Biography With the Attleboro Area Football Hall of Fame celebrating its 30th anniversary, it is fitting that we honor a person who has been covering the area's high school football teams for almost that same timeframe. Peter Gobis has been with the Sun Chronicle as a sports writer, editor and ambassador of jounalistic fairness and integrity since 1972. He has followed...

Biography Coaching high school football involves long hours of hard work many of which are spent in uncomfortable weather conditions. It takes a special dedication to make the commitment and continue year after year. Jeff Grant is one who has made the commitment. For 24 years Jeff has been an assistant coach for the North High football program. He has gone about his j...

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Biography Under construction...hope to have information soon.

Biography Under construction...hope to have information soon.

Biography Under construction...hope to have information soon.

Biography In the early 50's at Attleboro High School, Nick Haselton was known for his exploits on the basketball court but it was his superb skills as an assistant football coach that would impact the lives of hundreds of AHS athletes. A natural-born teacher and coach, Nick graduated from Springfield College in 1958 and returned to Attleboro to begin a coaching and ad...

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Biography Over the past eighteen years, the husband & wife tandem of Wayne and Patty Hitchcock have left an indelible mark on the North Attleboro High School football program with their unending willingness to volunteer their time and talents. To the Red & White coaching staff, the Hitchcocks embody the word loyalty, and through their actions they epitomize wh...

Biography Although he did not attend North Attleboro High School or ever play a down of football wearing the Red & White, one would be hard pressed to find anyone over the past 30 years who has volunteered more of his free time to the Red Rocketeer football program in a non-coaching capacity than Bud Holden. To those outside the program, Bud is best known as the v...

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Biography Under construction...hope to have information soon.

Biography Bill Kummer made exceptional contributions to the North Attleboro student body and its athletes during his more than 30 years of service to the town's educational system. An outstanding lineman in his schoolboy days at Taunton and later at Wagner College, Bill joined the North High faculty as a teacher coach , and contributed materially to the successes the ...

Biography Joe Lafratta is the father of pre-teen football in North Attleboro. Acting out of a desire to create a formal football program for pre-high schoolers, Joe formed the Rockets back in 1962. That first team provided a responsible recreational program for 25 boys. A year later, another team was formed. The program eventually grew to embrace five teams and provid...

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Biography Tradition and community support are two of the cornerstones of Red Rocketeer Football. Over the years tbe townspeople have supported the football program in various ways, all of whkh have brought the athletes and citizens of the town a little bit closer together. Roy Lockwood has supported the athletes and especially the football program, for more than 40 ye...

Biography Don Maitland officiated his first game about 40 years ago. Since that time he has been a mainstay on the high school and college football circuit in the local area. 'Mait' as he was affectionately called, was popular figure both on and off the field. The members and guests of this banquet will remember Don as a good natured fun-loving guy who was in attendan...

Biography Mike Martin has excelled as a high school coach for years! You usually associate Coach Martin as the man who started Attleboro High School gymnastics program in 1974, but he also brought that same dedication and passion to the gridiron. Coach Martin coached 14 years at Attleboro during two separate tenures. From 1972-1978, the knowledgeable Martin guided the...

Biography Athletic trainers have no stats, but they make plenty of them. From 1989 to 2001 Steve Mayer, “Mr. Mayer” to all AHS football players, made stats. He didn’t make them by running down the field or throwing passes, but by getting the Bombardier players that you read about in the Sun Chronicle on the field. Mr. Mayer was always there to treat an injury or encou...

Biography Jake McKenna, who played under Jim Cassidy at Attleboro High in the early '60s, has devoted a good portion of his adult fife to youth work. After serving for many years with the Pop Warner Program in Attleboro, Jake turned his hand to high school coaching in the early '70s. For a decade, he coached alternately at Feehan and Attleboro, exhorting his troops wi...