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Salamanca varsity football players huddle before the home opener of the team’s 100th season Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 at Veterans’ Park against Lackawanna.
Warriors search for progress during difficult 100th season By Sam Wilson Sports Editor SALAMANCA — The 100th season of Salamanca football has been a tough one, to be sure. The Warriors fell out of playoff contention and struggled to find a win in a rebuilding year. This Friday, they play FranklinvilleEllicottville, one of the best small school teams in the area this season. It’s the first Salamanca at Ellicottville game since 2006, when the Eagles beat the Warriors 12-6, and the first meeting between Titans coach Chad Bartoszek and his alma mater. The struggles in 2015 were predictable, given the mass of seniors occupying the 2014 Warriors and the lack of varsity experience stepping into big roles. New coach Paul Haley had to turn to underclassmen and older players who had not played before. Early on in the season, Haley referred to history as an example for his inexperienced group. At a Sept. 10 dinner honoring the 100th anniversary of Salamanca football, Haley told a story of his 1993 Warriors. Haley made the Big 30 All-Star team as a linebacker for George Whitcher in what may have been considered a down year. “We had three returning starters going into my senior year,” Haley said. “No one expected us to do much. We didn’t have much coming back. We lost our first game but then we went on a little run and got ourselves into the playoffs. We played undefeated Newfane in Newfane, had a big goal-line stand in the fourth quarter.” The win sent Salamanca to the Section 6 championship against Gowanda at then-Rich Stadium. At Media Day, though, the TV crews talked only with the Panthers’ players, not giving Salamanca much of a chance after losing 20-0 in the regular season. “They had a big meeting room and the Section 6 head said, ‘Does anyone have any questions about anything?’ A kid from Gowanda stands up and goes, ‘So after we beat Salamanca, who do we play next?’” Haley recalled. “I just remember I’ve never wanted to get up and punch somebody in the face in front of all these people. I’m looking at coach (Whitcher) and I think he’s going to beat me to it.
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Paul Haley speaks at the American Legion in Salamanca during a dinner marking the 100th anniversary of Salamanca football.
“There was not a word said from the time we left Rich Stadium the whole car ride home. We get to practice and he said, ‘Paul, I want you to walk out there and explain to our team what those (expletives) did to us up there.’ We got to that practice and it was a melee.” On the Rich Stadium field, after a pregame “moshpit,” Salamanca overturned the regular season meeting for a 12-6 championship win. “No one in the world gave us a chance,” Haley said. “We had no studs that year. People talk about all the great Salamanca teams and I guarantee no one on that team would make the list. But we’re the one that was a team and that’s the only way we would have won. I explain that to our kids now. We’re never going to be the biggest, never going to be the fastest but we can damn sure be the toughest and that’s what we’re going to to.” Many at the dinner discussed how to bring kids back to football. Haley singled o out one of his players, freshman Ira John, aas an example of a young man willing to p put in necessary work. John emailed Haley o over the summer, making a personal appeal tto join his brother and cousin on the varsitty squad. “A lot of kids nowadays don’t take the inittiative to try out for varsity,” Haley said. ““This kid went out of his way to send me an eemail and tell me how much he wanted to be a part of this team, this tradition and follow in hhis dad’s footsteps. That, to me, is what it’s al all about. These kids got it, we’ve just got to ge get it out of them.” After Week 5, a loss to AlleganyLi Limestone, Haley allowed some reflection. The loss to the Gators, he said, showed an Th im improvement from a shutout against So Southwestern. “The losses are tough to take, but not when we we’re watching these kids grow,” he said. “We’ve got some guys coming in the future “W that’ll be fun to watch. tha “We know the score. But to watch the progres ress — a lot of teams get to 0-4, 0-5 and they sta start quitting — these guys are picking up steam. We might not win a game this year but ste we’re making progress. These kids are learning we mo more about life. You’re going to take your lum lumps and get back up.”
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Alumni return to honor centennial Salamanca football’s past, future discussed at dinner By Sam Wilson Sports Editor SALAMANCA — D.J. Whitmore of course wanted to honor his alma mater’s 100th anniversary of football, but there was another reason to bring Salamanca alumni back for the home opener. The program had just undergone a difficult summer between seasons, considering but ultimately rejecting a football merger with rival AlleganyLimestone. Numbers were still low — four returning letterwinners — as the team began its 2015 season. The 100th season would happen, but where does the program go to start a second century? “Any time you do something for 100 years and you do it very well, at a high level, it’s something you need to celebrate,” Whitmore told the audience of football alumni and family. “Also, this year we had some struggles with our football program. There was the possibility of losing our football program, the total existence of it and the identity of it. So I thought that this event would unify us, bring us closer together and hopefully, as a community, support the players, the coaches, the school and the community. Together we can return Salamanca football to greatness.” A longtime Salamanca booster, who called his football memories “up there with having my kids and marrying my wife,” Whitmore made an appeal to residents to keep their students in school locally. “Once upon a time, Salamanca was a football destination,” he said. “It wasn’t that long ago that parents from other districts were pulling their kids out to come to Salamanca because of the pride and tradition down here. My brother and myself were Little Valley kids, Kyle Lester was a Little Valley kid, and I can name a bunch more. Today it’s the opposite. A lot of parents in this community are farming their kids out to Randolph or Ellicottville. “All I have to say to that is let’s keep our kids at home. Let’s support the programs at home. Let’s keep our Warriors here.” The room included several coaches, all Salamanca graduates: Salamanca’s Paul Haley
and his staff; Haley’s predecessor, Jason Marsh; AlleganyLimestone’s Paul Furlong and Franklinville-Ellicottville’s Chad Bartoszek and Chris Mendell. For Furlong, Salamanca football has been family. His father and uncle played in the ‘40s and ‘50s, he and his brother in the ‘80s and his sister kept stats for the team. “I look at everybody in here and I can just see numbers and plays guys made on the field,” he said. “It’s just a phenomenal place that we have and a phenomenal place where we grew up. It’s funny, the guys I work with now, every night I have a Salamanca story and I know they get sick and tired of it. But myself, I had to move to a different school, but I know what I’m trying to take and put in a different community down the road.” Whitmore turned the microphone to his honored guests (see related story, C3) George Whitcher and Rich Morton, and the audience to share memories, ask questions or answer trivia from Morton. Aaron Hill, a Salamanca graduate and former assistant coach, played video highlights from the Whitcher and Morton years. Tyler Heron, a longtime youth coach and former assistant to Jason Marsh, vouched for football as a life tool. “There’s a lot of success out there (in this room) and it can be traced to being disciplined,” he said. “It’s not discipline as far as right and wrong, but the discipline of football and how to attain and achieve goals in your life.” Heron pointed out that many communities have struggled to keep their own football teams. “It’s hard to get young people to make a commitment to anything long-term,” he said. “That’s not just this community. Look at the schools that have merged just to play football. People still want to play football but it’s not like it used to be. How do you change all that around? I don’t know. “It’s good to see Paul (Haley) make that effort. They’re a young team and they’re going to take their lumps. But it’s good to see no slash after Salamanca. Keep it alive. Whatever we can do to help, send us a text.”
