By Michael Letendre Once again, the excitement continues to build this month as the return of scholastic football is less than a week away. Yesterday in TBE, we looked at Bristol’s…
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By Michael Letendre It’s August and that means scholastic football is right around the corner. And the public schools in Bristol are looking forward to the challenge. Bristol Central is…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – At the completion of the Battle for the Bell on Thanksgiving, the Bristol Eastern football program had a new rushing leader. And it took an…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – You know what was of the best part of the most recent Battle for the bell from Muzzy Field on Thanksgiving was? The answer some…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – There’s not a team around that can slow down Bristol Central’s Victor Rosa on the football field. That’s just a fact of life but the…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The return of the annual Battle for the Bell saw Bristol Central’s Victor Rosa score three touchdowns as the Rams won its ninth straight game,…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The Bristol Eastern football team is desperately looking to finish the season at .500 and how sweet would it be to get to 5-5 with…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The Bristol Central football team has been on the cusp of state tournament qualification under the guidance of head coach Jeff Papazian several times now….
By Michael Letendre Records are made to be broken. And that’s especially true when it comes to Thanksgiving Day football from Muzzy Field – pitting Bristol Central against Bristol Eastern….
By Michael Letendre It’s always fun to look back at past Thanksgiving Day battles between Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern as a ton of talented individuals have stormed Muzzy Field…
By Michael Letendre The scholastic football decade of the 2010’s started off with the program from Bristol Eastern winning several times on Thanksgiving. But about halfway through the decade, Bristol…
By Michael Letendre The Bristol Central football team was a successful operation over the first six years of the 2000s against crosstown rival Bristol Eastern. But once Timmy Washington and…
By Michael Letendre The 1990s didn’t start in the grandest fashion for the Bristol Eastern football team in terms of its rivalry against Bristol Central on Thanksgiving. But the play…
By Michael Letendre Who won more of the Thanksgiving Day games between the football programs between Bristol Central and Bristol Eastern in the decade of the 1980s? You’ve got a…
Editor’s note- In a series that covers the Thanksgiving Day football battle between Central and Eastern, Mike Letendre will cover the rivalry one decade at a time. By Michael Letendre…
Editor’s note- In a series that covers the Thanksgiving Day football battle between Central and Eastern, Mike Letendre will cover the rivalry one decade at a time. By Michael Letendre…
By Michael Letendre In 1988, the Bristol Eastern football program won the Class MM Championship, defeating South Windsor by a 22-19 final to win the only Bristol public school gridiron…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – The Bristol Eastern football program is looking for a .500 finish to its campaign in 2021 and step one of that process was attempting to…
By Michael Letendre BRISTOL – It’s Week 10 of the Connecticut scholastic football slate and Bristol Central is looking to knock its opponent out of the postseason picture on Friday….
By Michael Letendre BLOOMFIELD – The Bristol Eastern football squad certainly frustrated Bloomfield on Friday night in a CCC Tier 3 tilt and while the Warhawks took the contest by…