Wednesday, September 1, Modified Practice starts.  See Coach Romonowski’s post below for details

Wednesday, September 1, Meet the Coaches Night, grades 9-12 @ Columbia.  All Sports BBQ  4-7, $8 per dinner.  Meet the Coaches meeting 7 PM

Thursday, September 2, Varsity Team Meal

Friday, September 3, Freshman Scrimmage 10 AM @ home

Friday, September 3, Varsity Football @ CBA, 7 pm

Saturday, September 4,  JV Football vs CBA 10 am

Please come out and support all our players!

Uniform Return:   Please bring your cleaned game uniforms and practice uniforms back to Coach Cavotta (S-119) or Coach Romanowski (Social Studies Office S-222) by Tuesday 11-3. Please have it all cleaned and in a plastic bag with your name on it/in it.

**Please do not put your banquet reservation in your uniform bag**

Columbia Varsity Football  and Cheerleading photographs taken by Capital District Sports Photos are online and available from the photographer.  Website is www.cdsportspix.com

Top Form Raffle Tickets available at the banquet. $2 each, 3 for $5

Columbia Freshmen Team finished their season undefeated with an impressive win over a very good Scotia Team.  Great Job Freshmen!

Modified tied Troy to end their season.

Varsity fell to CBA in their final game of the season.

Varsity will play their final game of the 2009 season on Thursday, October 29 at 7 pm against CBA on Budnowski field. Varsity will hold their final team meal of the 2009 season on Wednesday, after the last practice.  Thank you to all the varsity families for supplying food, drinks and desserts for the team through the season.  Special thanks to Allison Talar for coordinating the team meals.

Modified will play their final game of the 2009 season on Saturday, October 31 at 10 am against Troy on Budnowski field.

Freshman play at Saratoga on Tuesday, October 27 at 4 pm, and then play the final game of Columbia’s season on Saturday, October 31 at 1 pm against Scotia.  This will be the last game of the double header on Budnowski field that day.

*** The annual banquet will be held on Friday, November 6 at Columbia.  All players are free and encouraged to come and celebrate the season with the Columbia Football family.

Equipment return: All players are required to wash all of their uniform pieces: practice pants and jersey, game pants, and home and away jerseys and return them to Coach Cavotta’s classroom at Columbia in a plastic bag labeled with their name.  Modified players will return their uniforms to Coach Bresnahan. Thank you for taking good care of Columbia uniforms!

Varsity will travel to Bleeker Stadium in Albany for a 6 PM game on Friday, October 23, vs. Albany.

JV will play their last game of the year against CBA at home on Thursday, at 3:30. Help is needed to open the concession stand.

Freshmen face Guilderland at home on Wednesday, 6:00 pm.  JV and Varsity parents are needed to help with concession. The Year End sportswear sale will be held during the freshman game.

Modified play at Mohonasen on Thursday at 4 pm.

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Week 9 Tentative:

Varsity will face CBA at home on Thursday at 7 PM.  NOT CONFIRMED

Saturday, October 31, Doubleheader at Budnowski Field for the last 2 games of the year.

Modified faces Troy at 10 am. Freshman face Scotia at 1 pm

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Week 10, Annual Columbia Football Banquet, Friday, November 6, 6 pm at Columbia

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Freshman travel to Schenectady on Wednesday, 4 pm.  JV challenge Shaker on Thursday, 6 pm at Shaker.  Modifiedare home on Saturday at 9 am.

Varsity will host Shaker on Friday night for the final game regular season game of 2009. 

 Friday night, 10-16 is Senior night. 

Senior football players will be honored before the game. 

Help is needed in the concession stand and with sportswear on Friday night.

  See you at the field!

Week 6 is Homecoming Week at Columbia!  Join the exciting activities at Columbia.

Freshman meet the Burnt Hills Freshman at home on Wednesday, 6:30 pm.  Help is needed in the concession stand from JV and Varsity Parents.

Modified is away at Lisha Kill, (South Colonie) on Friday, 4 pm.

Varsity team meal, Thursday, 5 pm.

Varsity faces Schenectady on Friday night in the homecoming game.  Help is needed in the concession stand  and with sportswear from JV , Freshman and Modified Parents. This is the busiest night of the year, and normally the booster club earns a lot of money to support our programs on this night.

JV has their second team meal on Friday Night, at 6 pm, they will play in Schenectady on Saturday at 10 am.

So far this year there has been a ton of support and help from the football families at all levels, and the impact of this help is felt thought the program.  Thank you for stepping up and making Columbia Football a successful program!

Columbia JV improved their record to 4-1 by beating LaSalle 21-13.

Columbia Freshmen improved their record to 3-0 with an impressive victory over Queensbury, 39-8.

Columbia Modified Football scored another big victory against Sand Creek 49-6,  then in their second game of the week, Modified held tough beating Saratoga 12-8 bringing their record to 3-0.

Columbia welcomes East Greenbush Pop Warner on Friday night.  Pop Warner players in uniform receive free admission.  Cheerleaders will cheer with the Varsity, and half time will feature a Flag game. 

East Greenbush Teacher of the Year, Lisa Westman will be honored as part of the annual Teacher Appreciation Celebration.  Ms. Westman will be an honorary captain for the coin toss.

Catch the Excitement of Columbia Football