Shiners All-Star High School Football Game Played Friday

by Jeff Fisher
High School Football America

The 34th annual Shiners Football Classic will be played Friday night at Gillette Stadium.

The game features 100 of the top high school football players from Eastern Massachusetts divided into North and South teams.  The North squad is coach by Austin Prep's Bill Maradel, who is the winningest Catholic high school football coach in state history.  The South is led by Jon Bartlett of Boston College High School.

The game benefits the Shriners Hospitals for Children, an international pediatric specialty health care system.

MIAA Membership to Vote on Statewide High School Football Playoff System

by Jeff Fisher
High School Football America

A proposal to create a statewide high school football playoff system will probably be voted upon by the entire membership of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association in October.

Thursday, the MIAA's Board of Directors voted 11-2 to place the plan before all of the schools during a late October meeting.

A date for that meeting will be announced in the near future.

Statewide Playoff Proposal Clears Another Hurdle

by Jeff Fisher
High School Football America

A statewide playoffs system is one step clear to reality after the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association's Tournament Management Committee voted 10-4 in favor of the latest proposal crafted by the Massachusetts State Football Coaches Association.

The proposal now goes to the MIAA's board of directors on June 7th.  At that meeting, the board can do several things including pass it, defeat it or push it to a vote at the MIAA's annual meeting in March of 2013.

If approved, the two-year statewide trial will begin during the 2013 season.

Massachusetts Moving Closer...Again...to Statewide Football Playoffs

by Jeff Fisher
High School Football America

March 12th will be a big day in Massachusetts high school football history.

That's the day that the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Football Committee will vote again on a new proposal that would create a statewide playoff system.  Two years ago, another statewide proposal was voted down 190-114 by the MIAA's member schools.

On Thursday, the MIAA Football Committee voted in favor of scheduling a meeting on March 12th at which time it will vote on whether to forward a new playoff proposal to the MIAA's Tournament Management Committee that has the power to implement.

The latest proposal that has been constructed by the Massachusetts High School Football Coaches Association preserves the current league structure, which would have been scrapped under the 2010 plan, plus Thanksgiving Day games will not be touched.

Massachusetts and New Jersey are the only two states that don't conduct statewide football playoffs.

National Letter of Intent Signing Day - Massachusetts High Schools

Casey DeAndrade - DB/RB (East Bridgewater) - New Hampshire
Ryan Farrell - DB/WR (Xaverian Brothers) - New Hampshire
Marcus Grant - WR (Lawrence Academy) - Boston College
Abner Logan - LB (Dexter School) - Maryland
Tim Joy - LB (Chelmsford) - Boston College
Sacoy Malone - RB (Springfield Central) - Maine
Eric Olson - OL (Buckingham, Brown & Nichols) - Northwestern
Patrick Ricard - DE (David Prouty) - Maine