MIKE BROWN: Penn-Ohio Stateline Classic in Salem this year
This season, the 43rd annual Penn-Ohio Stateline Football Classic will be held in Ohio.
This year’s game will be held 7 p.m. June 22 at 7 p.m. at Salem’s Sebo Stadium. The game site alternates every other season between Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Ohio won last year’s game when quarterback Beau Brungard of Springfield Local (now at Youngstown State) tossed four scoring passes to lead the Buckeyes to a 35-28 win over the Keystoners in a game played at Reeves Stadium on the campus of Geneva College.
What’s so great about the Stateline Classic?
The thing I love about the Stateline Classic compared to other all-star games is this: Because of the rich football histories in Ohio and Pennsylvania, actual bragging rights are at stake when the two teams play, and thus, their all-star meetings are intense.
The Quad County Coaches Association, which includes 22 schools from a four-county area of eastern Ohio, is a co-sponsor of the game and their western Pennsylvania coaching counterparts.
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