I think I'll have to go with Union City, that elevated field is to die for!
Favorite NJHSFB Stadium?
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St. Joe’s Montvale. Up on hill, fall foliage and the best concessions in NJ football. Maybe even the country. Sausage & Peppers sandwiches. Chicken Parm. Much more than just hot dogs and pretzels.
Favorite I ever played in was Hinchliffe in Paterson. Belleville, Clifton and Kearny actually have cool set-ups with their 'don't make them like they used to' large WPA-era concrete stands (Kearny also has the school right behind/ above the stands with the NYC skyline serving as the backdrop for the field) and as far as a 'classic/ traditional' settings, Hawthorne and Nutley HS have great setups (also like Manchester, Randolph, Paramus and St. Joe's-Montvale as well).
Joe P.
Joe P.
Maloney Stadium in Phillipsburg.
Brick exterior. Classic gates. Big crowds of 5,000 the norm, many season ticket holders, overlooks the Delaware river, decades of winning tradition.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1997-09-08-3156339-story,amp.html
Brick exterior. Classic gates. Big crowds of 5,000 the norm, many season ticket holders, overlooks the Delaware river, decades of winning tradition.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1997-09-08-3156339-story,amp.html
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Agree about the concrete stands. Bloomfield's Foley Field used to be my favorite before they started to crumble and were replaced.
Same thing with Collingswood Stadium until the knocked it down and replaced it with 2 small bleachers and a hillAgree about the concrete stands. Bloomfield's Foley Field used to be my favorite before they started to crumble and were replaced.
Livingston HS, because I watched my daughter win conference, county and state soccer titles there. Also, one of the nicest public school fields you'll see.
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Memorial Stadium in New Brunswick It’s old but they did a great job upgrading it.
Memorial Stadium in New Brunswick It’s old but they did a great job upgrading it.
I will go homer here....but Depken Field - Hasbrouck Heights. Stands built into the hill. But the true selling point being they are the Aviators while sitting in the stands you just the image of plane taking off and landing in Teterboro airport right across the highway.
Honorable mention to Weehawken which sits right on top of the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Always loved playing there.
Honorable mention to Weehawken which sits right on top of the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Always loved playing there.
Back in my day Bloomfield and Clifton had great home stands.
The “overflowing” Nutley Oval was cool.
Martin Stadium in East Orange during the “back to back” state championship years was very cool.
Of course I’ll always be faithful to Woodman Field in good ol’ Montclair.
The “overflowing” Nutley Oval was cool.
Martin Stadium in East Orange during the “back to back” state championship years was very cool.
Of course I’ll always be faithful to Woodman Field in good ol’ Montclair.
Hey Zap....off topic here but my uncle was always a big fan of your dad's so I bought him the book for his birthday last week. Not much of a reader but he cracked it right open.
Asbury Park Stadium Is the most memorable place I’ve played, followed by Holmdel
W hen I was a kid in high school they used to play double headers at Newark School Stadium on Bloomfield Ave.Seated 12,000 and was usually full.
I've been to a game at Woodman,many many years ago.Clary was HC and Butch was an assistant.
Yes, my HS career was a number of non-descript suburban fields with aluminum bleachers . The Blue Bishops was the only place of note.
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Agree about the concrete stands. Bloomfield's Foley Field used to be my favorite before they started to crumble and were replaced.
I played or more correctly sat the bench for a game there.
I like Holmdel only because it’s pretty dramatic if you’re driving down the parkway on a Friday night and the lights are on and the parkway, the war memorial and PNC arts center overlooks the field.
That part is cool. Especially for night game.
But they need to reline the field as it's a little off. Will check this Spring if my Son's HS has a LAX game there.
Belleville (also used to be two big sets of wooden/ metal bleachers on the visitors' side until about 1999/2000):
Kearny:
Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson (first place I ever played on AstroTurf; really hope the planned renovation happens):
Joe P.
Kearny:
Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson (first place I ever played on AstroTurf; really hope the planned renovation happens):
Joe P.
That's a great stadium. Does the baseball field still measure 350 down the lines?My Alma Mater.
Woodbury High School
Bill Denny Stadium in South River. In the first football game my dad ever took me to in 1966, I saw Joe Thiesmann throw a touchdown pass to Drew Pearson. I don't remember the play, but my dad assured me that I saw it! :-D Also the playing field for Alexander "Wojie" Wojciechowicz who is in the Hall of Fame and played offensive line for Fordham with Vince Lombardi.
Del Val in the northwest. The stadium itself is nondescript, but driving up to stadium on a Friday night absolutely gives you that Field of Dreams vibe. It is located in the middle of corn fields with no other lights around.
I'll go with Phillipsburg. I've been to several games there. Not just a nice setting on a hill, large bleachers etc, but more importantly the fans are just very traditional. Saw a bunch of old ladies sitting together as if it was just somewhere they were supposed to be on a friday night. They take it seriously
I know it's not football but that's the same way I feel about the Manasquan in-line hockey rink right off the beach.
Lights usually shrouded in some sea mist or fog.
This is what I always played for them as we approached for a game or practice...
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North Hunterdon visiting bleachers are interesting for sure. Unless they finally have upgraded them
Funny. I grew up in NB for 27 years. Got married and lived in Hillsborough for 5 years, right across the street from the HS. Brand new condo complex at the time. Hillsborough looks a lot different nowadays. The big shopping complex at Amwell and Route 206 was just a field and the Flagtown carnival was a happening.
I played in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. Miller Stadium, and Roosevelt Union City were also real stadiums we used.
Nutley oval was better before the renovation when fans sat on opposite sides. The visitors actually sat in the concrete bleachers and Nutley fans on green wooden bleachers behind the Nutley bench.
Now all fans sit in concrete bleachers behind visitors bench
One of my favorites is Weehawken by the Lincoln tunnel entrance
I never knew that visiting fans sat in the concrete stands on the Franklin Ave side in the Oval at one point. I remember in the mid/ late 90's we (visitors) were by the baseball field/ snack stand in '95 and '97 and even after I graduated (98) into the early 2000's.
I do agree that the Oval seemed to lose a little something when they got rid of the opposite side bleachers after they put the turf in in 2005. Even as a Belleville guy I always thought the Oval setting was really solid, from walking 'down' to the field from the street to Franklin/Walker Middle as the backdrop (while also being right in the heart of downtown).
Joe P.
Nutley-Westfield at the Park Oval in early 70's etched in my mind. Whatever it sat, there had to be twice that many at the game.
Wife is from Bloomfield they were still there when I 1st moved there. I have lived in Nutley and have yet to make a game at the oval
I am from Union County and Westfield-Union-Elizabeth were the powerhouse back then. Long long before the parochials started handing out money to go to their schools