The boys in blue are gearing up for the first game of the season, this Friday evening at 7 p.m. against Passaic Tech in Wayne. (Complete schedule after the jump). Get out and support them, they could use your cheers especially his year because they’ve got an unusually high number of sophomores on the team, and an unusually low number of seniors and juniors. Why? No reason, it just worked out that way. At a media breakfast last Saturday, the team discussed their determination, and several of the sophs on the team discussed their appreciation for the high level of support and team camaraderie that the upperclassmen have shown them.
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Here’s the roster of games for the upcoming season–let’s all get out there and support Blue!
- Sept. 11 Friday 7:00pm Passaic Co. Tech @Wayne
- Sept. 17 Thurs. 7:00pm Wayne Valley HS @Wayne
- Sept. 26 Sat. 1:00pm Seton Hall Prep @WOrange
- Oct. 3 Sat. 1:00pm EO Campus @Montclair
- Oct. 9 Fri. 7:00pm Livingston @Livingston
- Oct. 17 Sat. 1:00pm W.Orange HS @Montclair
- Oct. 24 Sat. 1:00pm Irvington @Irvington
- Oct. 31 Sat. 1:00 pm West Side @Montclair
- Nov. 26 Thur. 10:30am Bloomfield @Montclair
The EOHS ‘Panthers’ cleaned the Mounties clocks in 1967, 39 – 0.
First offensive play of the game, Thaddeous Cohen ran 69 yards off left tackle for a touchdown. EO 6 Montclair 0.
Sitting with the Marching Band on the fourty, blasting away on my Bach Stradavarious Trumpet was a gas, man, a total blast.
“Hey Red, Hey Blue, you look so good to me, I said hey Red, Hey Blue…”
EOHS, Footbal State Champs 1967, 1968
Outdoor track State Champs 1968.
Oh hell yeah!
I’m totally psyched for the Big Blue season! Just think: double parking on Essex Ave! completing ignoring the code that says park on ony oneside! Idling buses! Inability to pull out of your own driveway for hours! parents parking across your driveways! noise, garbage, and more!
My uncle Greg White, was the QB for East Orange in 1966. Keep an eye out for this year’s MHS starting QB Quadir Pendleton, who just transferred from East Orange. Can you say Montclair High School State Champs 2009!!!!
Appropriate user name, Cranky.
I specifically commented chidingly several times in the past that the Baristas never covered local sports, but found the coverage space for all manner of other silliness in the schools. In fact, it used to seem as if this site was actively hostile to aadolescent athleticism (but big on every student musical out there).
So I will take this one as a vindication. (You don’t even have to give me at least partial credit, Debbie.) Go Mounties! Make the shade of Clary Anderson proud.
Glad to hear the good news that recent transfer Quadir Pendleton was given the green light to play for the Mounties this season. When he was at East Orange, he threw for 47 touchdowns over the past two seasons. Looks like he’ll be a very exciting quarterback to watch this year. The Star-Ledger calls him the best offensive player in the entire conference. The Ledger has Montclair ranked #17 in the state.
“In fact, it used to seem as if this site was actively hostile to aadolescent athleticism (but big on every student musical out there).”
Musical? Thanks for reminding me. Shout out to the marching band!
I do hope, by the way, that the Mounties actually field more players than are pictured above. MHS, I believe, has approximately 1000 students, after all.
Perhaps a roster is in order? To go with the schedule and by way of making team parents happy.
And maybe too similar shout-outs to Glen Ridge and Bloomfield?
cathar,
The lack of Seniors and Juniors is telling. They may be suffering from the rising popularity of soccer.
Back in 1995 we only had 20 people on my Freshman team (which meant most of us were in every play on both sides of the ball. Not fun). But, there were 3 or 4 of every position on the Soccer Team.
Or maybe a lot of the older kids decided not to return to the field after one of their comrades passed last year.
I guss Quadir is transferring in for the academic excellence we’re all paying for. Any stats on how much he’ll raise the GPA of the Mountie scholar/athletes?
cranky,
Or maybe his parents moved to Montclair and the football team just got lucky to pick him up.
He is a teenager, after all.
This is probably going to sound all wrong… but is playing football just not really the “in” thing for white teen-aged guys to do around here these days?
He didn’t “pass,” Generically named…, he passed on. Get it right and don’t pussyfoot. But this is exactly the sort of thing, however shocking, that coaches always preach that their players have to overcome. I’d be surprised if the kid’s death won’t sometime this season be used as a rallying point.
The “rising popularity” of soccer I’m sure reassures parents who really don’t want their kids to play contact sports. (The one college football coach I know personally wants exactly the same for his own son.) But unless one is an overpaid and not terribly productive David Beckham who tries to extend his European career with a third-level American pro team, the NFL still offers much bigger contracts than our domestic pro soccer teams do.
Personally, too, I think American football is a hell of a lot more exciting and complex a game. (Thua commend you for playing; college-level football for me was a chance to extend for 4 more years the only thing I much liked about high school.)
Cranky, your attempt at sarcasm re Quadir Pendleton was in some respects the worst sort of racist remark. Not least because you probably see yourself as a political liberal of sorts, perforce as entitled to your snarkiness about your perception (based on what?) of Pendleton’s academic prowess. I simply wish him well, both this season and on the collegiate level, even if he somehow does not wind up at QB for Brown.
i had the pleasure of meeting quadir pendleton and several other members of the team, including some of the sophs, last saturday at the media breakfast and photo op. he seemed like a very nice guy and devoted to the team.
and as a matter of fact, cathar, i do remember you pointing out that we weren’t covering sports, and while i am certainly no sports writer, i agree that it is important to show our athletes support and encourage community participation in their events and meets. so i thank you for a great suggestion and welcome school sports news and reviews from our posters.