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Home of the Longmeadow Knights
Practice Time Change:
Starting Wed., Sept 3rd practice times will be 5:45 - 7:30
Please let your head coach know if there are any issues
with the game pants/girdles. Coach Gerweck will be in the parking lot with extras of each this week. Additional girdles
and belts are expected shortly: see Coach Gerweck later this week if you need a black belt or girdle size that was out of
stock.
The varsity schedule has been posted on the calendar.
This may be subject to change: please check this website and the team websites for updates. The JV schedules will be posted
on the team websites as soon as they are available.
Save our jerseys! Please do not machine
dry the game jerseys.
The Suburban Amateur Football League has its own website: www.suburbanfootball.com/
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Questions? Interested
in helping the program? Call Bob Ostrander (567-7266) or Tom Gerweck (567-8244)
The LYFA would like to thank Donna
Novak for her years of service to the program, and welcomes Jeanne Rye as registrar.
We would like to thank Bill McCormick for his voluntary efforts in improving the high school game field and the practice field, RFL Electric for the installation of timers on the practice field lights as well as lights
on the Pee Wee practice field, and Agnoli Signs for our registration signs.
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The LYFA is not only your favorite youth sports program, it's also a charitable organization
(legally filed with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 501(C3). Your contributions and donations are tax deductible,
but please consult a tax advisor about this.
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Fans see pumped fists and bumping chests during the game itself, and think football
is an event of brute conflict. Obviously, that's a factor. But before the game are extraordinary periods of cooperative work.
There's perhaps 1,000 hours of preparation for each hour of play, and almost all the preparation must be done jointly. Football
players and coaches spend more hours together, in complex social settings, than the players and coaches of any other sport.
The ability to get along with others is more important to football than to any sport. Some star basketball players barely
speak to their teammates. In football, even the most renowned star must be a good teammate and must interact constructively
with everyone in the locker room down to the lowliest player, or the game simply cannot be won. There's a reason towns view
the success of their high school football teams, and cities view the success of their NFL teams, as symbolizing the town's
and cities' prospects – because football cannot happen unless large numbers of people get along. And we're entering
a world in which it will matter more than ever that large numbers of people get along. Football teaches that very thing.
- Gregg Easterbrook ("The Tuesday Morning Quarterback")
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