Jaguars bring 8-0 record into the postseason
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Few teams are as red-hot as the East Orange Campus High School football team entering the postseason. The Jaguars are the No. 1 seed in the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 1, Group 5, state playoffs. EOCHS, under fifth-year head coach Rae Oliver, enters the playoffs with an 8-0 record. It is […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — If you were to look closely at the recent histories of the storied football programs at East Orange Campus High School and Newark West Side, you would notice two glaring facts, along with a host of other things that would make most high school football pundits scratch their heads in wonderment. […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School football team returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 30, when it hosts Newark West Side at Paul Robeson Stadium at 1 p.m. The Jaguars, who were idle last week, have a 7-0 record, which includes a forfeit win over Newark East Side. Under head coach […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — “When was the last time East Orange Campus started with a record of 6-0 or better?” asked East Orange Campus High School head coach Rae Oliver after his squad walked out of Sparta with a big win over non-public Pope John XXIII Regional High School. As piece of trivia and speculation […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – It’s Week 5 and all over the state of New Jersey, high school football has already sped into the midseason. For some teams, that means playoffs or bust. For East Orange, there was a new target in its crosshairs. But first let’s take a quick look at their hit list so […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — In a 21-14 high school football upset, the East Orange Campus Jaguars outpaced the West Orange Mountaineers in a hotly contested home game in Suriano Stadium on Sept. 24. It was a standing-room-only crowd as East Orange took a quick lead with a touchdown by Joshua Richards. West Orange’s Makhi Green […]
If you were to say that the East Orange Campus High School and West Orange High School football teams were both vying for the top spot in the Super Football Conference–Freedom Red Division, then the conversation would start like this: “East Orange Campus and West Orange for the past two seasons have decided the game […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School football team defeated Columbia, 52-0, on Sept. 17, to improve to a 3-0 record on the season. With two teams tied for the top spot in the Super Football Conference–Freedom Red Division, there was bound to be one sole winner. On one hand you have […]
On a day of remembrance, Sept. 11, there was something missing from the steady fanfare at Paul Robeson Stadium in East Orange: a familiar boom that can be heard several blocks away, yelling a familiar catchphrase — “Touchdown Jaguars!” That catchphrase was from the Jaguars’ longtime public address announcer Mike Davis, who died in the […]
The high school football season kicked off for most teams last weekend in Essex County, but not without some disruption. The remnants of Hurricane Ida forced teams to change the logistics of their games. The most severe damage was seen at Foley Field in Bloomfield. As a result, Bloomfield’s home game against Nutley on Friday, […]