100 years of Salamanca Football100 years of Salamanca Football

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 Franklinville-Ellicottville, 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 con-sidered a down year.

“We had three returning starters going into my senior year,” Haley said. “No one expect-ed us to do much. We didn’t have much com-ing 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.

“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 pre-game “moshpit,” Salamanca overturned the regular season meeting for a 12-6 champi-onship 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 out one of his players, freshman Ira John, as an example of a young man willing to put in necessary work. John emailed Haley over the summer, making a personal appeal to join his brother and cousin on the varsi-ty squad.

“A lot of kids nowadays don’t take the ini-tiative to try out for varsity,” Haley said. “This kid went out of his way to send me an email and tell me how much he wanted to be a part of this team, this tradition and follow in his dad’s footsteps. That, to me, is what it’s all about. These kids got it, we’ve just got to get it out of them.”

After Week 5, a loss to Allegany-Limestone, Haley allowed some reflection. The loss to the Gators, he said, showed an improvement from a shutout against Southwestern.

“The losses are tough to take, but not when we’re watching these kids grow,” he said. “We’ve got some guys coming in the future that’ll be fun to watch.

“We know the score. But to watch the prog-ress — a lot of teams get to 0-4, 0-5 and they start quitting — these guys are picking up steam. We might not win a game this year but we’re making progress. These kids are learning more about life. You’re going to take your lumps and get back up.”

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Press photo by Sam WilsonSalamanca varsity football players huddle before the home opener of the team’s 100th season Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 at Veterans’ Park against Lackawanna.

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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 under-gone a difficult summer between seasons, considering but ultimately rejecting a foot-ball merger with rival Allegany-Limestone. Numbers were still low — four returning letterwin-ners — 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 some-thing you need to celebrate,” Whitmore told the audience of football alumni and family. “Also, this year we had some struggles with our football pro-gram. 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 foot-ball to greatness.”

A longtime Salamanca boost-er, who called his football mem-ories “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 desti-nation,” 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 tradi-tion 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 gradu-ates: Salamanca’s Paul Haley

and his staff; Haley’s predeces-sor, Jason Marsh; Allegany-Limestone’s Paul Furlong and Franklinville-Ellicottville’s Chad Bartoszek and Chris Mendell.

For Furlong, Salamanca foot-ball 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 phe-nomenal 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 dif-ferent school, but I know what I’m trying to take and put in a different community down the road.”

Whitmore turned the micro-phone 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 assis-tant 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 any-thing 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.”

Big 30 AwardsPlayer of the Year

Bob Nugent 1965Jeff Davis 1970Dan Dry 1977T.J. Brol 1990Dustin Ross 2001

Defensive Player of the YearArron Whitmore 1989Jason Siafakas 1999Justin Hager 2004

Coach of the YearJoe Sanfilippo 1964, 1971George Whitcher 1982, 1993Rich Morton 2001Jason Marsh 2011

Unsung Lineman of the YearJay Haley 1982Don John 1984Ray Haley 1986Chris Gillfillan 1987Jeremy John 1992

Sportsmanship Award

Team 1998

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BIG 30 ALL-STARSYear-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)

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)

Salamanca’s Big 30 honorees

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 field coach until his death in 1981. The track at Salamanca High School is also named for Foy.

Alumni return to honor centennialSalamanca football’s past, future discussed at dinner

Press photos by Sam WilsonAbove, 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.

Louis Foy

“ ”It’s just a phenomenal place that we have and a phenomenal place where we grew up.

— Paul Furlong

This story originally appeared in the May 14, 2015 edition of The Salamanca Press.

By Sam WilsonSports Editor

For all the success he enjoyed on the football field under Joe Sanfilippo, includ-ing an undefeated season, Jud Foy said his greatest memo-ries 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 mis-take 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 unde-feated seasons (1964, 1965, 1967 and 1971) and went a total record of 95-33-4. After two of his undefeated sea-sons, 1964 and 1971, he was named Big 30 coach of the year.

His Salamanca tenure included 11 championships in the then-Chautauqua-Catta-raugus Interscholastic Athletic Conference and Division VI of the Section VI Football Federation.

