PHILLIPSBURG HIGH SCHOOL (NEW JERSEY)

'Phillipsburg High School' is a comprehensive, four-year public high school located in Phillipsburg, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. This school is located in the eastern part of the Lehigh Valley, at the Pennsylvania border. For this reason, the school's nickname is the "Stateliners."
The school is part of the Phillipsburg School District, an Abbott District that serves students from the town of Phillipsburg and from five area communities: Alpha, Bloomsbury (in Hunterdon County), Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township, who attend as part of sending/receiving relationships.

Contents

Student population

Athletics

Notable alumni

References

External links

Student population

Phillipsburg High School serves about 1,600 students, in excess of the school's capacity. To compensate for this, the Phillipsburg School District either owns or leases 31 trailers. A plan for a new high school has been in the works for some time, but the current proposal has stalled due to lack of funds. Local parents have organized efforts to advocate on behalf of a new high school building.^[1]

Athletics

Phillipsburg High School has an athletic rivalry with neighboring Easton, Pennsylvania's Easton High School. The two teams play an annual football game on Thanksgiving that is one of the oldest rivalries in American high school football.^[2] The game, which typically draws some 10,000 fans, was broadcast nationally on ESPN in 1988. The rivalry, as always, was played on Lafayette College's Fisher Field in Easton. The 100th meeting between the two schools, which Easton won 21-7, was broadcast nationally on ESPN2 on Thanksgiving Day 2006.^[3]
The wrestling team won the 2007 North II, Group IV state sectional championship with a 34-25 win against Bridgewater-Raritan High School.^[4]

Notable alumni

★ Charlie Berry, former professional baseball and football player and umpire in Major League Baseball.^[5]

★ Robert B. Meyner, former Governor of New Jersey.^[6]

★ Charles Rinehart (1875-1933), football player, elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964.^[7]

★ Jim Ringo, former professional football player, Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame.^[8]

References

1. Please Help Save Our School, accessed January 6, 2007
2. High school rivals are like family, ''USA Today'', September 21, 2005
3. Every year fields the game of the century, ''USA Today'', November 23, 2006.
4. 2007 Team Wrestling Tournament - North II, Group IV, NJSIAA. Accessed July 23, 2007.
5. "Jack's Facts: A Closer Look at the Easton/Phillipsburg Rivalry", ''The Morning Call'', November 21, 2006, accessed April 13, 2007. "The Garnet's Charlie Berry would score all Phillipsburg's points in a 14-7 win. Berry after graduating from PHS went on to have outstanding career at Lafayette College and later became an American League baseball umpire and officiated in the NFL."
6. Robert B. Meyner from NNDB, November 29, 2006.
7. Charles Rinehart, College Football Hall of Fame. Accessed August 14, 2007.
8. Brady, Erik. "Every year fields the game of the century" ''USA Today'', November 23, 2006, accessed April 13, 2007. "Dailey was an assistant coach at Syracuse who recruited some P-burg players, including Jim Ringo, who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a center for the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles."

External links

★ Phillipsburg High School Official Home Page.

★ Phillipsburg High School athletics schedule and scores at HighSchoolSports.net.

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