Football Time: Bloomfield Faces Annual Test
Bloomfield facing Montclair in Thanksgiving week classic
Investors Bank is spicing up the annual Thanksgiving football game that pits the Bloomfield High School Bengals (6-3) against the Montclair High School Mounties (9-0). After competing for the Investors Bank Cup, the winner will keep the trophy until the Bengals and the Montclair Mounties meet on the gridiron next year. For over 80 years, the Bengals and Mounties have faced each other in the Thanksgiving football classic that is now sponsored by Investors. This year, the game will kick off at Foley Field on Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday, November 23 at 6 p.m. Tickets, which are available at the field, cost $3 for adults and $2 for students and seniors. Immediately after the game, Investors President and CEO Kevin Cummings and managers of …
Steve Sears
5:23 pm on Monday, November 21, 2011
Nice article! Someone may want to look into this. When Bloomfield and Montclair faced each other up until 1976 (the series then was discontinued for about 8 years), I heard the played for hunk of coal. Its whereabouts is unknown, but someone told me back in 1981 that the Montclair Art Museum had it. Steve more ›