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Blackhawks Prove Too Much For NGM
On display this evening was a battle between two regional teams representing two Chambers of Commerce - River Valley (Spring Green) and NGM (New Glaru...
Hillmen Spoil Homecoming 28-12
Homecoming. The very word conjures up all kinds of nostalgic recollections of warmth and good cheer. And perhaps, just perhaps, it is an event we can...
Chiefs Axe NGM To Go 5-0
I'll go out on a limb and wager that, on this evening, NGM was the only football team in the United States that was greeted by four Alphorns playing...
NGM Bumps Off Blackhawks 28-27 in SWC Thriller
Aaaahhhhh. The sweet taste of victory! Nothing can soothe the wounds and replace past frustrations like the feeling of victory. And tonight it was...
Cards Deck NGM 54-14
So I flipped the page on my wall calendar the other day and there it was, staring me right in the face - SEPTEMBER, already. I really have no reason...
Cats Thump NGM 35-6 in Rivalry Game
The chestnut trees in my backyard are dropping their treasures, a sure sign of football season. But, when I drove into the parking lot at Belleville...
NGM Falls in Opener by One
LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Having just walked off this field this past May 7 in the special Spring COVID Season, NGM and hundreds of teams across the state...
NGM Football Opens Season August 20
New season. New conference. New team. If you like all things new, this upcoming football season is custom made for you. This fall NGM will be a new member of a new conference, the Southwest...
Memories of the State Line League
If you have read any of my past NGM football posts, there is a good chance you have heard me wax both nostalgic and elegiac about the old, venerable...
Streiff and Schuett To Play in WFCA All-Star Game
Every year the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association (WFCA) hosts an All-Star game featuring the recently graduated seniors. The game is played...
RIVALS CLASH - It's Cats by 1 in Season Finale
The more things change, the more they stay the same. No, I'm not talking about COVID. Well, not entirely anyway. I'm talking here about rivalries -...
New Cards - Same Deck
What is it about Cardinals? Of late this would seem to be a very good mascot to have on your helmet should you be playing football against NGM. This time it was the Cardinals of Columbus, a team that...
A Cuban Crisis
The last time I heard the words “Cuban Crisis” was in 1962, when I and my fellow elementary school classmates were being taught to dive under our desks. The intent, we were told, was to somehow...
Cards Deal NGM First Loss in 23-22 Thriller
In more ways than one, it was an evening made for football as two undefeated heavyweights squared off for bragging rights. The Madison TV stations...
NGM Rolls Over OPA 50-20 To Go 3-0
"Neither wind, nor rain, nor gloom of night...", not even the Rock County line would stay NGM from its "appointed rounds" on this evening as their...
AIR RAID! AIR RAID!
On a 29-degree evening that looked and felt every bit like November, the Friday Night Lights show made its long awaited return to the New Glarus gridi...
NGM Football to Open First Ever Spring Season
Taking license with (and a posthumous apology offered to) the poet Tennyson, ‘In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of...................football’???? Yes, football! And...
Glarner Knights Prepare to Defend State Title
Does it seem like it has been eight months since we turned the Kohl Center into “New Glarus North”, leaving a ghost town behind? I am still left to wonder if the ball that Jaden Kreklow sent...
NGM Rolls in Rivalry Game, 42-7
Friday, October 18. On a perfectly crisp made-for-football October evening, the rivalry which defines the very word commenced as the lads from...
Columbus Ground Game Too Much For NGM
Friday, September 6. NGM traveled to Columbus for game #3 of the young 2019 season. It was another crossover game with another good Capitol North team. NGM won the toss. Thereafter the night belonged...
Under Water in Lake Mills
Friday, August 30. It was a tale of two halves. Lake Mills set the tone early with two unanswered touchdowns in the first quarter. The NGM defense stiffened and the offense found its footing with two...
NGM Rolls in Season Opener
Friday, August 23. On a beautiful late August evening, NGM played host to the visiting Dodgeville Dodgers as the 2019 WIAA High School football...
NGM Football to Open 2019 Season Friday, August 23, Against Dodgeville
Unless you have been in a state of comatose inaction, you are no doubt aware that the 2019 football season is upon us. NFL, College, and yes high...
Mystery in the Marsh - NGM is Humbled By Horicon-Hustisford
Friday, October 26. The NGM football team and its legion of loyal fans followed the flyways north to marsh country, taking on Horicon-Hustisford in a...
Riot On the River NGM Wins Big at Prairie du Chien
Friday, October 19. NGM, playing as a #7 seed, made the long trek to Prairie du Chien to take on the second-seeded Blackhawks in the first round of...