Salamanca’s Big 30 honorees Big 30 Awards Player of the Year Bob Nugent Jeff Davis Dan Dry T.J. Brol Dustin Ross
1965 1970 1977 1990 2001
Defensive Player of the Year Arron Whitmore Jason Siafakas Justin Hager
1989 1999 2004
Coach of the Year Joe Sanfilippo George Whitcher Rich Morton Jason Marsh
1964, 1971 1982, 1993 2001 2011
Unsung Lineman of the Year Jay Haley Don John Ray Haley Chris Gillfillan Jeremy John
1982 1984 1986 1987 1992
Sportsmanship Award Team
1998
The Olean Times Herald’s Big 30 Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year Awards bear the names of Salamanca’s Louis Foy and Gary Sage. Gary Sage, the namesake for the player of the year award, played at Salamanca (Class of 1960) before his untimely passing in 1959. Louis Foy, for whom the defensive award is named, served as Salamanca’s athletic director and track and Louis Foy field coach until his death in 1981. The track at Salamanca High School is also named for Foy.
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It’s just a phenomenal place that we have and a phenomenal place where we grew up.
BIG 30 ALL-STARS Year-by-Year 1968: Dennis Painter (OG), Cliff Hogan (DB) 1969: Jeff Davis (OT), Cliff Hogan (DB) 1970: Jeff Davis (OT), Joe Speroni (DB), Jay Jewell (DB) 1971: Tom Sartori (OE), Randy Hardy (RB), Carl Sanfilippo (DT), Mike Pecora (MG), Jay Jewell (DB), Joe Caruso, Ron Wojtowicz (RB) 1972: Stu Davis (OE), John Weir (OT), Ron Wojtowicz (RB), Mark Sartori (LB) 1973: Chuck Meissner (OG), John Weir (OT), Jack Hager (DE), Mark Sartori (LB) 1974: Vince Olivero (OG), Ron Dolecki (DE), Chuck Meissner (OL) 1975: Joe Roosa (OG), Jim O’Rourke (DL), Brad Weitzel (DB) 1976: Jud Hager (OL), Bob Paprocki (RB), John O’Rourke (DL), Mark Dry (LB) 1977: Jay Weitzel (LB), Joel Quattrone (DB), Todd Hager (OL), Chris Myers (OL), Dan Dry (RB) 1978: Chris Myers (OL), Pete Lee (OL), Bud Herrick (DL) 1979: Pete Lee (OL), Todd Bullers (DB) 1980: John Cappelino (OL) 1981: Todd Heidrick (QB), Jim Mendell (RB) 1982: Mack MacLeod (OL), Jay Haley (OL), Todd Heidrick (QB), Chris Krantz (RB), Jim Knaus (DL), Dave Zariczny (LB) 1983: Todd Titus (DB) 1984: Joe Myers (OL), Carl Agnelli (RB), Mike Whitcher (DE) 1985: Mike John (LB) 1986: Ray Haley (OL), Joe Bierfeldt (RB), Mike Stoeckel (DL), Pat Hogan (DB) 1987: Chris Gilfillan (OL), Paul Myers (C), Mark Halftown (QB), Paul Furlong (RB), Travis Heron (LB) 1988: Pete Siperek (OL), Jim Magara (DE), Kyle Lester (LB) 1989: T.J. Brol (LB), D.J. Leiper (DB), Jene Oyer (OL), Arron Whitmmore (DE) 1990: Jeff Krantz (QB), T.J. Brol (RB), Jason Marsh (OE), Jean Oyer (OL), Steve Emborsky (C) 1991: Mike Ficek (QB), Bob Kurek (RB), Chris Barney (OL) 1992: Mike Ficek (DB), Jeremy John (OL), Ed Vassar (RB)
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— Paul Furlong
Above, George Whitcher (far left) and D.J. Whitmore laugh as Rich Morton (right) speaks at a dinner honoring the 100th anniversary of Salamanca football. Below, a tunnel of Salamanca youth players and alumni lines up before the Warriors’ varsity home opener Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 at Veterans’ Park.
