The 24th Annual Lezzer Lumber Football Classic sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association
\nwill be held on Friday, June 20, 2008. The game will be played at the Clearfield High School Bison Sports Complex at 7 p.m.
\nThe Game Sponsor is once again Lezzer Lumber Building Supplies, along with co-sponsors Centre Daily Times and\u00a0 J J Powell, Inc \/ Snappys.
\nThe Classic will feature 87 players from nine counties and 29 high schools, highlighting the player and coach talent from the Central Region.
\nThe Central Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association will again award\u00a0 $5,000 in scholarship (10 – $500.00 scholarships \u2013 which will bring the CPFCA\u2019s total scholarship monies over the years to $88,000\u00a0 in 24 years.
\nThe North Head Coach for the 2008 Classic will be Jeff Vroman from Philipsburg-Osceola, and the South Head Coach will be J Gawen Stoker from Indian Valley. The Game Director is Jack Bailey.
\nThe North\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0will practice at Philipsburg-Osceola High School, while the South will hold their pratice sessions at Tyrone High School.
\nLOcal players who were selected to play in the Lezer Lumber Classic inckude Josh Bradley, Johnny Franco, Brandon Gehret and Shayne Tate from Tyrone and Bruno DeGol, Brandon Hunphreys, Anthony Jenkins, Justin Miller and Alan Wertz from Bellwood-Antis.
\nIndividuals to be Honored at Halftime weill be North Coach of the Year\u00a0 –\u00a0 Jeff Vroman, Philipsburg-Osceola; South Coach of the Year\u00a0 –\u00a0 J Gawen Stoker, Indian Valley; plus 1998 Player Profile North\u00a0 –\u00a0 Larry Johnson, State College\/Penn State\/NFL; 1998 Player Profile South\u00a0 –\u00a0 Josh Geis, Altoona\/Edinboro\/US Army Ranger; 2008 South CPFCA Hall of Fame \u2013 Jeff Lingenfelter, Claysburg-Kimmel; and 2008 South CPFCA Hall of Fame \u2013 Rick Hatch, Tyrone\/Bishop Guilfoyle
\nGame Program Highlights will include pictures \/captions of three former Classic and Big 33 players currently in the NFL:
\n1998\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Larry Johnson, State College \/Penn State \/Kansas City Chiefs
\n2000\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jon Condo, Philipsburg-Osceola \/Maryland\/Oakland Raiders
\n2001\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robbie Gould, Central Mountain \/Penn State \/Chicago Bears
\nTickets available \u2013 Pre sale Tickets available at $5.00 per ticket from Head Coaches of any of the member schools, Lezzer Lumber stores located in Curwensville and State College, and Jim\u2019s Sports Center in Clearfield. Tickets for adults and students\u00a0 will be $6.00 at the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 24th Annual Lezzer Lumber Football Classic sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Football Coaches Association will be held on Friday, June 20, 2008. The game will be played at the Clearfield High School Bison Sports Complex at 7 p.m. The Game Sponsor is once again Lezzer Lumber Building Supplies, along with co-sponsors Centre Daily Times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}