at New London High School the day before the 2009 Thanksgiving Day clash between the two schools.

High School Football America's Trish Hoffman and Jeff Fisher give you an inside look an 8-man football game between East Central and Preston in tiny Miles, Iowa...population 462.
Trish and Jeff take you inside the press box to meet the mayor of Miles, who also doubles as East Central High's PA announcer, plus they give you an up-close and personal look at Raiders head coach Dave Jenkins as he gives his team an emotional pep talk in the locker room before his team takes the field against its undeafeated arch-rival Preston High.
One of the best things about traveling to small town high school football games is finding unique, regional cuisine at the concession stands.
That certainly was the case when High School Football America was in Miles, Iowa just west of the Mississippi checking-out East Central High School in its rilvary game against Preston. Trish Hoffman discovered the pure pleasure of brat burgers and butterfield pork chop sandwiches being served-up by the local Lions Club.

This is the second in a series of small town high school football video vignettes from High School Football America. In this episode Trish Hoffman and High School Football America editor-in-chief Jeff Fisher travel to Paw Paw, Michigan in search of the elusive pawpaw tree and high school football in this tiny village in southwest Michigan.

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