american football

BEMUS POINT — The Maple Grove High School football team showed why it’s been a perennial sectional and state championship contender at multiple classi...

PORTVILLE — A year ago, Jeremiah Shoup could only watch his Salamanca football teammates from the sidelines every Friday night of his junior season. S...

High school football is comparable to a religion in Texas. And for Dante Barlow, who grew up in the Lone Star State, it was only natural to spend coun...

RANDOLPH — Brent Brown had one depth chart in mind. Then, he got a text from his superintendent walking off the field Tuesday morning telling him to g...

CATTARAUGUS — In some ways this feels like a year ago to Tim Miller. The Cattaraugus-Little Valley football coach saw a “building” year coming in 2016...

SALAMANCA — Paul Haley remembers a time when sophomores and freshmen almost never saw the field for the Salamanca High School varsity football team. B...

FRANKLINVILLE — There’s no doubting the talent the Franklinville/Ellicottville football team brings back to the skill positions in the backfield and o...

OLEAN — The Southern Tier Diesel started the day hoping to lock down a No. 2 seed and a home playoff game. The Olean semi-pro football team ended Satu...

Lou “Looch” Selan will turn 95 years old later this month and a celebration is being planned to honor his achievements. My first recollection of Lou w...

Gowanda Central School Athletic Director Joe Bruening held a pre-season coaches meeting on Aug. 10 to go over expectations for all Panther coaches for...

SALAMANCA — Last weekend marked the 15th anniversary of Jim Kelly’s induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Thurman Thomas’ 10th. The backfie...

OLEAN — After the Southern Tier Diesel’s most dramatic win of the season a week ago, Saturday night’s victory was never really in doubt. From quarterb...

SALAMANCA — Twenty years past the founding of Hunter’s Hope and the end of his football career, Jim Kelly can still count on his teammates to lend an ...

The Southern Tier Diesel exemplified some perseverance Saturday night and earned their biggest win of the season — 22-21 over the first-place Carthage...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Many of the final statistics suggest a tight, back and forth game, except in the turnover department. Pennsylvania outgained New York,...

Sean Gabel builds his Gowanda High School football teams around the concept of family. It takes weeks, even months, for a scholastic team to build gre...

GOWANDA — The 2017 football season began locally on Saturday, July 29 as 30 young athletes participated in the inaugural Gowanda youth football clinic...

Sean Gabel builds his Gowanda High School football teams around the concept of family. It takes weeks, even months for a scholastic team to build grea...