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20 years of covering the Reitz Football Tradition: Part 1

In the early days of the website, Mike Whicker was gracious enough to write this piece on the tradition of Reitz Football. Not sure why I had taken it off in the first place, as it’s a great read. I’ll be revising it soon but wanted to post this to give you an idea of some …

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Welcome to our 20th year of covering Reitz Football!

We have reached quite a milestone! We have been covering the Reitz Football Tradition since 1996, so this is our 20th anniversary! We’ve got some exciting things in store, so we’ve moved from the free self-hosted wordpress.com to Hostgator, which will allow us do some awesome customization! FYI – links on the site will no longer …

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Former Panther coach John Hart returning to Indiana

Former Reitz head coach John Hart will return to Indiana this fall, it was announced this week. Hart is the new head coach at Brownsburg High School, a 6A football team in the Indianapolis area. Hart coached the Panthers from 2001 to 2007. He was at Warren Central from 2008 to 2011 then Huntley (Ill.) for the last four …

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Most Offensive Team in Reitz Football history is 2003

The most offensive team in Reitz Football history was not a state champion. They didn’t even win semi-state. Or regional, for that matter. But that’s part of what makes 2003 so fantastic. They scored an average of 45.31 points, almost more than four more per game than any other Panther team in school history, AND …

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581 points in 14 games make 2010 No. 2 Most Offensive Team in Reitz Football History

Often overshadowed by the 2007 and 2009 state championship teams, the 2010 Panthers had an incredible run that cannot be ignored. They scored 581 points in 14 games to average 41.5 points per game. The Panthers won city and SIAC championships and finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in every poll. Reitz went on to …

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Player of the Year vote ends in tie; Ashworth, Brown declared co-winners

The Reitz Nation has spoken! We asked you to select who you thought was the Player of the Year, and, incredibly, the vote has ended in a tie! Brock Ashworth and Will Brown both received 20 votes to earn 21.5% of the vote. Your webmaster had not yet voted, but, as he was about to …

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Dunham, Ringo named AP all-state; four more honorable mention

Elijah Dunham and Kerrion Ringo were named to the Associated Press’ Indiana high school football All-State first team, it was announced today. Four more Panthers, Will Brown (DB), Tristen Clark (TE), Evan Deig (QB) and Isaac Flowers (DB), were named honorable mention by the AP. Congratulations to these Mighty Panthers and the rest of the team on …

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Vote for the ReitzFootball.com 2015 Player of the Year

ReitzFootball.com is pleased to announce the voting for the MyPantherTees.com Player of the Year is now online! The initial voting was taken down shortly after it went live due to a little controversy. However, one of the coaches suggested we determine the finalists using those honored on the 2015 Team Awards (the team MVP’s and position players of the …

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2015 team awards announced at Award Ceremony

The Reitz Football team announced the 2015 Team Awards at Sunday’s awards ceremony. For clarification, the winners in each category were not selected by ReitzFootball.com,  but instead were determined by the players themselves and their coaches. Team Most Valuable Player Will Brown Offensive Most Valuable Player Evan Deig Defensive Most Valuable Player Aaron Euler Special Teams Most Valuable Player Caleb Moll …

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Brown, Dunham, Ringo named IFCA all-state

Three Panthers will see their names added to the all-state players section on ReitzFootball.com as Will Brown, Elijah Dunham and Kerrion Ringo were named to the Indiana Football Coaches Association’s 2015 all-state team. Brown was a defensive back while Ringo was a wide receiver on the IFCA Class 4A Senior Team. Dunham was a defensive back on the Junior …

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