football


  • Tiger football downs Essex in season opener

    The Middlebury Union High School football team defeated Essex in its season opener, 21-14.

  • Tiger football downs Essex in season opener

    Tiger football downs Essex in season opener

    MUHS football team shrugged off an early miscue and defeated host Essex in its season opener on Thursday, Sept. 4.

  • NESCAC OKs NCAA football

    NESCAC OKs NCAA football

    The presidents of colleges belonging to the New England Small College Athletic Conference, including Middlebury, have approved a proposal from the conference athletic directors to allow NESCAC football teams…

  • Panther Perry gets NFL tryout

    Panther Perry gets NFL tryout

    Middlebury College football player Thomas Perry, an All-American offensive lineman, has been invited to a Baltimore Ravens rookie minicamp for a tryout.

  • Karl Lindholm: Thomas Perry is playing football and trying to ‘get better’ every day

    Karl Lindholm: Thomas Perry is playing football and trying to ‘get better’ every day

    The big event in the U.S. sports world this week is the annual college draft of the National Football League. There is a genuine possibility that Thomas Perry,…

  • Three locals earn Shrine Bowl nods

    Three local high school senior football standouts were recently selected to play in this year’s Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl against their counterparts from New Hampshire.

  • Karl Lindholm: Panthers’ athletic success secret is a ‘wellness guru’

    Karl Lindholm: Panthers’ athletic success secret is a ‘wellness guru’

    Here’s the setting: The cavernous Virtue Field House at Middlebury College, 10 a.m. on a quiet Sunday morning early in the fall, the football season. Some 40 to…

  • Local football stars named

    Local football stars named

    Many football players from the Middlebury, Mount Abraham/Vergennes and Otter Valley high school teams have been recognized as Division I, II or III all-stars by the leagues’ coaches.

  • OV football loses to Woodstock in title game

    OV football loses to Woodstock in title game

    History was made in the D-III football final on Saturday when top-seeded Woodstock played No. 4 seeded Otter Valley.

  • Middlebury football falls to Tufts in season finale

    Middlebury football falls to Tufts in season finale

    The Panther football team closed its season on Saturday with a 6-3 record after recording a 17-7 loss to the Jumbos.

  • Otter Valley football advances to D-III final

    Otter Valley football advances to D-III final

    The No. 4 seed Otter Valley football team on Saturday upset previously unbeaten top seed Fairfax/Lamoille, 41-35, in a Division III semifinal.

  • Area athletes chosen for North/South football rosters

    Area athletes chosen for North/South football rosters

    The rosters for the 23rd annual North/South All-Star Football Classic was recently announced, and they include eight senior standouts from the Middlebury, Otter Valley and the Mount Abraham/Vergennes…

  • Tiger football falls in semi-final

    Tiger football falls in semi-final

    CVU scored a season-low 21 points vs. MUHS on Saturday, but managed to defeat the visiting Tigers with two fourth-quarter passes.

  • Tiger football dominates Sea Wolves

    Tiger football dominates Sea Wolves

    The No. 4 seed Middlebury Union High School football team used a dominant first half to get past No. 5 Burlington/South Burlington, 31-7, in the teams’ Division I…

  • MAV football falls to Fair Haven

    MAV football falls to Fair Haven

    No. 3 seed Fair Haven football team bounced No. 6 Mount Abraham/Vergennes out of the Division III postseason this past Friday night, 49-6, in a quarterfinal matchup. The…

  • Otter Valley football nabs big win

    Otter Valley football nabs big win

    The No. 4 seed Otter Valley football team advanced to the Division III semifinal round this past Saturday with a big win over visiting No. 5 Mill River,…