New Philadelphia runner Kylie Smith fueled by family tradition<\/a><\/p>\nNew Philadelphia vs Dover is third oldest rivalry in Ohio<\/p>\n
Friday marks the 122nd all-time meeting between the Crimson Tornadoes and Quakers in a series that dates back to 1896. For perspective, Grover Cleveland was in his final months as President in 1896 and was about to be replaced by William McKinley, who had become president-elect after the Nov. 3 election that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dover-New Philadelphia football series is the third oldest football rivalry in Ohio behind only Massillon and McKinley (which began in 1894) and Fremont Ross and Sandusky (which started in 1895). Dover leads the series, 59-53-9, but New Philadelphia won last year\u2019s game 42-24 at Woody Hayes Quaker Stadium.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bragging rights mean everything<\/p>\n
For the first time in 23 years \u2014 the 2002 season to be exact \u2014 the Crimson Tornadoes and Quakers won\u2019t be clashing with a playoff spot on the line. But ask any Dover or New Philadelphia fan and they\u2019ll tell you bragging rights over their archrival for the next year trumps everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is (game) 122 (in the series) coming up, which is remarkable,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThe pageantry that goes with it. Everybody has a spirit week, but a lot of times people don\u2019t have a spirit week where you\u2019ve been playing for the last 120-plus years, so I think there\u2019s a little extra in it because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used to bring some of our buddies from college (at Mount Union) home for this game and they couldn\u2019t believe the atmosphere that we were able to play in,\u201d said Dover\u2019s Rees. \u201cI try to emphasize to our seniors that you have something that many other schools do not have and that\u2019s not just in Ohio, but many states.\u201d<\/p>\n
The series is deadlocked at 5-5 over the past decade<\/p>\n
For a good indication of just how competitive this series has been of late, all one has to do is take a look at their games for the past decade. In the last 10 meetings, the Crimson Tornadoes have won five games and the Quakers have captured five. The home team has won the past six straight meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you come into this game it\u2019s played with emotion,\u201d said Rees. \u201cLooking at the last 10 years, really what it came down to is the execution piece, and both teams need to execute, play with passion and play aggressively.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt (the series) has been back and forth and truly a game of inches,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n
A leadup to the game<\/p>\n
Dover (3-6) has been banged up all season and has had to make multiple personnel adjustments on the fly. The Tornadoes are coming off a 35-27 loss to Linsly (Wva.) last Friday in a road game played at Fairmont State.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Tornadoes enter Week 10 scoring 21.7 points-per-game and giving up 26.5 ppg.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, New Philadelphia (5-4), which has won three of its past four games, recorded one of its best wins of the season last Friday when the Quakers upended West Holmes 26-21 at Woody Hayes Quaker Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to get that momentum (from the win over West Holmes),\u201d said Johnson. \u201cOur kids played tremendously.”<\/p>\n
The Quakers\u2019 5-4 record is somewhat deceiving, as their losses have come to four teams in Louisville (5-4), West Branch (8-1), Ashland (9-0) and Lexington (8-1) with a combined record of 30-6.<\/p>\n
The Quakers are averaging 26.3 points-per-game on offense and allowing 22.7 ppg.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coaches break down their opponent<\/p>\n
Dover\u2019s offense is led by sophomore signal-caller Dieter Weber, who has thrown for 1,300 yards in six starts with 12 touchdown passes. Senior Robbie Copple has been one of his top receiving targets with 618 yards and three scores, and senior receiver Liam Mast has six scoring receptions. Dover\u2019s leading rusher is sophomore Cohen Murray.<\/p>\n
Johnson is impressed with talented sophomore slotback\/receiver Dante Clark.<\/p>\n
\u201cClark has been very impressive,\u201d said the Quakers\u2019 boss. \u201cHe played for them last year as a freshman and he\u2019s gotten better. He\u2019s fast and he\u2019s aggressive and he makes you look silly sometimes with the way he attacks things, whether it\u2019s him running the ball or catching the ball. He\u2019s one of those guys you watch on film and say, man, we\u2019ve got to do something with him, and I think the quarterback (Weber) has done a really nice job in delivering the ball. He spreads it out to a lot of different people, so we\u2019re going to have to be on our best against him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Tornadoes\u2019 defense is led by linebacker Carson McGarry with a team-high 86 tackles.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Quakers are led offensively by junior quarterback Parker Rieger, who has passed for 1,259 yards and 13 touchdowns, and lightning-fast senior receiver CJ Carlisle, his top receiving target, who has 41 receptions for 587 yards and seven touchdowns. Carlisle, who is also a dangerous kick returner, scored several touchdowns in last year\u2019s Dover-New Philadelphia game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a special player,\u201d said Rees of Carlisle. \u201cI think he\u2019s probably the fastest kid in the county. He\u2019s one if he gets open grass, he\u2019s going to create separation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Quakers\u2019 top rusher is junior Kolston Fox with 495 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n
New Philadelphia\u2019s defense is paced by linebackers Vincent Migoni (a senior with 128 tackles) and Caleb Crowthers (a junior with 100 stops).<\/p>\n
Final thoughts<\/p>\n
Both coaches can\u2019t wait for Friday\u2019s game in which another standing room only crowd is expected at the Brick House. Temporary extra bleachers from Dover and New Philadelphia were put in place Monday at 5,043-seat Crater Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re lucky to be a part of it and our kids are excited to finish out this year and have a great game,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be my 11th year coaching in this game,\u201d Rees said. \u201cIt\u2019s an exciting experience for everyone. The staff and players are looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First time since 2002 that Tornadoes, Quakers aren’t meeting with a playoff spot on the line Mike Brown…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,8015,8019,9858,2605,1318,17353,48218,13765,8119,50,1573,30499,450,1457,1448,2830,1311,1451,161683,161684,11645,62,1458,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-323826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-association","12":"tag-athletic","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-high","15":"tag-johnson","16":"tag-mike","17":"tag-mike-johnson","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-ohio","20":"tag-ohio-high-school-athletic-association","21":"tag-overall","22":"tag-overall-positive","23":"tag-pa","24":"tag-pennsylvania","25":"tag-philadelphia","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-quakers","28":"tag-sandusky","29":"tag-school","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-news","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-united-states-of-america","34":"tag-unitedstates","35":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","36":"tag-us","37":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115417857854375852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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