1993: Tom Callen (DE), Paul Haley (LB) 1994: Todd Krantz (LB) 1995: Thad Grabowski (DB) 1996: Dave Osborne (OL), Eric Dulanski (DE), Darren Ross (LB) 1997: Darren Ross (LB) 1998: Chad Bartoszek (OE), Logan Pascarella (LB), Adam Weitzel (K/P) 1999: Chris Drugg (RB), Josh Hostuttler (LB), Marty Jacobson (DL), Andy Murphy (OL), Jason Siafakas (DB) 2000: Victor Arena (LB), Aaron Deboy (C), Cameron Haines (DB), Dustin Ross (RB), Kyle Scott (E)
2001: Aaron Deboy (C), Cameron Haines (DB), Mike Liberatore (LB), Dustin Ross (RB) 2004: Justin Hager (LB) 2005: Billy Roosa (SE) 2006: Mike Crandall (DB) 2007: Tyler Smith (DB) 2009: Carmen Papa (RB) 2010: Ben Haas (LB) 2011: Ben Haas (RB), Tanner John (DB) 2012: Tanner John (QB), Dusty Lewis (DE), Cameron Caputi (LB) 2013: Brad Cunningham (DE)
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Whitcher, Morton recall Salamanca years By Sam Wilson Sports Editor SALAMANCA — The way George Whitcher tells it, there’s one man responsible for bringing him to Salamanca. The winningest coach in Warriors history, Whitcher had left coaching and teaching to sell insurance in Bemus Point before an opening in Salamanca struck his eye. “I really missed football,” Whitcher told the attendees of a dinner honoring Salamanca’s 100th anniversary of football Sept. 10. Whitcher applied and visited the school, where athletic director Louis Foy met him. “He heard that I was coming and said, ‘The job is yours if you want it,’” Whitcher recalled. “I said I’ve got to talk with the superintendent. He says, ‘Don’t worry about the superintendent. I’m Louie Foy.’ And he was right. He carried that kind of clout, and so when I sat down with the superintendent it was a formality. It was a done deal. I take a look at some of the guys I coached and how they struggled to get jobs and how I fell into one.
those expectations.” The retired coach, who left Salamanca in 1998 with a .734 winning percentage, estimated in all his years, he had about three kids who were “a pain in the butt.” “The rest of them were absolutely dynamite,” he said. “That says a lot because if you figure out how many kids I coached in this town, to have that to say about the kids that I had is miraculous.” Whitcher turned to the current state of high school football in Salamanca, expressing optimism for rebuilding the Warriors. “It’s very important for our The press box at Salamanca’s Veterans’ Park bears the name of the kids to regain that expectation Warriors’ winningest coach in program history, George Whitcher. that the community is behind them and that what they’re doing is important,” he insistIt doesn’t seem fair.” can have a better community ed. “We’re perfectly capable By hiring Whitcher as an to coach in than what I had,” of beating these teams if we assistant to Joe Sanfilippo, he said before pausing to colcan get the numbers and the Foy had found the coach who lect himself. “I had good kids who work hard during would later replace him and parental support, I had good the summer. It was a great win 167 games and six community following. We career and I owe an awful lot Section 6 championships. used to draw 1,000 people, to this community. Thank you Whitcher became emotion- 1,100 people to a game. The very much. al at the dinner remembering stadium was packed and the “I hope it comes back. the support he received from expectations were extremely There’s nothing in its prime the community and players he high. The parents, the cominherited when taking the munity itself, the expectations like the red and grey.” Whitcher’s fellow honored head coaching position in were extremely high. I think guest at the dinner, his suc1974. it made our kids better cessor and former assistant “I don’t know how you because they try to live up to
Rich Morton, said he now looks at football as a tool, which helped turn high school boys into men. “I think just by looking out here tonight, all the success that we see in this room as adult males and what you learned coming through the program speaks volumes,” said Morton, who went 42-19 in six seasons as coach. “It gives us great pride. Not the wins and the losses. To see you guys going through that time of your life in college and becoming who you are today. We can’t ask any more than that. Football was just a tool to get you there.” Morton led the only Salamanca team to make the New York State Public High School championship his first year as head coach. But it’s not the big games, wins and awards that Morton says he reflects on. “As I think back to the days when we coached and the things that we did, I think about the days we went scouting, some of the nonsense that went on there,” he said. “The gamedays are great, the awards and accolades that came along with it, but I remember now as I’m here
today to see all the guys we coached. Look at all the guys that we coached that are now part of that coaching fraternity: Paul (Furlong), Chris (Mendell), Chad (Bartoszek), our Salamanca guys. “I still talk to a lot of the guys we coached. That’s special to have. Football will be around forever, but those friendships won’t be.”
Sanfilippo, coach from 1957-1973, remembered This story originally appeared in the May 14, 2015 edition of The Salamanca Press.
