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After 129 years, Newtown High in Elmhurst is finally getting a football team

After 129 years, Newtown High School in Elmhurst is launching its first football team as part of a major athletic complex renovation, bringing new green space and opportunities to 1,750 students in central Queens.

Students and officials hold shovels at the groundbreaking ceremony for Newtown High School’s new football field in Elmhurst,
Students and community leaders break ground on Newtown High School’s new football field in Elmhurst, marking the start of the school’s first-ever football program after 129 years. Photo by Shane O’Brien. Photo by Shane O’Brien

After 129 years, Newtown High in Elmhurst is finally getting a football team

After 129 years, Newtown High School in Elmhurst is launching its first football team as part of a major athletic complex renovation, bringing new green space and opportunities to 1,750 students in central Queens.

After 129 years, Newtown High in Elmhurst is finally getting a football team

Newtown High School in Elmhurst has been around for 129 years, and in all that time it has never had a football team. That is about to change. The school is renovating its athletic complex so it can field a football program for the first time in its history.

A school this old getting its first football team is good Queens news, and it reaches beyond the sport. The renovation is set to serve more than 350 student athletes…

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