The Acalanes JV football team was planning to play one quarter against the Oakland Varsity team on Friday. If that had been the case, the team would have only played one full game and a total of 50 minutes of football over 50,400 total minutes from the end of the Bishop O’Dowd game on September 2 until kickoff against Las…
Trees have featured prominently in sports. There are college football tree-themed programs such as THE Ohio State Buckeyes, the state tree of Ohio. There are official mascots such as the Copper Mountain College Fighting Cacti and a notable unofficial mascot, the Stanford Tree. There are athletes including Tree Rollins, the 7’1” center who played 18 seasons in the NBA, Robert…
At some point this season, it was inevitable that a football movie-themed article would be needed. Given the religious affiliation of the Don’s opponent, Bishop O’ Dowd, I figured this was the perfect time to reference arguably the most famous football movie of all time, “The Waterboy” starring Adam Sandler. Oops, scratch that. I meant to say “Rudy”, the movie…
On a day when Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell’s comments in Jackson Hole sent the stock market tumbling, costly turnovers sent the Acalanes Dons JV football team tumbling in their 2022 season home opener against San Marin, falling by a final score of 21-7 after digging an early 21-point hole with a few minutes left in the first quarter. Most…
The Acalanes Dons JV football team kicked off their 2022 pre-season on Saturday. The team was scheduled to scrimmage multiple teams in the football equivalent of speed dating, but the contest turned into a one-on-one matchup after Vallejo backed out. The teams that remained, Acalanes and Granada, represented a rematch 10 months in the making, as the Freshman Dons suffered…
Little by little, an increasing number of girls in the USA are breaking through invisible barriers of perhaps the most traditionally male-dominated sport, football. In assuming key roles kicking for their school’s football team, they’re blazing trails for the young women behind them. In 1997, Christal Cook was the first girl to play on her high school’s football team. She was…
Welcome to the Acalanes Dons Boosters Articles for JV football! I wish I could say that I volunteered to do these write ups, but the truth is that Jane Smith “volun-told” me that I was doing this job despite the objections of many who suffered through reading my Freshman Baseball Articles this past Spring. As part of the role, Jane asked…
The Acalanes athletic community is fortunate to have Bill Fraser coaching and mentoring so many of our student-athletes. Bill’s extensive volunteer work across the community for many years led the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce to recently honor him as Co-Citizen of the Year. As the city’s official proclamation declared, “Bill Fraser, through his coaching, creates community on and off the…
The JV Dons Football Team took on the Alhambra Bulldogs on Friday night and had an almost perfect game! There was some sort of transportation snafu with the Bulldogs bus, and they arrived 2 hours after they were supposed to be there, probably could have walked there in the amount of time we waited for them! After the JV team…
The JV and Freshman Football Don’s took on Miramonte Frosh / Soph Team in Orinda on Friday Night – It is a testament to the strength of the Acalanes Football program when you can physically see just how any kids are in our program… vs. seeing a list of names on a roster – The Dons suited up around 75…