By Sam Wilson Sports Editor For all the success he enjoyed on the football field under Joe Sanfilippo, including an undefeated season, Jud Foy said his greatest memories of the coach were away from it. Son of the late Salamanca administrator and coach Louis Foy, Jud played high school football from 1968-72, near the end of Sanfilippo’s run with the Warriors. “You have to understand, we feared Joe,” Foy said. “He was the disciplinarian and one thing you learned about Joe is you don’t make the same mistake twice. But our senior year, Carl, his son, was one of my closest friends in high school and in May, we had our junior-senior prom. Joe invited all of us seniors who played for him to come to his house after the prom to hang out with our dates. “We weren’t sure what to expect because we just feared this man like there was no tomorrow, but he showed us this human side of him we never knew existed. We played pool with him, we did other things and it wasn’t the same man who coached us in football.” Sanfilippo, a Navy veteran, legendary coach and San Jose State star, died Sunday (May 3, 2015) in Syracuse at Veterans Medical Center at 91. He arrived in Salamanca in 1957, named the school’s football coach that August, after moving from Gallup, N.M., where his coaching career began. After a 1-6 debut season, he built the Warriors into a powerhouse with four undefeated seasons (1964, 1965, 1967 and 1971) and went a total record of 95-33-4. After two of his undefeated seasons, 1964 and 1971, he was named Big 30 coach of the year. His Salamanca tenure included 11 championships in the then-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Interscholastic Athletic Conference and Division VI of the Section VI Football Federation. “He was an old-school, very basic, disciplined football coach,” Foy said. “We did not have a lot of plays in Salamanca, but what we did have, he practiced us to perfection. The man could tear apart an opposing team’s offense or defense like there was no tomorrow.” Among the Warriors’ stars under Sanfilippo were his
son, Carl Sanfilippo, his son who went on to a successful coaching career in Baldwinsville, and former Giants, Saints and 49ers safety Chuck Crist. “He brought discipline and work ethic to the program,” said Crist, the former Salamanca principal. “Looking back on it, the thing that he brought — believe it or not — he did a lot of nonfootball things to bring the camaraderie in. The one that comes to mind is we had this old wooden sled, it just had boards in the front and some runners on it. There were nights that we were out there 30 minutes, 40 minutes after dark, pushing this thing around and it really had nothing to do with conditioning or football as it did building the camaraderie of the team.” Crist played from 1965-67 at Salamanca, then at later Penn State and the NFL. Chief among Sanfilippo’s traditions were strategically planned Saturday night home games. “He wanted to show off the program: we were the only game in town,” Crist said. “And the coaching staff was free to go scouting on Friday nights. We went seven days a week, practiced Monday through Friday, played on Saturday and had film sessions on Sunday.” Brad Weitzel had the distinction of scoring Sanfilippo’s last touchdown at Salamanca and George Whitcher’s first and wrote a book of the Sanfilippo and Whitcher years. “Tuesday was the most grueling test of manhood I’ve ever been through as a human being,” wrote Weitzel wrote by email. “We blocked and tackled for over 3 hours and all of this was live (it was brutal but I would love to do it again). Wednesday was a repeat of Tuesday. By the end of the week we’d all be beat up from pounding on each other and then he would start telling us how good we were. Then he’d have us in a fevered pitch for punishing the other team. On Saturday, that’s what we did. Everybody was afraid of us. People from outside thought we were animals — disciplined animals. We did not lack confidence and I have to say that carries down from Coach Sanfilippo because I think he was the most confident person of what he did more than anybody I’ve ever met.” Weitzel is an eight-year assistant baseball coach for the University of Florida. After playing for Palm Beach Community College and the University of Georgia, Weitzel has spent the last
three decades in baseball coaching and scouting. “After high school I often think how (Sanfilippo) has helped me mold myself because of his philosophies of discipline and preparation in my 36 years of coaching collegiately and professional baseball,” he wrote. “I can’t imagine where I’d be today if I didn’t have the opportunity of being around Coach Sanfilippo. “Actually, looking back at how tough he was and how hard he worked us, I feel blessed.” A native of Jamestown, the elder Sanfilippo left Salamanca after the 1973 season and took the Red Raiders’ head coaching position in 1975. Sanfilippo’s two football coaching jobs took remarkably similar tracks. Sanfilippo’s first Jamestown team struggled at 1-8 but went 48-22-2 over the next eight years. “He was very sure of himself,” said Whitcher, Sanfilippo’s Salamanca successor after six years as an assistant. “He knew his way would work and that gave him a lot of confidence. That first year at Jamestown, I happened to be in a graduate class with people from Jamestown and they were bad-mouthing because they had a bad year. I said, ‘You wait. He went through the same thing at Salamanca and look what he did there.’ You just wait, give him a year and see what happens. It was almost like a carbon copy at Jamestown to what he did at Salamanca.” Sanfilippo, looking for an assistant, approached junior high coach Wally Huckno in 1976. Huckno succeeded Sanfilippo in Jamestown in 1983. “I didn’t know, I was pretty happy, but I thought I’d give it a try,” Huckno said. “I remember we went to Buffalo and we beat Kenmore East and it was like the first big win we had and we were both so excited. “He certainly was a taskmaster. He was a great defensive coach and he certainly took his players that played under him and he made sure they were in their prime physical condition, knew their assignments well and I would say generally he was quite a good teacher of the youth on the football field and the things they should and shouldn’t do.” Between his first job in Cathedral High in New Mexico, Salamanca and Jamestown, Sanfilippo retired with a total record of 170-607. Both Huckno and
Photo courtesy Salamanca Area Historical Society
From left, Salamanca’s Bob Nugent, coach George Whitcher, John Weir, Tom Sartori and Joe Sanfilippo stand outside the school.
Whitcher carried on Sanfilippo’s success at the two schools. At Salamanca, Whitcher became the school’s all-time winningest coach at 167-59-5, posting a near-identical win percentage (.734) to Sanfilippo (.735 at SHS). Huckno won three state championships. “The program was so wellestablished by Joe, and a lot of people don’t realize that the program was not all that strong — it had a couple of moments, but it wasn’t all that strong,” Whitcher said. “When he took over, that first year was a real bad year, and from then on they were just on the upswing. He was lucky in a sense that he had some great players, but he also played a very tough schedule so he needed everything he had, kids like Chuck Crist and Tommy George, Chuck Light. He knew how to use them.” Sanfilippo’s teams didn’t surprise anyone, running hard and running often, the source of one of Whitcher’s favorite stories. The two were gameplanning Sunday afternoon when Sanfilippo gets a call from Salamanca’s Dick Fitzgerald.
“‘I’m down at the club and we’re having a big argument here,’” Whitcher recalls Fitzgerald saying. “‘We’re watching the game and the quarterback took the ball, he backed up, he looked downfield and he THREW it. He didn’t give it to anybody, Joe, he threw it. I told the guys that’s got to be illegal, because if it was legal, Joe would do it.’ Joe at first was taken aback and then he started laughing like crazy. A lot of people didn’t realize the sense of humor Joe had.” Foy’s other favorite memory of his coach came months after graduation. Over the summer, he umpired for Sanfilippo, who ran the Salamanca Youth Activities. One day, he said, they came
across Salamanca and St. Bonaventure tennis star Pat Blocher. “Joe saw an extra racket and he said, ‘Pat, do you want to play?’” Foy recalled. “What nobody knew, and my late father told me, Joe was a state tennis champion in New Mexico. And he took Pat Blocher apart, 6-1, like there was no tomorrow and Joe was in street shoes. “My late father told me when he got the athletic director job at Salamanca, he knew who the man was who he wanted to turn around the football program and keep the football tradition going. He wanted to get Joe Sanfilippo, and that’s exactly what he did. The rest of the story is history.”