“He was an old-school, very basic, disciplined foot-ball coach,” Foy said. “We did not have a lot of plays in Salamanca, but what we did have, he practiced us to per-fection. 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 safe-ty 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 non-football 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 noth-ing 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 tra-ditions 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 dis-tinction 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 — disci-plined animals. We did not lack confidence and I have to say that carries down from Coach Sanfilippo because I think he was the most confi-dent 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 col-legiately 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 sea-son and took the Red Raiders’ head coaching position in 1975.

Sanfilippo’s two football coaching jobs took remark-ably 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 him-self,” said Whitcher, Sanfilippo’s Salamanca suc-cessor 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 hap-pened 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 pret-ty 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 task-master. He was a great defen-sive coach and he certainly took his players that played under him and he made sure they were in their prime phys-ical 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 170-60-7.

Both Huckno and

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-iden-tical win percentage (.734) to Sanfilippo (.735 at SHS). Huckno won three state championships.

“The program was so well-established 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 game-planning 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 down-field 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 start-ed laughing like crazy. A lot of people didn’t realize the sense of humor Joe had.”

Foy’s other favorite memo-ry 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 direc-tor 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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Whitcher, Morton recall Salamanca years

Sanfilippo, coach from 1957-1973, remembered

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 teach-ing 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 anniversa-ry of football Sept. 10.

Whitcher applied and visit-ed the school, where athletic director Louis Foy met him.

“He heard that I was com-ing and said, ‘The job is yours if you want it,’” Whitcher recalled. “I said I’ve got to talk with the superin-tendent. He says, ‘Don’t worry about the superinten-dent. I’m Louie Foy.’ And he was right. He carried that kind of clout, and so when I sat down with the superinten-dent 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.

It doesn’t seem fair.”By hiring Whitcher as an

assistant to Joe Sanfilippo, Foy had found the coach who would later replace him and win 167 games and six Section 6 championships.

Whitcher became emotion-al at the dinner remembering the support he received from the community and players he inherited when taking the head coaching position in 1974.

“I don’t know how you

can have a better community to coach in than what I had,” he said before pausing to col-lect himself. “I had good parental support, I had good community following. We used to draw 1,000 people, 1,100 people to a game. The stadium was packed and the expectations were extremely high. The parents, the com-munity itself, the expectations were extremely high. I think it made our kids better because they try to live up to

those expectations.”The retired coach, who left

Salamanca in 1998 with a .734 winning percentage, esti-mated 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 cur-rent state of high school foot-ball in Salamanca, expressing optimism for rebuilding the Warriors.

“It’s very important for our kids to regain that expectation that the community is behind them and that what they’re doing is important,” he insist-ed. “We’re perfectly capable of beating these teams if we can get the numbers and the kids who work hard during the summer. It was a great career and I owe an awful lot to this community. Thank you very much.

“I hope it comes back. There’s nothing in its prime like the red and grey.”

Whitcher’s fellow honored guest at the dinner, his suc-cessor and former assistant

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 scout-ing, 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 fraterni-ty: Paul (Furlong), Chris (Mendell), Chad (Bartoszek), our Salamanca guys.

“I still talk to a lot of the guys we coached. That’s spe-cial to have. Football will be around forever, but those friendships won’t be.”

Photo courtesy Salamanca Area Historical SocietyFrom left, Salamanca’s Bob Nugent, coach George Whitcher, John Weir, Tom Sartori and Joe Sanfilippo stand outside the school.

The press box at Salamanca’s Veterans’ Park bears the name of the Warriors’ winningest coach in program history, George Whitcher.

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Salamanca HS football, year-by-yearResults prior to 2001 courtesy

“Salamanca Football: Foundation-Tradition-Pride” writ-ten and compiled by John E. Rychcik and David E. Edstrom and published in September 2001 by RPJ Ready Print.

