Marc Wilson

Bok has made a habit of running up big scores and blowing away opponents. After posting 31 points per game last season, Bok entered its Public League football showdown against Imhotep Charter on Friday averaging 43.5 points in two wins this year. And though the Wildcats won comfortably, 24-6, at Benjamin L. Johnston Memorial Stadium in Germantown, it was an active and harassing defensive effort that spurred the victory. Imhotep, which snapped Bok's 43-game, regular-season Pub winning streak last Sept.

(Players are seniors unless noted) FIRST TEAM Offense Linemen - Dwight "D.J. " Patterson, King; Nate Gibson, Overbrook; Lawrence Pitchford, Dobbins; Roger Millhouse, Northeast, jr.; Robert Whitmire, Olney. Receivers - Kenyatta Carter, Olney, jr.; Germal Williams, Dobbins; William "Boo" Minor, Frankford. Quarterback - Kenny Pickron, Dobbins. Running backs - James "Noot" Smith, Gratz; Jamie Calloway, Franklin, jr. Multipurpose - Shawn Singletary, West Phila.

The Los Angeles Raiders, who had their worst record in a quarter-century this season, have called a news conference for today to make a "significant announcement. " ESPN, the cable sports network, reported that coach Tom Flores will announce his resignation. No source for that information was given. Raiders owner Al Davis, reached later, would neither confirm nor deny the report. He also refused to divulge what the upcoming announcement concerns. There has been speculation that the Raiders, who finished 5-10 this season for their worst showing since Davis first joined the team as coach and general manager in 1963, might make a coaching change.

A season ago, Chris Lewis could do it all for Imhotep Charter. He was an efficient and confident passer, comfortable in the shotgun and under center. He was a powerful yet quick runner, often extending plays with his legs while routinely keeping the football himself for solid gains. So when the three-year starter graduated, Panthers coach Marc Wilson was faced with the type of decision that would define this season, if not the next several seasons. On one hand, Wilson could tab senior Jamal Johnson.

If quarterback is the most important position in football, Friday's game between Communications Tech and Imhotep Charter proved just how essential it is to have experience under center. On a windy and overcast afternoon, Imhotep lined up three-year starter Christopher Lewis at quarterback. Tech ran out sophomore Zaki Jamison. Lewis threw for 149 yards and two touchdowns. Jamison completed three passes, tossed an interception, and fumbled twice. And Imhotep won the Public League game, 40-7, at Benjamin L. Johnston Field in Germantown.

Bok has made a habit of running up big scores and blowing away opponents. After posting 31 points per game last season, Bok entered its Public League football showdown against Imhotep on Friday averaging 43.5 points in two wins this year. And though the Wildcats won comfortably, 24-6, at Benjamin L. Johnston Memorial Stadium in Germantown, it was an active and harassing defensive effort that spurred the victory. Imhotep, which snapped Bok's 43-game regular-season Pub winning streak last Sept.

John Elway is used to throwing passes. Last year he threw 605 of them, the most in the 26-season history of the Denver Broncos. What Elway isn't used to is catching passes. "That's the first time I've ever caught the ball, even in high school," Elway said after his 23-yard touchdown reception from running back Steve Sewell helped the host Broncos to a 38-36, come-from-behind victory over the Los Angeles Raiders yesterday in Mile High Stadium. But it was a more conventional touchdown pass involving Elway that enabled the Broncos to knock off the defending AFC West champion Raiders in a game that paired two prime contenders for a berth in Super Bowl XXI. Denver, trailing 36-31, moved ahead to stay when Elway found running back Gene Lang on a 7-yard scoring pass with 9:49 remaining in the fourth quarter.

The Los Angeles Raiders are working on a deal with Green Bay that could facilitate their signing of former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski, sources with the Raiders said yesterday. According to the sources, the Raiders are seeking to trade quarterback Marc Wilson to the Packers. Jaworski will be in Los Angeles tomorrow through Sunday, attending the NFL Players Association convention there. Asked whether he would be talking to the Raiders while he was in Los Angeles, Jaworski said: "I'd prefer not to comment on it. These deals with teams are sensitive.

Always a step ahead and never out of control, Germantown senior quarterback Spencer Whetts goes about his business on the football field with little fanfare. There is no showboating, no finger-pointing, no hysterics. There is only the calm that comes from quiet confidence. "He's not a big talker," head coach Charlie Hicks pointed out. "He's a yes-no guy, very unassuming. " And yet Whetts, with an exemplary work ethic that has turned him into perhaps the most dangerous quarterback in the city, is the undisputed team leader.

