UNION, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School football team lost to Montclair, 42-27, Saturday, Sept. 30. For what it’s worth, the generations-old rivalry between East Orange and Montclair has its ebbs and flows, along with the ups and downs. In a preseason interview, Montclair head coach Jermaine Johnson made it clear there was […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School football team defeated Bloomfield, 41-6, Friday, Sept. 22, at Foley Field in Bloomfield. The Jaguars earned their first win of the season, improving to 1-3. Bloomfield also moved to 1-3, coming off back-to-back shutout losses to West Orange and Livingston. The Jaguars made an immediate impact […]
RANDOLPH, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School football team made a valiant comeback attempt but fell short, losing to Randolph, 42-35, on Friday afternoon, Sept. 15, at Randolph. The Jaguars fell to 0-3 on the season. Whenever two old foes get together, you can expect two things: frank cordiality underscored by some tensions […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Irvington High School football team defeated East Orange Campus High School, 50-20, on Monday, Sept. 11, at Schools Stadium in Newark. Irvington earned its first win of the season and improved to 1-2. EOCHS fell to 0-2. What a difference a year makes. Last year, East Orange Campus traveled across town […]
NEWARK, NJ — The East Orange High School football team lost to Clifton, 30-12, in the season opener on Saturday, Sept. 2, at Schools Stadium in Newark. For the second season in a row, there has been a lot of hype circling around the first game of the season between East Orange Campus and Clifton. […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Two seasons removed from a perfect 13-0 state sectional championship season, the East Orange Campus High School football team features a young roster. But don’t be fooled by that relative youth. The Jaguars have a ton of promising talent that can help them on another state title run. “I’m excited about […]
EAST ORANGE/IRVINGTON, NJ — The Rutgers University football team this season features several players from East Orange and Irvington. Junior wide receiver Nasir Montgomery, junior running back Al-Shadee Salaam and sophomore quarterback Raeden Oliver are East Orange Campus High School graduates. The Irvington graduates are Famah Toure and Zaire Angoy. Montgomery, a 6-foot-1, 190-pounder who […]
EAST ORANGE/ORANGE/IRVINGTON, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School, Orange High School and Irvington High School football teams are preparing for their respective season openers. The OHS Tornadoes and IHS Blue Knights will both kick off on Friday, Aug. 25. The Tornadoes, under third-year head coach Khalfani Alleyne, will visit Wayne Hills at 6:30 […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The title of this piece has yet to begin to describe the changes in popular male-dominated sports which traditionally left our fairer halves out of the club. Traditional female sports that are not relatively heavy on the contact, such as tennis, track and field, swimming/diving and gymnastics, are now taking a […]
Former Scotties head coach inducted into Essex County Football Coaches Hall of Fame
EAST ORANGE, NJ — In his nearly 30 years of coaching at defunct Clifford J. Scott High School in East Orange, Bill Norwood said he has had a lot of fond memories. Norwood, who retired about 13 years ago, was among the inductees of the Essex County Football Coaches Hall of Fame during the Paul […]