2014 (Jason Marsh): 3-539 Cassadaga Valley/Falconer 2613 Lackawanna 00 Maple Grove/Chautauqua Lake 4220 Southwestern 4227 Allegany-Limestone 1228 Gowanda 3616 Springville 546 Cleveland Hill* 24*=Section 6 quarterfinal

2013 (Jason Marsh): 6-212 Falconer 043 Silver Creek/Forestville 1822 Fredonia 228 Springville 720 Southwestern 1426 Allegany-Limestone 714 Gowanda 016 Lackawanna* 32*=Section 6 quarterfinal

2012 (Paul Furlong): 7-27 Springville 624 Cassadaga Valley 828 Allegany-Limestone 2046 Southwestern 4764 Gowanda 841 Falconer 87 Westfield/Brocton 621 Cleveland Hill* 2821 Allegany-Limestone** 0*=Section 6 quarterfinal**=matchup game

2011 (Jason Marsh): 6-214 Springville 2133 Falconer 1820 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 621 Southwestern 1035 Westfield/Brocton 1337 Cassadaga Valley 1328 Allegany-Limestone 62 Akron* 20*=Section 6 quarterfinal

2010 (Jason Marsh): 5-40 Fredonia 330 Southwestern 4830 Royalton-Hartland 2021 Cassadaga Valley 641 Falconer 614 Allegany-Limestone 87 Cleveland Hill 1222 Wilson (playoffs) 00 Southwestern* 37*=Section 6 quarterfinal

2009 (Jason Marsh): 3-68 Frewsburg 250 Southwestern 4131 Finney 90 Fredonia 1320 Falconer 66 Allegany-Limestone 266 Cassadaga Valley 1454 Royalton-Hartland 018 Falconer 20

2008 (Jason Marsh): 3-68 Allegany-Limestone 2318 Cassadaga Valley 00 Fredonia 3235 Falconer 220 Silver Creek 2114 Southwestern 3037 Westfield 140 Cleveland Hill* 1218 Gowanda** 27*=Section 6 quarterfinal**Consolation bowl semifinal

2007 (Jason Marsh): 6-36 Fredonia 2127 Panama 00 Falconer 2119 Gowanda 057 Royalton-Hartland 024 Allegany-Limestone 714 Cassadaga Valley 325 Silver Creek* 613 Falconer** 14*=Section 6 quarterfinal**=Section 6 semifinal

2006 (Jason Marsh): 3-60 Fredonia 77 Allegany-Limestone 108 Falconer 2332 Gowanda 1428 JFK 66 Ellicottville 120 Silver Creek 2831 Cassadaga Valley 76 Silver Creek* 27*=Section 6 semifinal

2005 (Jason Marsh): 5-58 Fredonia 06 Silver Creek 2034 Wilson 2227 Cleveland Hill 1421 Alllegany-Limestone 226 Falconer 1327 Alden 012 JFK 3322 Falconer* 618 Cleveland Hill** 48*=Consolation bowl semifinal**=Consolation bowl final

2004 (Rich Morton): 6-412 Fredonia 66 Akron 922 Gowanda 031 Allegany-Limestone 166 Falconer 1336 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 014 Portville 3725 Cassadaga Valley 031 Wilson* 1213 Cassadaga Valley** 15*=Consolation bowl semifinal**=Consolation bowl final

2003 (Rich Morton): 1-76 Fredonia 2032 Wilson 06 Gowanda 96 Cassadaga Valley 138 Falconer 366 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 914 Portville 3316 Allegany-Limestone 22

2002 (Rich Morton): 3-50 Gowanda 2136 Wilson 828 Portville 3112 Cassadaga Valley 220 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 108 Lackawanna 5220 Falconer 1212 Allegany-Limestone 6

2001 (Rich Morton): 11-156 Gowanda 734 Silver Creek 019 Portville 1858 Cleveland Hill 1416 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 1430 Cassadaga Valley 1650 Falconer 626 Allegany-Limestone 650 Cleveland Hill* 828 Eden** 728 LeRoy*** 238 Delhi**** 28*=Section 6 semifinal**=Section 6 C final***=Far West Regional****=NYS semifinal

2000 (Rich Morton): 9-138 Eden 740 Cattaraugus-Little Valley 034 Portville 840 Silver Creek 022 Gowanda 1418 Allegany-Limestone 036 Falconer 028 Cassadaga Valley 646 Eden* 032 Cleveland Hill** 34*=Section 6 semifinal**-Section 6 championship

