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On Saturday, the East St. Louis Flyers football team traveled north to Kankakee and kept their 2023 postseason run going thanks to a convincing 39-13 win in an IHSA Class 5A quarterfinal game over ...
East St. Louis Senior High School won the 2008 Class 7A football state championship against Geneva High School. [6] The Flyers have a storied history in Illinois high school football, having won the state championship over a half-dozen times and the national championship twice. The Flyers beat Prairie Ridge in 2022 for the Class 6A football ...
Playing in the state championship game has been a way of life for the East St. Louis football Flyers since 1974. On Saturday, Nov. 26, East Side captured its 10th state championship thanks to a ...
Shannon and the East St. Louis Flyers were the subject of the book The Right Kind of Heroes, by newspaper reporter Kevin Horrigan, who is now a columnist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The book chronicles the Flyers' 1990 and 1991 seasons, during which they lost the state championship and then won it back.
After allowing an opening-drive touchdown, the Flyers absolutely dominated Prairie Ridge at Memorial Stadium in Champaign. The sweet taste of victory! East St. Louis romps to 10th state football ...
The Washington Panthers host the East St. Louis Flyers in an IHSA Class 6A football state semifinal on Saturday at Babcook Field in Washington.
Howard was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. He had an inauspicious beginning in football, being cut by his head coach in junior high. He attended East St. Louis High School, [1] where he played both linebacker and tight end for the Flyers high school football team coached by Bob Shannon.
“You can’t come out sluggish like that, I don’t care who you’re playing,” said a dissatisfied East Side coach Darren Sunkett.