Football

The Erie football team is blinged up for sure this season, but there is a certain piece of jewelry that eluded it last year that is in focus.

Through the first 12 weeks of its 2021 season, Limon football was untouchable. That, of course, was par for the course for a program that has won the most state football championships in Colorado history at 20.

Fort Morgan football put together a nearly perfect season in 2021, one that ended with the Mustangs hoisting the Class 3A state championship trophy with one final win over Mead. 

Change is in the air for one of Colorado’s premier high school football teams this fall.

The recent run by the Cherry Creek Bruins has solidified them as one of the top football programs in the state. Over the last three years, the team has gone 35-2 and won all three state titles in Class 5A, moving them to a tie for second-most by a program in high school football in Colorado.

DENVER — The only constant in life is change.

LITTLETON — The words on the newly installed football and lacrosse scoreboard at Dakota Ridge High School just begins to describe Mary Beth Price — Wife, Mother, Daughter, Friend and Community Leader.

American Youth Football, Inc. (AYF), a national youth partner of the National Football League, will require all coaches on its regional/national track (more than 50,000) to take the new, free “Football Tackling” course introduced on the NFHS Learning Center last month. 

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (February 17, 2022) – A new rules exception that allows a passer to intentionally throw an incomplete forward pass for the purpose of conserving yardage, and the redefining of the term “chop block” – both of which are intended to minimize risk of injury – are the two most notable rules changes coming to high school football for the 2022 season.

Rob Royer is returning as the football coach at Rampart High School. Royer led the program from 2014-19 and won two league titles.