1999 (Rich Morton): 12-129 Cheektowaga 1421 Allegany-Limestone 729 Gowanda 042 Portville 629 Falconer 022 Eden 1542 Cassadaga Valley 640 Silver Creek 640 Eden* 638 Allegany-Limestone** 1222 LeRoy*** 1316 Dehli**** 1220 Edgemont***** 32*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship***=Far West Regional****=NYS Final Four*****=NYS chamionship

1998 (George Whitcher): 9-26 Eden 832 Silver Creek 014 Falconer 1232 Allegany-Limestone 035 Cassadaga Valley 731 Portville 033 Newfane 822 Gowanda 338 Gowanda* 024 Eden** 716 LeRoy*** 28*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship***=Far West Regional

1997 (George Whitcher): 6-229 Gowanda 1520 Nichols Prep 612 Allegany-Limestone 1312 Cassadaga Valley 66 Falconer 1230 St. Mary’s 723 Portville 1414 Silver Creek 12

1996 (George Whitcher): 9-214 Eden 031 Cassadaga Valley 016 Gowanda 056 Silver Creek 020 Portville 2120 Falconer 2132 Southwestern 1414 Allegany-Limestone 812 Gowanda* 714 East Aurora** 66 LeRoy*** 20*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship***=Far West Regional

1995 (George Whitcher): 7-226 Silver Creek 029 Cassadaga Valley 010 Falconer 012 Randolph 1620 Gowanda 1455 Portville 1536 Southwestern 1441 Allegany-Limestone 8*=Section 6 semifinals

1994 (George Whitcher): 3-521 East Aurora 014 Dunkirk 220 Olean 3043 Southwestern 2812 Turner Carroll 3016 Gowanda 2513 Fredonia 70 Eden 27

1993 (George Whitcher): 8-36 East Aurora 1429 Dunkirk 026 Olean 1820 Southwestern 07 Turner Carroll 60 Gowanda 2014 Fredonia 86 Eden 012 Newfane* 612 Gowanda** 60 Caledonia-Mumford*** 27*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship***=Far West Regional

1992 (George Whitcher): 7-314 East Aurora 820 Dunkirk 616 Olean 841 Southwestern 621 Turner Carroll 128 Gowanda 140 Fredonia 1424 Eden 63 Royalton-Hartland 00 Gowanda 8*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship

1991 (George Whitcher): 8-136 East Aurora 042 Dunkirk 035 Olean 651 Southwestern 060 O’Hara 043 Gowanda 1442 Fredonia 045 Eden 66 Falconer* 12*=Section 6 semifinals

1990 (George Whitcher): 9-135 Allegany 020 Gowanda 756 Dunkirk 034 Fredonia 06 Southwestern 712 Pioneer 042 East Aurora 033 Olean 032 Cleveland Hill* 023 Wilson** 0*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship

1989 (George Whitcher): 8-222 Allegany 016 Gowanda 1235 Dunkirk 1824 Fredonia 1220 Southwestern 020 Pioneer 614 East Aurora 1547 Olean 167 Falconer 612 Cleveland Hill 14*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship

1988 (George Whitcher): 7-346 JFK 614 Fredonia 014 Southwestern 012 Gowanda 62 Pioneer 616 Olean 1422 Dunkirk 06 East Aurora 036 Silver Creek* 60 Allegany** 12*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship

1987 (George Whitcher): 9-112 JFK 622 Fredonia 826 Southwestern 029 Gowanda 1442 Pioneer 646 Olean 826 Dunkirk 026 East Aurora 029 Medina* 78 Albion** 15*=Section 6 semifinals**=Section 6 championship

1986 (George Whitcher): 7-1-143 Portville 015 Fredonia 1518 Dunkirk 08 Springville 2622 Gowanda 350 Southwestern 028 Pioneer 036 Olean 034 Starpoint* 28*=Section 6 championship

1985 (George Whitcher): 4-3-119 Portville 140 Fredonia 627 Dunkirk 00 Springville 1818 Gowanda 1214 Southwestern 146 Pioneer 2036 Olean 8

