Tribute to Fred Geffken
By Dan Cleary Fred Geffken had a big decision to make. A very big one. The then-Sparta police officer and Sparta Police Athletic League basketball coach applied to be the...
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Big State Sports All Morris/Sussex-Area Football Team
Butler and West Morris won sectional titles and went about them the old-fashioned way: By pounding the rock. Game after game, opponents geared up to stop both running games but...
Big State Sports All-Sussex Area Football Team
Scoreboards exploded all over Sussex County this fall – and many of the reasons for that offensive output can be found on Big State Sports’ All-Sussex County football team. Sparta...
Super Football Conference All-Division Team: Patriot Red
(Big State Sports did not create this list.) Here is the all SFC-Patriot Red. For more all-league teams, check with BigStateSports.com. OFFENSE First Team QB Shane Hoover (Sparta) SKILL- Christian...
Knolls 2005 Team the Best in the Area from 2000-2025
Brigham Farrand had the ball, cut through the line and … wait a second, Farrand didn’t have the ball. Tommy Hennessy did, and he spun in the other direction and...
Who are the 21st Century’s Best of the Best? (Morris-Sussex...
Who were the best offensive football players in Morris and Sussex County over the past quarter century? If you want to know the answer, you have come to the right...
Joe Hofmann’s Week 0 Football Notes
Questions … so many questions. Which teams will win their divisions in the Morris-Sussex area in 2025? We don’t know yet, but we began gathering clues last week, when games...
Big State Sports Best Offensive Players to Watch in Morris-Sussex
Early last summer, High Point’s Jerron Martress had a visit with Wildcats coach Bill Percey. The conversation may have gone something like this. Martress: “I’d like to play quarterback.” Percey:...
2025 Morris Sussex Big Football Games to Watch
When the 2025 high school football season gets underway in Morris-Sussex on Aug. 29, you’d swear that we were in the first night of the playoffs, not the first night...
2024 Morris Sussex Football Year in Review
Before we move on to the 2025 high school football season, let us look back at 2024. It was, quite simply, a season for the ages! Eight area schools won...