UNION COUNTY, NJ — As the halfway point of the regular season approaches, there are now just four undefeated teams remaining in Union County, with one each in four of the five group sizes. Rahway High School and Hillside High School are both 3-0 for the first time since 2019, David Brearley High School is […]
UNION, NJ — Ron Zieser is Union High School all over and has been for 30 years now. Zieser was a Farmer student-athlete, Class of 1997, and has taught history at UHS for 18 years. Now, he’s been named just the third UHS athletic director since the first head football coach he played for as […]
RAHWAY, NJ — “This is just a really tough time we’re going through right now,” Rahway High School head football coach Brian Russo said in a phone interview with Union County LocalSource on Monday, Sept. 12. It had been just four days since it had been reported that Rahway senior football player Ali Muhammad, 17, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union County football for Week 3 will be spread out over three days, with two games scheduled to be played on Thursday, Sept. 15; 10 more on Friday, Sept. 16; and one on Saturday, Sept. 17. There are four common games: Roselle Park High School at David Brearley High School on […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — It was a weekend when prominent Union County football schools Union, Summit, Cranford, Linden, Westfield and New Providence were all playing. In fact, last weekend was opening weekend for all of the above except for New Providence High School. Union and Linden high schools both lost by 1 point, Summit High […]
CLARK, NJ — There’s a certain amount of pride, tradition and even glory when the Crusaders march in line, side by side from their locker room to Nolan Field. Then, when they sprint past the cheerleaders and break on through to the other side of the field, they expect to inflict harm onto their opponent. […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — When the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association finally released the football classifications in early August, Union County schools Rahway, Hillside and Jonathan Dayton didn’t think anything of it. All three expected to be in the same group size they were in last year and in the recent past, which meant […]
CLARK, NJ — In an attempt to get back to “Johnson football” and try to produce the program’s first winning season in five years, Arthur L. Johnson High School football head coach Anthony DelConte began with this: “The off-season for us was huge.” DelConte continued, “We have to get back to doing things the way […]
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — A new coach for the first time in a decade, a fresh philosophy and a renewed spirit. Governor Livingston High School football wants to be a player. The Highlanders want to be among the best. “My two biggest things right now are compete-level and coachability,” first-year head coach Pete Ramiccio said. […]
LINDEN, NJ — Last year, on the first Friday night in November to be exact, the Linden Tigers football team, with a backup quarterback inserted, was less than a quarter away from pulling off what would have been considered the biggest upset of the first round of the state playoffs. Linden High School, on a […]