1984 (George Whitcher): 7-235 Falconer 034 Dunkirk 023 Southwestern 1221 Pioneer 640 Fredonia 07 Gowanda 66 Lackawanna 77 Olean 1220 Springville* 6*=Section 6 championship

1983 (George Whitcher): 4-534 Falconer 06 Dunkirk 1441 Southwestern 217 Pioneer 013 Fredonia 140 Gowanda 160 Lackawanna 266 Olean 3335 Wellsville 0

1982 (George Whitcher): 9-036 Eden 618 Pioneer 643 Southwestern 716 Dunkirk 1428 Fredonia 1230 Gowanda 1342 Falconer 020 Olean 020 Depew* 6

1981 (George Whitcher): 5-314 Eden 728 Pioneer 1512 Southwestern 82 Dunkirk 2812 Fredonia 1528 Gowanda 06 Falconer 014 Olean 35

1980 (George Whitcher): 4-58 Olean 2122 Gowanda 06 Springville 248 Dunkirk 156 Falconer 1315 Fredonia 613 Southwestern 012 Kane 146 Wellsvile 0

1979 (George Whitcher): 5-3-121 Olean 013 Gowanda 140 Springville 287 Dunkirk 021 Falconer 127 Fredonia 2017 Southwestern 146 Kane 631 Medina 0

1978 (George Whitcher): 7-26 Springville 1419 Olean 70 Nichols 1430 Southwestern 1218 Falconer 634 Dunkirk 1213 Fredonia 728 Gowanda 834 Medina 6

1977 (George Whitcher): 7-1-120 Springville 1216 Olean 2610 Nichols 026 Southwestern 1226 Falconer 86 Fredonia 621 Dunkirk 1450 Gowanda 2144 Lackawanna 0

1976 (George Whitcher): 7-213 Southwestern 721 Springville 2442 Fredonia 718 Pioneer 67 Lake Shore 1814 Dunkirk 628 Olean 1228 Albion 020 East Aurora 6

1975 (George Whitcher): 6-320 Southwestern 018 Fredonia 2928 Pioneer 1414 Lake Shore 167 Dunkirk 612 Olean 1414 Albion 614 East Aurora 013 Springville 6

1974 (George Whitcher): 5-2-10 East Aurora 08 Albion 67 Southwestern 627 Olean 67 Dunkirk 1915 Wellsville 140 Fredonia 208 Lake Shore 0

1973 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-1-146 Albion 60 East Aurora 616 Olean 28 Dunkirk 038 Wellsville 06 Fredonia 640 Southwestern 014 Lake Shore 12

1972 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-220 Albion 1828 Trott 86 Dunkirk 06 Wellsville 024 Fredonia 66 Southwestern 742 Falconer 80 Kane 6

1971 (Joe Sanfilippo): 8-015 Albion 1244 Trott 630 Dunkirk 1915 Wellsville 626 Fredonia 044 Southwestern 187 Falconer 039 Kane 6

1970 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-220 Albion 00 Dunkirk 2018 Wellsville 08 Fredonia 06 Southwestern 06 Falconer 06 Ridgway 1422 Kane 0

1969 (Joe Sanfilippo): 4-38 Albion 60 Falconer 80 Dunkirk 2119 Fredonia 66 Southwestern 1320 Wellsville 06 Southwestern 0

1968 (Joe Sanfilippo): 3-40 Albion 76 Falconer 06 Dunkirk 137 Harbor Creek 020 Fredonia 60 Southwestern 612 Wellsville 19

1967 (Joe Sanfilippo): 8-027 Springville 1233 Southwestern 626 Falconer 632 Dunkirk 1247 Gowanda 637 Fredonia 1945 Wellsville 633 Kane 0

1966 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-1-125 Grand Island 013 Wellsville 032 Fredonia 130 Southwestern 020 Falconer 731 Dunkirk 643 Gowanda 136 Olean 7

1965 (Joe Sanfilippo): 8-038 Wellsville 1334 Gowanda 021 Fredonia 013 Southwestern 620 Falconer 032 Dunkirk 733 Johnsonburg 014 Kane 0