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Salamanca HS football, year-by-year Results prior to 2001 courtesy “Salamanca Football: Foundation-Tradition-Pride” written and compiled by John E. Rychcik and David E. Edstrom and published in September 2001 by RPJ Ready Print. 2014 (Jason Marsh): 3-5 39 Cassadaga Valley/Falconer 26 13 Lackawanna 0 0 Maple Grove/Chautauqua Lake 42 20 Southwestern 42 27 Allegany-Limestone 12 28 Gowanda 36 16 Springville 54 6 Cleveland Hill* 24 *=Section 6 quarterfinal 2013 (Jason Marsh): 6-2 12 Falconer 43 Silver Creek/Forestville 22 Fredonia 8 Springville 20 Southwestern 26 Allegany-Limestone 14 Gowanda 16 Lackawanna* *=Section 6 quarterfinal 2012 (Paul Furlong): 7-2 7 Springville 24 Cassadaga Valley 28 Allegany-Limestone 46 Southwestern 64 Gowanda 41 Falconer 7 Westfield/Brocton 21 Cleveland Hill* 21 Allegany-Limestone** *=Section 6 quarterfinal **=matchup game 2011 (Jason Marsh): 6-2 14 Springville 33 Falconer 20 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 21 Southwestern 35 Westfield/Brocton 37 Cassadaga Valley 28 Allegany-Limestone 2 Akron* *=Section 6 quarterfinal 2010 (Jason Marsh): 5-4 0 Fredonia 0 Southwestern 30 Royalton-Hartland 21 Cassadaga Valley 41 Falconer 14 Allegany-Limestone 7 Cleveland Hill 22 Wilson (playoffs) 0 Southwestern* *=Section 6 quarterfinal
8 0 31 0 20 6 6 54 18
2009 (Jason Marsh): 3-6 Frewsburg Southwestern Finney Fredonia Falconer Allegany-Limestone Cassadaga Valley Royalton-Hartland Falconer
2008 (Jason Marsh): 3-6 8 Allegany-Limestone 18 Cassadaga Valley 0 Fredonia 35 Falconer 0 Silver Creek 14 Southwestern 37 Westfield 0 Cleveland Hill* 18 Gowanda** *=Section 6 quarterfinal **Consolation bowl semifinal 2007 (Jason Marsh): 6-3 6 Fredonia 27 Panama 0 Falconer 19 Gowanda 57 Royalton-Hartland 24 Allegany-Limestone 14 Cassadaga Valley 25 Silver Creek* 13 Falconer** *=Section 6 quarterfinal **=Section 6 semifinal 2006 (Jason Marsh): 3-6 0 Fredonia 7 Allegany-Limestone 8 Falconer 32 Gowanda 28 JFK 6 Ellicottville 0 Silver Creek 31 Cassadaga Valley 6 Silver Creek* *=Section 6 semifinal 2005 (Jason Marsh): 5-5 8 Fredonia 6 Silver Creek 34 Wilson 27 Cleveland Hill 21 Alllegany-Limestone 6 Falconer 27 Alden 12 JFK 22 Falconer* 18 Cleveland Hill** *=Consolation bowl semifinal **=Consolation bowl final 2004 (Rich Morton): 6-4 12 Fredonia 6 Akron 22 Gowanda 31 Allegany-Limestone 6 Falconer 36 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 14 Portville 25 Cassadaga Valley 31 Wilson* 13 Cassadaga Valley** *=Consolation bowl semifinal **=Consolation bowl final
6 32 6 6 8 6 14 16
0 36 28 12 0 8 20 12
2003 (Rich Morton): 1-7 Fredonia Wilson Gowanda Cassadaga Valley Falconer Cattaraugus-Little Valley Portville Allegany-Limestone 2002 (Rich Morton): 3-5 Gowanda Wilson Portville Cassadaga Valley Cattaraugus-Little Valley Lackawanna Falconer Allegany-Limestone
0 18 22 7 14 7 0 32
6 8 20 47 8 8 6 28 0
21 18 6 10 13 13 6 20
33 48 20 6 6 8 12 0 37
25 41 9 13 6 26 14 0 20
23 0 32 22 21 30 14 12 27
21 0 21 0 0 7 3 6 14
7 10 23 14 6 12 28 7 27
0 20 22 14 22 13 0 33 6 48
6 9 0 16 13 0 37 0 12 15
20 0 9 13 36 9 33 22
21 8 31 22 10 52 12 6
2001 (Rich Morton): 11-1 56 Gowanda 34 Silver Creek 19 Portville 58 Cleveland Hill 16 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 30 Cassadaga Valley 50 Falconer 26 Allegany-Limestone 50 Cleveland Hill* 28 Eden** 28 LeRoy*** 8 Delhi**** *=Section 6 semifinal **=Section 6 C final ***=Far West Regional ****=NYS semifinal 2000 (Rich Morton): 9-1 38 Eden 40 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 34 Portville 40 Silver Creek 22 Gowanda 18 Allegany-Limestone 36 Falconer 28 Cassadaga Valley 46 Eden* 32 Cleveland Hill** *=Section 6 semifinal **-Section 6 championship 1999 (Rich Morton): 12-1 29 Cheektowaga 21 Allegany-Limestone 29 Gowanda 42 Portville 29 Falconer 22 Eden 42 Cassadaga Valley 40 Silver Creek 40 Eden* 38 Allegany-Limestone** 22 LeRoy*** 16 Dehli**** 20 Edgemont***** *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship ***=Far West Regional ****=NYS Final Four *****=NYS chamionship
