In high school football action this past weekend, Middlebury and Otter Valley both remained in the hunt for tops seeds in their divisions with road victories, while the Mount Abraham-Vergennes collective team took a close loss away from home.
The Middlebury College football team scored first the outlasted visiting Bowdoin on Saturday.
The Middlebury and Otter Valley high school football teams posted victories this past weekend, but Mount Abraham-Vergennes lost a shootout to an undefeated squad at their place.
The Otter Valley football team rushed past Spaulding on this past Friday, 39-14, to move to 2-1 heading into this Saturday’s home game against fellow Division III foe Fairfax.
The Division II Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative high school football team broke into the win column on Saturday by downing host D-III Fairfax, 21-14.
After an MUHS running back scored three touchdowns in the first quarter, Rutland had a long night when it visited Middlebury’s Doc Collins Field this past Thursday.
Visiting Otter Valley broke away from an early 7-7 tie on Saturday and went on to a 29-7 victory over the Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative football team.
Bad weather was only part of the problem when Middlebury Union High School hosted Burr & Burton Academy at Doc Collins Field.
Middlebury was the only local victor as the high school football season got underway this past weekend.
Malcolm became just the fifth Tiger football head coach since 1965, when the legendary 23-year tenure of Hubie Wagner — an MUHS physical education teacher — began.
The 70th Annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl will kick off at 11:30 p.m. this on Saturday at Castleton University.
The Vermont Chapter of the National Football Foundation handed out its annual awards and scholarship on Saturday at a banquet in Castleton.
Five seniors from local high school football teams have been selected to play for Vermont in the 70th Annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl.
After more than three decades coaching with the Middlebury Union High School football program, Dennis Smith said he knew two games into this season, his 15th as its head coach, it was time to step away.
1996 Middlebury College grad Doug Mandigo, an assistant football coach for the past decade, will step in as head coach now that Bob Ritter has stepped down.