1964 (Joe Sanfilippo): 7-0-137 Wellsville 1353 Dunkirk 1340 Gowanda 741 Fredonia 1433 Southwestern 70 Falconer 032 Johnsonburg 2030 Kane 0

1963 (Joe Sanfilippo): 3-513 Wellsville 712 Falconer 2021 Dunkirk 00 Gowanda 1319 Fredonia 66 Southwestern 130 Kane 266 Bishop Walsh 13

1962 (Joe Sanfilippo): 4-3-118 Kane 3226 Southwestern 054 Falconer 019 Dunkirk 190 Gowanda 626 Fredonia 1327 Dansville 70 Bishop Walsh 19

1961 (Joe Sanfilippo): 7-16 Kane 032 Fredonia 627 Southwestern 027 Falconer 1938 Dunkirk 77 Gowanda 837 Dansville 019 Bishop Walsh 0

1960 (Joe Sanfilippo): 6-212 Kane 1821 Fredonia 07 Falconer 1235 Dunkirk 713 Southwestern 632 Youngsville 1432 Bishop Walsh 040 Gowanda 26

1959 (Joe Sanfilippo): 5-214 Fredonia 126 Southwestern 219 Dunkirk 014 Gowanda 019 Youngsville 031 Falconer 137 Portville 19

1958 (Joe Sanfilippo): 7-127 Falconer 721 Fredonia 612 Southwestern 632 Eden 633 Dunkirk 612 Bolivar 1453 Gowanda 728 Randolph 6

1957 (Joe Sanfilippo): 1-60 Falconer 200 Southwestern 310 Fredonia 2014 Bolivar 137 Gowanda 330 Dunkirk 2019 Randolph 21

1956 (Harry O’Neil): 5-27 Falconer 60 Southwestern 407 Dunkirk 1332 Bolivar 632 Gowanda 1334 Randolph 013 Fredonia 12

1955 (Harry O’Neil): 1-50 Southwestern 1920 Falconer 340 Allegany 407 Bolivar 256 Fredonia 1914 Gowanda 13

1954 (Joe Dutkosky): 1-60 Southwestern 260 Falconer 140 Allegany 3519 Franklinville 614 Fredonia 390 Bolivar 266 Gowanda 40

1953 (Joe Dutkosky): 1-619 Southwestern 386 Fredonia 2913 Olean 406 Falconer 739 Westfield 06 Gowanda 386 Bolivar 27

1952 (Joe Dutkosky): 2-56 Southwestern 250 Fredonia 396 Olean 490 Falconer 739 Westfield 644 Gowanda 130 Bolivar 28

1951 (Joe Dutkosky): 2-60 Southwestern 1212 Falconer 250 Olean 256 Fredonia 4013 Gowanda 200 Bolivar 2514 Westfield 1212 Randolph 6

1950 (Clair Lankow): 4-42 Falconer 76 Gowanda 136 Olean 07 Jamestown “B” 2626 Westfield 619 Fredonia 130 Southwestern 2620 Silver Creek 19

1949 (Harold Houck): 2-60 Falconer 200 Olean 206 Gowanda 2019 Jamestown “B” 2113 Westfield 60 Southwestern 200 Fredonia 4412 Silver Creek 6

1948 (Harold Houck): 2-5-16 Falconer 70 Olean 276 Wellsville 4025 Silver Creek 187 Fredonia 4219 Jamestown “B” 1928 Gowanda 139 Westfield 13

1947 (Harold Houck): 3-46 Silver Creek 1313 Olean 326 Gowanda 1421 Westfield 146 Fredonia 713 Jamestown “B” 013 Falconer 0

1946 (Harold Houck): 5-27 Falconer 627 Olean 190 East Aurora 1226 Gowanda 720 Allegany 741 Dunkirk 012 Wellsville 20

1945 (Harold Houck): 2-40 Olean 250 Jamestown “B” 187 Falconer 389 Dunkirk 136 Gowanda 038 Allegany 7

1942-44: No interscholastic football, World War II

1941 (Harold Houck): 5-1-16 Gowanda 025 Wellsville 260 Olean 06 Dunkirk 027 Jamestown “B” 612 Falconer 719 Fredonia 0