7 0 18 14 14 16 6 6 8 7 23 28
7 0 8 0 14 0 0 6 0 34
14 7 0 6 0 15 6 6 6 12 13 12 32
1998 (George Whitcher): 9-2 6 Eden 8 32 Silver Creek 0 14 Falconer 12 32 Allegany-Limestone 0 35 Cassadaga Valley 7 31 Portville 0 33 Newfane 8 22 Gowanda 3 38 Gowanda* 0 24 Eden** 7 16 LeRoy*** 28 *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship ***=Far West Regional
29 20 12 12 6 30 23 14
1997 (George Whitcher): 6-2 Gowanda Nichols Prep Allegany-Limestone Cassadaga Valley Falconer St. Mary’s Portville Silver Creek
1996 (George Whitcher): 9-2 14 Eden 31 Cassadaga Valley 16 Gowanda 56 Silver Creek 20 Portville 20 Falconer 32 Southwestern 14 Allegany-Limestone 12 Gowanda* 14 East Aurora** 6 LeRoy*** *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship ***=Far West Regional 1995 (George Whitcher): 7-2 26 Silver Creek 29 Cassadaga Valley 10 Falconer 12 Randolph 20 Gowanda 55 Portville 36 Southwestern 41 Allegany-Limestone *=Section 6 semifinals
21 14 0 43 12 16 13 0
1994 (George Whitcher): 3-5 East Aurora Dunkirk Olean Southwestern Turner Carroll Gowanda Fredonia Eden
1993 (George Whitcher): 8-3 6 East Aurora 29 Dunkirk 26 Olean 20 Southwestern 7 Turner Carroll 0 Gowanda 14 Fredonia 6 Eden 12 Newfane* 12 Gowanda** 0 Caledonia-Mumford*** *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship ***=Far West Regional
15 6 13 6 12 7 14 12
0 0 0 0 21 21 14 8 7 6 20
0 0 0 16 14 15 14 8
0 22 30 28 30 25 7 27
14 0 18 0 6 20 8 0 6 6 27
1992 (George Whitcher): 7-3 14 East Aurora 8 20 Dunkirk 6 16 Olean 8 41 Southwestern 6 21 Turner Carroll 12 8 Gowanda 14 0 Fredonia 14 24 Eden 6 3 Royalton-Hartland 0 0 Gowanda 8 *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship
1989 (George Whitcher): 8-2 22 Allegany 16 Gowanda 35 Dunkirk 24 Fredonia 20 Southwestern 20 Pioneer 14 East Aurora 47 Olean 7 Falconer 12 Cleveland Hill *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship
1988 (George Whitcher): 7-3 46 JFK 6 14 Fredonia 0 14 Southwestern 0 12 Gowanda 6 2 Pioneer 6 16 Olean 14 22 Dunkirk 0 6 East Aurora 0 36 Silver Creek* 6 0 Allegany** 12 *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship 1987 (George Whitcher): 9-1 12 JFK 6 22 Fredonia 8 26 Southwestern 0 29 Gowanda 14 42 Pioneer 6 46 Olean 8 26 Dunkirk 0 26 East Aurora 0 29 Medina* 7 8 Albion** 15 *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship 1986 (George Whitcher): 7-1-1 43 Portville 0 15 Fredonia 15 18 Dunkirk 0 8 Springville 26 22 Gowanda 3 50 Southwestern 0 28 Pioneer 0 36 Olean 0 34 Starpoint* 28 *=Section 6 championship
19 0 27 0 18 14 6 36
1985 (George Whitcher): 4-3-1 Portville Fredonia Dunkirk Springville Gowanda Southwestern Pioneer Olean
14 6 0 18 12 14 20 8
1984 (George Whitcher): 7-2 35 Falconer 0 34 Dunkirk 0 23 Southwestern 12 21 Pioneer 6 40 Fredonia 0 7 Gowanda 6 6 Lackawanna 7 7 Olean 12 20 Springville* 6 *=Section 6 championship
20 18 28 14 7 12 14 14 13
0 8 7 27 7 15 0 8
0 29 14 16 6 14 6 0 6
27 21 12 32 33 12 53 28
1958 (Joe Sanfilippo): 7-1 Falconer Fredonia Southwestern Eden Dunkirk Bolivar Gowanda Randolph
7 6 6 6 6 14 7 6
0 13 18 0 0 13 7 39
1937 (Harold Houck): 5-3 Dunkirk Bradford Olean Falconer Fredonia St. Bernard’s Kane Lakewood
12 0 0 6 6 6 0 2
1974 (George Whitcher): 5-2-1 East Aurora 0 Albion 6 Southwestern 6 Olean 6 Dunkirk 19 Wellsville 14 Fredonia 20 Lake Shore 0
0 0 0 14 7 0 19
1957 (Joe Sanfilippo): 1-6 Falconer Southwestern Fredonia Bolivar Gowanda Dunkirk Randolph
20 31 20 13 33 20 21
26 12 12 7 19 0 20 39
1936 (Harold Houck): 4-3-1 St. Bernard’s Dunkirk Bradford Olean Falconer Lakewood Kane Allegany
0 13 28 13 0 0 0 0
7 0 7 32 32 34 13
1956 (Harry O’Neil): 5-2 Falconer Southwestern Dunkirk Bolivar Gowanda Randolph Fredonia
6 40 13 6 13 0 12
0 0 6 2 6 13 6
1935 (Harold Houck): 3-3-1 Dunkirk Allegany St. Bernard’s Olean Falconer Lakewood Kane
26 0 0 12 0 0 25
0 20 0 7 6 14
1955 (Harry O’Neil): 1-5 Southwestern Falconer Allegany Bolivar Fredonia Gowanda
