By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – All that separated visiting Bandys and Maiden on Friday night at the half of their 65th all-time meeting in high school football was about 15 yards. The Blue Devils had gained 189 yards, the Trojans had 174, and each team had scored twice and they were tied. But less than 20 seconds into the …
BLAST FROM THE PAST: A few memories from the Bandys-Maiden football series
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com When WNNC Oldies 101.3 FM first asked me to write about some of my memories of the Bandys versus Maiden high school football series – which started three years before I was born – I cautioned that after 43 years of covering the series, the years sometimes run together. That said, here are some things that …
GAME PREVIEWS: Bandys, Maiden battle at Maiden in Game No. 65 of series
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Previewing tonight’s varsity football games (all statistical references are unofficial totals): SOUTH FORK 2A BANDYS (2-2) at MAIDEN (4-0), 7:30 p.m. It’s game No. 65 in a storied series that includes Maiden going 25-0-3 in the first 28 games and the teams playing twice in both 1962 and 1963. Maiden leads the all-time series 48-13-3, which …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Maiden to dedicate stadium to Tom Brown on Oct. 20
HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Maiden High is inviting its former football players to a reception that will honor former head coach Tom Brown on the night the football stadium is named after him. Former players and coaches who worked with Brown from 1965 through 2007 are encouraged to attend on Oct. 20 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., school administrators and …
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Brown found his calling in life very early
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Tom Brown has never been one to run a what-might-have-been checklist because he knows he found his life’s calling – coaching football – at a very young age. “It was an easy call for me to be a football coach,” Brown said this week. “And once I got involved, I never wanted to be …