Football

Punahou is going back to the Honor Bowl Football Showcase this fall. The Buffanblu will play against Junipero Serra High, a Roman Catholic private school in Gardena, Calif., as part of a tripleheader Sept. 2 on the campus of Cathedral Catholic in San Diego. The Honor Bowl is a five-game, two-day affair that starts Sept. 1. The 10 participating teams are from four states — California, Arizona, Florida and Hawaii. IMG Academy, the top-ranked team from Florida that finished last season […]

Hawaii’s three-tier football state tournament is likely to be kept for 2017 and beyond after being run on a pilot basis for 2016. The Hawaii High School Athletic Association’s football committee has met twice this offseason to discuss ways to improve what turned out to be a successful pilot season in which Saint Louis, Mililani and Lahainaluna won the Open, Division I and D-II championships. “The committee is discussing the size of the tournament divisions, the seeding formula and declarations […]

Former Radford football head coach Fred Salanoa is the new offensive coordinator and tight ends coach at his alma mater, Eastern Washington, he told Hawaii Prep World today. Salanoa most recently was an assistant under Kale Ane at Punahou. He was the head coach at Radford from 2003 to 2015, finishing that stint with a Division II state title. Salanoa is also a former standout quarterback at Radford and Eastern Washington (1999-2001).

Sorry quarterbacks out there, but you’re not quite as protected as it seemed. Many eyebrows were raised when the NFHS put out a press release last week regarding new rule changes for the 2017 football season. In the release, the rules committee expanded on the rule regarding what is considered a defenseless player by adding specific examples. The first one, which read, “a) A player in the act of or just after throwing a pass,” caught a lot of people […]

HHSAA Football Officials Coordinator clears up rule changes New rules for high school football recommended by the NFHS Football Rules Committee in January were approved last week and have been put in place for the 2017 season. An onside kick in which the kicker tries to drive the ball into the ground to pop back up into the air has been eliminated. Such kicks will be penalized as a 5-yard penalty with possession of the ball going to the return […]