1940 (Harold Houck): 5-27 Gowanda 1828 Wellsville 713 Olean 3719 Falconer 626 Fredonia 021 Dunkirk 019 Jamestown “B” 7

1939 (Harold Houck): 2-4-14 Gowanda 612 Bradford 380 Olean 120 Falconer 012 Fredonia 612 Jamestown “B” 1912 Dunkirk 0

1938 (Harold Houck): 2-3-10 Dunkirk 260 Bradford 200 Olean 713 Falconer 70 Fredonia 037 Jamestown “B” 0

1937 (Harold Houck): 5-30 Dunkirk 1213 Bradford 018 Olean 00 Falconer 60 Fredonia 613 St. Bernard’s 67 Kane 039 Lakewood 2

1936 (Harold Houck): 4-3-126 St. Bernard’s 012 Dunkirk 1312 Bradford 287 Olean 1319 Falconer 00 Lakewood 020 Kane 039 Allegany 0

1935 (Harold Houck): 3-3-10 Dunkirk 260 Allegany 06 St. Bernard’s 02 Olean 126 Falconer 013 Lakewood 06 Kane 25

1934 (Harold Houck): 4-3-10 Lakewood 012 Allegany 06 Bradford 266 Olean 1219 Hamburg 619 St. Bernard’s 232 Gowanda 02 Kane 19

1933 (Thomas Moore): 7-28 Silver Creek 00 Olean 70 Bradford 2633 Jamestown “B” 631 Portville 66 Ellicottville 059 Little Valley 026 Kane 622 Gowanda 0

1932 (Thomas Moore): 2-60 Jamestown “B” 1239 Silver Creek 07 Lakewood 123 Gowanda 07 Warren 470 Wellsville 126 Little Valley 127 Olean 51

1931 (Thomas Moore): 4-4-118 St. Bernard’s 00 Bradford 00 Wellsville 712 Gowanda 60 Warren 2619 Little Valley 180 Olean 624 Fredonia 66 Gowanda 7

1930 (Thomas Moore): 5-2-10 Dunkirk 197 Wellsville 012 Alfred Frosh 044 St. Bernard’s 025 Warren 1399 Westfield 019 Olean 196 Fredonia 20

1929 (Thomas Moore): 6-1-220 Celeron 012 Olean 014 Allegany 739 St. Bernard’s 013 Alfred Frosh 120 Westfield 87 Bradford 713 Gowanda 0ccd. Fredonia0 Wellsville 0

1928 (Thomas Moore): 4-638 Little Valley 00 Warren 260 Jamestown “B” 4512 Gowanda 07 Bradford 06 Olean 1221 Alfred Frosh 00 Port Allegany 120 Allegany 206 Fredonia 10

1927 (Thomas Moore): 6-224 Falconer 68 Bradford 2618 Allegany 024 Little Valley 219 Cuba 70 Olean 1219 Springville 027 Lakewood 6

1926 (Thomas Moore): 4-20 Springville 60 Port Allegany 676 Falconer 02 Salamanca Alumni 06 Allegany 020 Bolivar 0

1925: High school football not fielded

1924 (Rowland ‘Pop’ Grey): 2-325 Bradford 60 Gowanda 620 Bolivar 00 Olean 446 Hornell 41

1923 (Rowland ‘Pop’ Grey): 5-43 Gowanda 07 Bradford 3220 St. Bernard’s 00 Portville 380 Springville 1512 St. Bonaventure Prep. 018 Gowanda 026 Cuba 70 Wellsville 13

1922 (Schoenenberg & Ben Newton): 3-66 Bradford 130 Cuba 266 Cuba 130 Bradford 316 South Dayton 2420 Portville 620 Bolivar 018 Gowanda 00 Ridgway 24

1921(Krieger): 4-46 Cuba 06 Salamanca Alumni 727 St. Bernard’s 00 Olean 6225 Gowanda 626 Gowanda 60 Cuba 70 St. Bonaventure Prep. 19

1920 (Fish): 2-275 St. Bernard’s 00 Wellsville 6639 Randolph 70 South Dayton 26

Results from 1915-1919 unavailable