City high school football divisions set

The 2010 City high school football season is still about 5 months away, but all tweaking has been completed.

In what has to be considered a shock, in light of the rapid expansion that dominated the latter half of the previous decade, the Public League is holding steady at 29 teams. (Boys' Latin Charter has been added. William Penn has vanished as the school undergoes refurbishing.) However, AAAA has been altered from three, five-team divisions to two with seven schools apiece.

The Catholic League, meanwhile, has shrunk from 17 to 14 teams with the outta-heres of North Catholic, Cardinal Dougherty and Kennedy-Kenrick. (Still hard to believe, right?)

Below you will find the divisional alignments for each league, along with the number of playoff qualifiers, as provided by league football honchos Pat Manzi (CL) and Joe Stanley (PL).

The City Titles will take place Nov. 13 (AA) and Nov. 20 (AAA/AAAA).

- Ted Silary

CATHOLIC LEAGUE

AAAA Division: Judge, La Salle, Roman, Ryan, SJ Prep (four make playoffs).

AAA Division: Bonner, Carroll, O'Hara, Wood (all make playoffs).

AA Division: Conwell-Egan, Lansdale, McDevitt, Neumann-Goretti, West (two make playoffs).

PUBLIC LEAGUE

AAAA Gold Division: Bartram, Frankford, Germantown, Lincoln, Northeast, Overbrook, Washington (four make playoffs, with top two earning first-round byes).

AAAA Silver Division: Central, Edison, Fels, Furness, Mastbaum, Olney, Southern (two make playoffs; mixed in with four from Gold for six total in AAAA).

AAA Division: Boys' Latin, Dobbins, Franklin, Gratz, King, Roxborough, University City, West (four make playoffs).

AA Division: Bok, Communications Tech, Del-Val, FitzSimons, Future, Imhotep, Prep Charter (four make playoffs; Future, the only A school, is playing up to AA.) *