19 34 40 25 19 13
0 0 0 19 14 0 6
1954 (Joe Dutkosky): 1-6 Southwestern Falconer Allegany Franklinville Fredonia Bolivar Gowanda
26 14 35 6 39 26 40
0 12 6 6 19 19 32 2
1934 (Harold Houck): 4-3-1 Lakewood Allegany Bradford Olean Hamburg St. Bernard’s Gowanda Kane
0 0 26 12 6 2 0 19
19 6 13 6 39 6 6
1953 (Joe Dutkosky): 1-6 Southwestern Fredonia Olean Falconer Westfield Gowanda Bolivar
38 29 40 7 0 38 27
8 0 0 33 31 6 59 26 22
1933 (Thomas Moore): 7-2 Silver Creek Olean Bradford Jamestown “B” Portville Ellicottville Little Valley Kane Gowanda
0 7 26 6 6 0 0 6 0
6 0 6 0 39 44 0
1952 (Joe Dutkosky): 2-5 Southwestern Fredonia Olean Falconer Westfield Gowanda Bolivar
25 39 49 7 6 13 28
0 39 7 3 7 0 6 7
1932 (Thomas Moore): 2-6 Jamestown “B” Silver Creek Lakewood Gowanda Warren Wellsville Little Valley Olean
12 0 12 0 47 12 12 51
0 12 0 6 13 0 14 12
1951 (Joe Dutkosky): 2-6 Southwestern Falconer Olean Fredonia Gowanda Bolivar Westfield Randolph
12 25 25 40 20 25 12 6
2 6 6 7 26 19 0 20
1950 (Clair Lankow): 4-4 Falconer Gowanda Olean Jamestown “B” Westfield Fredonia Southwestern Silver Creek
7 13 0 26 6 13 26 19
0 0 6 19 13 0 0 12
1949 (Harold Houck): 2-6 Falconer Olean Gowanda Jamestown “B” Westfield Southwestern Fredonia Silver Creek
20 20 20 21 6 20 44 6
1975 (George Whitcher): 6-3 Southwestern Fredonia Pioneer Lake Shore Dunkirk Olean Albion East Aurora Springville
46 0 16 8 38 6 40 14
1973 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-1-1 Albion East Aurora Olean Dunkirk Wellsville Fredonia Southwestern Lake Shore
6 6 2 0 0 6 0 12
20 28 6 6 24 6 42 0
1972 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-2 Albion Trott Dunkirk Wellsville Fredonia Southwestern Falconer Kane
18 8 0 0 6 7 8 6
15 44 30 15 26 44 7 39
1971 (Joe Sanfilippo): 8-0 Albion Trott Dunkirk Wellsville Fredonia Southwestern Falconer Kane
12 6 19 6 0 18 0 6
20 0 18 8 6 6 6 22
1970 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-2 Albion Dunkirk Wellsville Fredonia Southwestern Falconer Ridgway Kane
0 20 0 0 0 0 14 0
8 0 0 19 6 20 6
1969 (Joe Sanfilippo): 4-3 Albion Falconer Dunkirk Fredonia Southwestern Wellsville Southwestern
6 8 21 6 13 0 0
0 6 6 7 20 0 12
1968 (Joe Sanfilippo): 3-4 Albion Falconer Dunkirk Harbor Creek Fredonia Southwestern Wellsville
7 0 13 0 6 6 19
27 33 26 32 47 37 45 33
1967 (Joe Sanfilippo): 8-0 Springville Southwestern Falconer Dunkirk Gowanda Fredonia Wellsville Kane
12 6 6 12 6 19 6 0
34 6 41 7 13 0 0 6 35
1983 (George Whitcher): 4-5 Falconer Dunkirk Southwestern Pioneer Fredonia Gowanda Lackawanna Olean Wellsville
36 18 43 16 28 30 42 20 20
1982 (George Whitcher): 9-0 Eden 6 Pioneer 6 Southwestern 7 Dunkirk 14 Fredonia 12 Gowanda 13 Falconer 0 Olean 0 Depew* 6
25 13 32 0 20 31 43 6
1966 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-1-1 Grand Island Wellsville Fredonia Southwestern Falconer Dunkirk Gowanda Olean
0 0 13 0 7 6 13 7
14 28 12 2 12 28 6 14
1981 (George Whitcher): 5-3 Eden Pioneer Southwestern Dunkirk Fredonia Gowanda Falconer Olean
7 15 8 28 15 0 0 35
38 34 21 13 20 32 33 14
1965 (Joe Sanfilippo): 8-0 Wellsville Gowanda Fredonia Southwestern Falconer Dunkirk Johnsonburg Kane
13 0 0 6 0 7 0 0
8 22 6 8 6 15 13 12 6
1980 (George Whitcher): 4-5 Olean Gowanda Springville Dunkirk Falconer Fredonia Southwestern Kane Wellsvile
21 0 24 15 13 6 0 14 0
37 53 40 41 33 0 32 30
1964 (Joe Sanfilippo): 7-0-1 Wellsville Dunkirk Gowanda Fredonia Southwestern Falconer Johnsonburg Kane
13 13 7 14 7 0 20 0
21 13 0 7 21 7 17 6 31
1979 (George Whitcher): 5-3-1 Olean Gowanda Springville Dunkirk Falconer Fredonia Southwestern Kane Medina
13 12 21 0 19 6 0 6
1963 (Joe Sanfilippo): 3-5 Wellsville Falconer Dunkirk Gowanda Fredonia Southwestern Kane Bishop Walsh
7 20 0 13 6 13 26 13
18 26 54 19 0 26 27 0
1962 (Joe Sanfilippo): 4-3-1 Kane Southwestern Falconer Dunkirk Gowanda Fredonia Dansville Bishop Walsh
32 0 0 19 6 13 7 19
6 32 27 27 38 7 37 19
1961 (Joe Sanfilippo): 7-1 Kane Fredonia Southwestern Falconer Dunkirk Gowanda Dansville Bishop Walsh
