NORTH VANCOUVER — It’s one thing to learn from a book.It’s yet another thing completely when your teacher, or in this instance your coach, decides that the best classroom experience he can give you is to make you an audience to the real thing. Two Saturdays mornings ago, following a Friday Night Lights game in Seattle, […]
High School Football
Varsity Letters PODCAST welcomes a football coaching trio: SFU’s Thomas Ford, UBC’s Taylor Nill, Langley’s Ryk Piche
Welcome back to Varsity Letters — The Podcast! You’ll find an embedded player below to listen to this week’s episode! As mid-September hits, footballs are in the air everywhere, including the respective home bases of our three gridiron guests this week. Off theta, Simon Fraser head coach Thomas Ford takes us from fall camp through […]
Varsity Letter’s 09.09.19 Big 5 B.C. high school football rankings: VC and Vernon hold top spots
Welcome to Week 3 of the 2019 B.C. high school football season.The latest rankings:TRIPLE A1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (2-0, 0-0) (LW-1)LW — Def. St. Thomas More by forfeit.TW — Saturday at South Delta.2 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (1-0, 0-0) (2)LW — Won 21-0 at Blaine (Wash.).TW — Friday at Terry Fox (Percy Perry Stadium). 3 […]
FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ Super Saturday 09.14.19 B.C. High School Football Report!
Welcome to Varsity Letters’ Saturday edition of the B.C. High School Football Report. We’ve got reports from Saturday’s four games, as well as additional information from Friday’s Vancouver College-St. Thomas More game.SATURDAY12 p.m. — SOUTH DELTA 27 at SEAQUAM 0NORTH DELTA — Ben McDonald has been every bit the maestro in leading the Sun Devils […]
FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 09.13.19 B.C. High School Football Report has the lowdown from every Friday senior varsity game!
Welcome to Week 2 of Varsity Letter’s B.C.High School Football Report.Please keep checking back on this posting over the course of the evening for all the reports from a busy schedule of games under Friday Night Lights.SCOREBOARDNON-CONFERENCEFRIDAYMT. DOUGLAS 20 at NANAIMO DISTRICT 0NANAIMO — The Mt. Douglas Rams lowered their pads and rushed to victory […]
Abby’s original football heroes: Some 35 years later, Panthers celebrate their biggest victory with a B.C. title rematch against Notre Dame
ABBOTSFORD — Paul Gill has never forgotten the feeling he got from winning his final high school football game.Now, 35 years later, the Abbotsford Panthers’ 14-4 victory over the Notre Dame Jugglers in the 1984 B.C. championship game is being recognized for the pioneering bar it set in the city you might just call the […]
PODCAST — The VL Pod is back, celebrating a big anniversary for Abby Panthers football, and a new cross-country season for the SFU Clan
Varsity Letters — The Podcast is back with episode No. 2 in our re-launch. This week, we open our show with a high school football theme, celebrating Saturday’s 35th anniversary of the Abbotsford Panthers’ 1984 B.C. championship win over the Notre Dame Jugglers. Paul Gill, Denis Kelly and Jalem Catlin are all a part of […]
Varsity Letter’s 09.09.19 Big 5 B.C. high school football rankings: Tweedsmuir Panthers, Langley Saints make early climbs
LANGLEY — Week One of the 2019 B.C. high school football season saw a complete non-conference look to the schedule.Already, however, we’ve got change at both tiers in the very first in-season Varsity Letters’ Big 5 provincial rankings:TRIPLE A1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (1-0, 0-0) (LW-1)LW — Def. Kelowna 34-7.TW — Friday at St. Thomas […]
FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letter’s Saturday B.C. High School Football Report 09.07.19 edition
Saturday marks an end to our first week of the B.C. High School Football Report.SATURDAYEXHIBITION ST. FRANCIS (Calg.) 37 at No. 2 MT. DOUGLAS 0VICTORIA —They are No. 2 at the highest tier of competition in Alberta, and on Saturday, Tier 1 No. 1-ranked St. Francis of Calgary proved too much for the host and B.C. […]
FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ Week 1 B.C. High School Football Report for 09.06.19
That’s a wrap for Week One of the Varsity Letter’s B.C.High School Football Report!We’ve got an abbreviated schedule on Saturday, but check back with us for the results of some very big games!Thanks to all of the coaches who took part today.FRIDAYEXHIBITIONCARSON GRAHAM 0 at CLEVELAND (Wash.) 13 SEATTLE — Host Cleveland made it a battle for […]