Photo by Richard A. Ross, Sportsinsightsny.com Eldred football coach Frank Kean addresses his players following their season-opening 56-3 victory over Tri-Valley. Kean is coaching in his final year. He is retiring in June. This is his 36th year as head football coach of the Yellow Jackets.

First of the last

Eldred’s Frank Kean feels the love as his final year of coaching begins

By RICHARD A. ROSS

GLEN SPEY, NY—“It’s always been about the love of working with kids. My primary objective has been to teach them,” says Eldred football coach Frank Kean.

Kean’s final season at the gridiron helm, his 36th, began in August as his entourage of returning players and a few rookies enthusiastically joined their beloved coach for one final charge toward hoped-for glory.

With one of the best teams he’s had in his storied career and the bittersweet knowledge of this as his swan song, Kean is savoring every teaching moment that will end in June with his retirement. He will have coached 108 seasons since he arrived at Eldred in 1972.

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Movers, shakers and headline makers

First-week action produces outstanding efforts from Sullivan West and Eldred

Millbrook 8, Tri-Valley 7

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—From the opening whistle of the first game, Eldred and Sullivan West athletes jumped into action full bore, dispelling any notion about slipping slowly into the young season and saving intensity for later.

Nothing doing.

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Sports spotlight

By RICHARD A. ROSS

SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY—The first week of sports action brimmed with intensity as area teams took to the fields, courts and courses to start their fall sojourns toward hoped-for glory. Here is a brief breakdown of some results and stats.

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