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Owen’s first season of playing tackle football has gone pretty well so far. He’s the starting center (or “ball snapper” as well call it) and he plays on the kickoff and kick return teams.
He has a special role on the kickoff team…we call it “kicker caller”–he yells … Read the rest⇒
Jack spent two weeks at football camp in NJ — one week at the Chris Snee camp at William Patterson University and one week at the Offense-Defense camp at Rider.
At the Chris Snee camp, Jack won the “outstanding football player award” as the best overall player in the under-11 … Read the rest⇒
Jack and Owen signed “contracts” before school started, committing to things like doing their homework without arguing, reading a certain number of minutes each week, doing their pullups and pushups before bed, etc. As a reward for fulfilling their contracts, we agreed to provide a bonanza in the Autumn and … Read the rest⇒
Jack had his first touchdown of the season on Tuesday (he’d scored a safety earlier in the season). The rest of the photos from this game start here (they start near the bottom of the page).
Jack’s football team beat the other Solebury team in “the BIG game” this weekend. Jack had a great game (again!) and had at least five tackles in the other team’s backfield in the first half.
(NOTE: the two teams wear the same jerseys, so Jack’s team wore … Read the rest⇒
Yesterday, we had two football games (one in the rain) and one soccer game. Today we have one more soccer game.
Owen has been playing his heart out in football. He’s a “pulling everything”…. when he plays center he pulls and blocks, when he plays quarterback, he pulls and blocks…and … Read the rest⇒
Owen had his second flag football game last night (no photos of the first one ’cause I had the camera on the wrong setting and they’re all blurry!!).
He had a great game….two touchdowns and many tackles. He’s always said that “I just want to tackle,” but looking … Read the rest⇒
Quick update on the first football game of the season for Jack. Unfortunately, the team lost, but Jack had a great game….he played five different position…inside linebacker (Rover–his main position), right halfback, outside linebacker, quarterback and left halfback.
He had many tackles, two punt returns, several runs from the backfield, … Read the rest⇒
Owen’s class held their Halloween party on Friday, including a parade around the parking lot with the rest of the classes as well as lots of treats in their classroom. Owen is the scary Dracula toward the left.
Jack’s last football game was today. They won, to finish 5-3 in … Read the rest⇒
For the photos :
#1 — Jack actually took down the guy who’s carrying the ball. See the little legs with gold socks back there? That’s Jack. He tackled the guy, held on, and slowed him down enough for another Solebury player to come help finish bringing him down. Post … Read the rest⇒
Seems like the only time I have time to post is after the Saturday sports marathon. Owen had two games this week, Jack one. Owen played great. Although he really loves being on the line and blocking, the coaches make them rotate positions, so he got to be fullback and … Read the rest⇒
Two soccer games and one football game today, but I only have photos of the football (I had a faculty meeting and missed both games.) Jack’s travel team won again, so they’re tied for the best record in their league (2-1).
The report is that Owen had to … Read the rest⇒
OK. Here’s the schedule for tomorrow:
8:00 Jack: Travel Soccer Game
9:00 Owen: Intramural Soccer Game
10:30 Owen: Flag Football Game
4:00 Jack: Tackle Football Game
What that schedule doesn’t show is the early hour we must get up to force food into Jack before all his games, the tugging … Read the rest⇒
