Football

If you’ve noticed a freshmen playing on an Interscholastic League of Honolulu football team, your eyes are not deceiving you. A rule passed in the offseason allows freshmen to play in league games for the first time, according to ILH assistant executive director Georges Gilbert. “Similar to the sport of varsity wrestling, the ILH allows freshmen to participate on the varsity level of football provided a waiver form is submitted by the member school to the league office,” Gilbert wrote […]

The Oahu Interscholastic Association usually plays its Division I football championship on the last weekend in October and sends its teams to the state tournament that runs the first three weekends of November. But not this year, according to the schedule posted on the league website. There is a change due to the new state tournament format now in effect. This year, the state Division I-Open (top tier) tournament runs only two weekends instead of three (semifinals Nov. 10 and […]

Noah Williams, a 6-foot-1, 290-pound offensive lineman from Mililani, has been invited to the 2018 Polynesian Bowl. Williams, a third-team All-State selection as a junior, has paved the way to an 8-0 record entering the playoffs for the Trojans, who are tied with Kahuku for No. 2 in the latest Honolulu Star-Advertiser Football Top 10. Mililani, the defending Division I state champion, is averaging nearly 390 total yards per game and owns the longest winning streak in the state at […]

The next two invites to the 2018 Polynesian Bowl will be announced today at Noon at Hawaii Prep World and tonight at 9:30 p.m. on Cover2: Hawaii High School Football Weekly on KHON2. Currently, 16 players from Hawaii have been invited to play in the annual high school football all-star game for seniors only. The 2018 game will be played Saturday, Jan. 20, at Aloha Stadium. Roughly 10-14 more players from Hawaii will be selected to join the 90 or […]