Football

Does anyone remember a more eventful opening weekend than the one Michigan fans enjoyed these last few days? The 2017 high school kickoff had it all, and our "Drive for Detroit" review wraps up the headlining Week 1 performances from all over our state. 

Buried in the text on the fourth page of the Saturday, October 27, 1888, Detroit Free Press is a single, concise sentence bearing a minimum amount of detail: “The Windsor foot ball team will play the Detroit High School team this afternoon at 3.” ...

On a cloudy August night in 2009, with overcast skies similar to what many across Michigan are seeing this afternoon, Coloma and Watervliet played the 100th game of what continues to be one of the longest series in MHSAA football history. Coloma won that 2009 seas...

Football remains the most played high school sport in Michigan, not to mention the most popular for fans who fill our stadiums every fall weekend. Finally, it’s time to start talking about it again – and you’ve come to the right place.

If opposing teams think it’s going to be easy tackling Thomas Griggs this season, they might want to rethink their approach. Griggs, a 5-foot-10, 210-pound running back for the Wyoming Kelloggsville football team, is difficult to stop and a load to bring down.

The school sports spotlight shines brightest on fall Friday nights and has for decades, not only in Michigan, but also from shore to shore across the country.

The Detroit Catholic League football coaching carousel took a few more turns during the offseason, with a pair of programs once led by two of the winningest coaches in state history welcoming new leaders for this fall. Two former understudies to those longtime mentors ...

In an effort to re-emphasize that Friday nights in the fall should be reserved for high school football, the National Federation of State High School Associations has adopted a resolution that urges schools and teams at the college and professional levels to honor that ...

Swirling around in the back of his mind, Tanner Orweller sees what the most historic moment in Perry football history will look like. The Ramblers, after coming so close so many seasons before, will make the playoffs for the first time. The entire town will turn out fo...

Across the U.S. this summer, school-age football players are flocking to camps conducted by colleges and commercial interests. They get outfitted in full gear and launch themselves into drills and skills work.

And until the past decade, football has not had to cope with out-of-season programs run by non-school groups and commercial entities that are so troublesome ...

The latest participation data also requires that those of us who love the game of football have much work to do; and that work has little to do with how either the 8- or 11-player tournament is conducted.

If not for sports, Tim Lelito isn’t sure he would have finished high school. Now that he’s entering his fifth season in the National Football League, Lelito is doing what he can to make sure kids in St. Clair County don’t have to worry about that.

Entering high school, Steve Mann faced high expectations. His mother and father both experienced much success as student-athletes at Detroit Country Day, and his sister, Brittany, was one of the top track athletes to compete at and graduate from the school. But while i...

We have reached the point where 46 percent of the schools which sponsor football qualify for the Football Playoffs ...

The 2017 8-Player Football Playoffs will be conducted over four weeks in two divisions of 16 teams each ...

Tom Mach’s impact on the Detroit Catholic Central football program didn’t end with his retirement Feb. 9. The aftershocks will be felt for years to come.

The proposal is seriously flawed, and by circumventing the MHSAA Football Committee, its proponents assure it is fatally flawed.

This helped save football in some schools and helped return the game of football to other schools.

The Big Ten knows it’s wrong, admits it, but schedules football games on Friday nights to attract larger rights fees from television.