Pro football scouts still talk about 1983 as the year of the quarterback. Six of them - John Elway, Jim Kelly, Todd Blackledge, Tony Eason, Ken O'Brien and Dan Marino - were selected in the first round of the NFL draft that year. But the '83 bumper crop of rookie quarterbacks is rivaled by the class of '71, when Jim Plunkett, Archie Manning, Dan Pastorini, Ken Anderson and Lynn Dickey all entered the NFL. Anderson is a backup with Cincinnati now, and Pastorini, Manning and Dickey have retired.

Chris Crowley says there will be feelings of withdrawal, but he felt it was the best decision for his Woodrow Wilson football program. Additional schooling intersected with the year-round, madcap pace of coaching, so Crowley had to give one up, and to his regret, coaching didn't win out. Crowley recently resigned after four successful seasons in which he helped revive a once-proud program at Wilson. "I am finishing up on some supervisory certifications, and coaching a varsity sport these days is a year-round effort, and I didn't think it was fair not to give everything I have given in the past to the football program, so I feel somebody else should coach," Crowley said.

The progress that Woodrow Wilson's football program has made is measured by this: It is no longer good enough to just qualify for the playoffs. The Tigers have been there, done that, in each of the previous three seasons. Once they arrived, the postseason wasn't the most pleasant of experiences. After three consecutive first-round ousters, all by lopsided scores, fourth-seeded Woodrow Wilson changed its fortune in a big way with Saturday's 39-0 victory over fifth-seeded and visiting Central Regional in an opening-round South Jersey Group 3 playoff game.

Bok has made a habit of running up big scores and blowing away opponents. After posting 31 points per game last season, Bok entered its Public League football showdown against Imhotep Charter on Friday averaging 43.5 points in two wins this year. And though the Wildcats won comfortably, 24-6, at Benjamin L. Johnston Memorial Stadium in Germantown, it was an active and harassing defensive effort that spurred the victory. Imhotep, which snapped Bok's 43-game, regular-season Pub winning streak last Sept.

Bok has made a habit of running up big scores and blowing away opponents. After posting 31 points per game last season, Bok entered its Public League football showdown against Imhotep on Friday averaging 43.5 points in two wins this year. And though the Wildcats won comfortably, 24-6, at Benjamin L. Johnston Memorial Stadium in Germantown, it was an active and harassing defensive effort that spurred the victory. Imhotep, which snapped Bok's 43-game regular-season Pub winning streak last Sept.

A season ago, Chris Lewis could do it all for Imhotep Charter. He was an efficient and confident passer, comfortable in the shotgun and under center. He was a powerful yet quick runner, often extending plays with his legs while routinely keeping the football himself for solid gains. So when the three-year starter graduated, Panthers coach Marc Wilson was faced with the type of decision that would define this season, if not the next several seasons. On one hand, Wilson could tab senior Jamal Johnson.

A season ago, Chris Lewis could do it all for Imhotep Charter. He was an efficient and confident passer, comfortable in the shotgun and under center. He was a powerful yet quick runner, often extending plays with his legs while routinely keeping the football himself for solid gains. So when the three-year starter graduated, Panthers coach Marc Wilson was faced with the type of decision that would define this season, if not the next several seasons. On one hand, Wilson could tab senior Tyler Stone, a quarterback comfortable in the Panthers system.

IT'S DOUBTFUL Shakur Nesmith will ever forget his first play as a senior high school football player. Mostly because it was great. But also 'cause it was late. The 6-5, 195-pound Nesmith, who committed to Temple in mid-June, is a wide receiver. It's kind of hard to catch a ball, however, when you're relegated to spectator status. For failing to resolve a paperwork issue in a timely fashion, Nesmith was inactive yesterday for the first half of Imhotep Charter's non-league opener at Central.

Imhotep Charter coach Marc Wilson has instituted a curfew for his football players. It has nothing to do with what time they get home or go to bed. Wilson has issued a "Facebook curfew. " Starting this season, players may not write on the social-networking site after 11 p.m. the day before a game. Wilson said the online curfew was aimed at encouraging his players not to stay up late and curtailing Facebook trash talk, which occurs most often the day before a game. "We've seen it happen before where individuals start an exchange on Facebook, and it leads to something that becomes more physical and realistic," Wilson said.

On a sunny September morning, a playoff atmosphere roamed the field Saturday morning as Imhotep Charter faced Bok. Imhotep, led by Maurice Palmer's four touchdowns, rose to the occasion, breaking Bok's 45-game winning streak in the Public League with a 28-6 victory. "It's a great win," Imhotep coach Marc Wilson said. "For seven years in this league, we have not been able to beat this team. They've been the gatekeepers. They beat us every year. "It's always come down to us and Bok. We've never been able to get that monkey off our back, so this is like a championship within a season.