0 6 0 19 7 8 0 0
12 21 7 35 13 32 32 40
1960 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-2 Kane Fredonia Falconer Dunkirk Southwestern Youngsville Bishop Walsh Gowanda
18 0 12 7 6 14 0 26
14 6 9 14 19 31 7
1959 (Joe Sanfilippo): 5-2 Fredonia Southwestern Dunkirk Gowanda Youngsville Falconer Portville
12 21 0 0 0 13 19
0 14 21 0 14 16 26 33 0
0 14 28 0 12 20 14 6 0
1978 (George Whitcher): 7-2 6 Springville 14 19 Olean 7 0 Nichols 14 30 Southwestern 12 18 Falconer 6 34 Dunkirk 12 13 Fredonia 7 28 Gowanda 8 34 Medina 6
1991 (George Whitcher): 8-1 36 East Aurora 0 42 Dunkirk 0 35 Olean 6 51 Southwestern 0 60 O’Hara 0 43 Gowanda 14 42 Fredonia 0 45 Eden 6 6 Falconer* 12 *=Section 6 semifinals
20 16 10 26 26 6 21 50 44
1990 (George Whitcher): 9-1 35 Allegany 20 Gowanda 56 Dunkirk 34 Fredonia 6 Southwestern 12 Pioneer 42 East Aurora 33 Olean 32 Cleveland Hill* 23 Wilson** *=Section 6 semifinals **=Section 6 championship
13 21 42 18 7 14 28 28 20
0 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0
0 12 18 12 0 6 15 16 6 14
1977 (George Whitcher): 7-1-1 Springville Olean Nichols Southwestern Falconer Fredonia Dunkirk Gowanda Lackawanna
12 26 0 12 8 6 14 21 0
1976 (George Whitcher): 7-2 Southwestern 7 Springville 24 Fredonia 7 Pioneer 6 Lake Shore 18 Dunkirk 6 Olean 12 Albion 0 East Aurora 6
6 0 6 25 7 19 28 9
1948 (Harold Houck): 2-5-1 Falconer Olean Wellsville Silver Creek Fredonia Jamestown “B” Gowanda Westfield
7 27 40 18 42 19 13 13
6 13 6 21 6 13 13
1947 (Harold Houck): 3-4 Silver Creek Olean Gowanda Westfield Fredonia Jamestown “B” Falconer
13 32 14 14 7 0 0
7 27 0 26 20 41 12
1946 (Harold Houck): 5-2 Falconer Olean East Aurora Gowanda Allegany Dunkirk Wellsville
6 19 12 7 7 0 20
0 0 7 9 6 38
1945 (Harold Houck): 2-4 Olean Jamestown “B” Falconer Dunkirk Gowanda Allegany
25 18 38 13 0 7
18 0 0 12 0 19 0 24 6
1931 (Thomas Moore): 4-4-1 St. Bernard’s 0 Bradford 0 Wellsville 7 Gowanda 6 Warren 26 Little Valley 18 Olean 6 Fredonia 6 Gowanda 7
0 7 12 44 25 99 19 6
1930 (Thomas Moore): 5-2-1 Dunkirk Wellsville Alfred Frosh St. Bernard’s Warren Westfield Olean Fredonia
20 12 14 39 13 0 7 13 ccd. 0
1929 (Thomas Moore): 6-1-2 Celeron 0 Olean 0 Allegany 7 St. Bernard’s 0 Alfred Frosh 12 Westfield 8 Bradford 7 Gowanda 0 Fredonia Wellsville 0
19 0 0 0 13 0 19 20
38 0 0 12 7 6 21 0 0 6
1928 (Thomas Moore): 4-6 Little Valley Warren Jamestown “B” Gowanda Bradford Olean Alfred Frosh Port Allegany Allegany Fredonia
0 26 45 0 0 12 0 12 20 10
24 8 18 24 19 0 19 27
1927 (Thomas Moore): 6-2 Falconer Bradford Allegany Little Valley Cuba Olean Springville Lakewood
6 26 0 2 7 12 0 6
0 0 6 2 6 20
1926 (Thomas Moore): 4-2 Springville Port Allegany Falconer Salamanca Alumni Allegany Bolivar
6 67 0 0 0 0
1925: High school football not fielded
1942-44: No interscholastic football, World War II
6 25 0 6 27 12 19
1941 (Harold Houck): 5-1-1 Gowanda Wellsville Olean Dunkirk Jamestown “B” Falconer Fredonia
0 26 0 0 6 7 0
7 28 13 19 26 21 19
1940 (Harold Houck): 5-2 Gowanda Wellsville Olean Falconer Fredonia Dunkirk Jamestown “B”
18 7 37 6 0 0 7
4 12 0 0 12 12 12
1939 (Harold Houck): 2-4-1 Gowanda Bradford Olean Falconer Fredonia Jamestown “B” Dunkirk
6 38 12 0 6 19 0
0 0 0 13 0 37
1938 (Harold Houck): 2-3-1 Dunkirk Bradford Olean Falconer Fredonia Jamestown “B”
26 20 7 7 0 0
25 0 20 0 6
1924 (Rowland ‘Pop’ Grey): 2-3 Bradford Gowanda Bolivar Olean Hornell
6 6 0 44 41
3 7 20 0 0 12 18 26 0
1923 (Rowland ‘Pop’ Grey): 5-4 Gowanda Bradford St. Bernard’s Portville Springville St. Bonaventure Prep. Gowanda Cuba Wellsville
0 32 0 38 15 0 0 7 13
1922 (Schoenenberg & Ben Newton): 3-6 6 Bradford 13 0 Cuba 26 6 Cuba 13 0 Bradford 31 6 South Dayton 24 20 Portville 6 20 Bolivar 0 18 Gowanda 0 0 Ridgway 24
6 6 27 0 25 26 0 0
1921(Krieger): 4-4 Cuba Salamanca Alumni St. Bernard’s Olean Gowanda Gowanda Cuba St. Bonaventure Prep.
0 7 0 62 6 6 7 19
75 0 39 0
1920 (Fish): 2-2 St. Bernard’s Wellsville Randolph South Dayton
0 66 7 26
Results from 1915-1919 unavailable