A few rain sprinkles had no chance of dampening a spirited group of Warren football players. Not after the Blue Devils’ memorable — infamous? — road game in Week 2 of last season. After storms necessitated trips to Carol Stream on three consecutive days to complete a nonconference game against Glenbard North, Warren emerged with its first win of the year, 19-0.

Less than four months after accepting the head football job at Larkin, Ron Planz has been named the head football coach at Lake Zurich.

After four seasons as head football coach at his alma mater, Cristo Garza is leaving Round Lake to become the new head football coach at Zion-Benton.

Lake Zurich junior Hunter Welcing never played organized football until his sophomore year, but last month he verbally committed to Northwestern University and head coach Pat Fitzgerald.

Lake Zurich High School English teacher and head football coach Luke Mertens announced Monday that he is stepping down from both his teaching and coaching positions effective at the end of the 2018-2019 school year.

Stevenson has named Brent Becker its new head football coach, ending a bizarre sequence of events for the Lincolnshire school in the past week.

Former Mundelein football coach Larry Calhoun, who recently stepped down from his post, believes that the IHSA's Proposal 23, a districting format that will eliminate conferences beginning in 2021, makes complete sense and is the best option for kids because it provides a level playing field and an equitable chance for teams to qualify for the playoffs. Calhoun formerly coached in Texas, which uses a districting format for high school football

Brian Glashagel played football at Conant in the late 1980s and was part of the rivalry madness with fellow Mid-Suburban League foe Schaumburg. Now he's the head football coach at Antioch, and is a part of a spirited Northern Lake County Conference football rivalry with Lakes High School. Glashagel is worried that conference rivalries in Illinois high school football, the old, spirited and sometimes even bitter rivalries that go back decades and decades, are about to go extinct wiht the passage of Proposal 23, which eliminates conference play starting in 2021.

Mike Morrissey, head varsity football coach for Moline High School for the past three seasons, will remain at the school as a teacher and head football this fall, according to a news release issued Friday afternoon, the Quad Cities Times is reporting.