FOOTBALL
The ACS EAGLE football program is available from 1st through 12th grade. The Youth Football Program offers the opportunity for flag football in the 1st/2nd grade and tackle football at the 3rd/4th and 5th/6th grade levels. Middle School Football is offered at the 7th and 8th grade levels. There are opportunities to play Junior Varsity and Varsity Football for our 9th through 12th grade students. Flag FB offered at 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th - Tackle begins 5th/6th
From its beginning in 1977, the Athens Christian Football Program has a rich heritage of competition and success. It is the goal of ACS to use the platform of football to grow young men physically, athletically, spiritually, and socially. We will strive daily to Teach, Train, and Invest in the lives of the young people who are a part of the Athens Christian Football Program.
FOOTBALL PROTOCOLS
We would like to extend a warm welcome to you and your athletes when traveling to Athens Christian School. We would like to inform you of what you can expect when traveling to our game sites and the social distancing protocol changes for this upcoming season. We will work very hard at making sites for football, volleyball, cross country, cheer and softball an enjoyable, safe event for your fans, players, and families. Please share with your friends, families, followers.
FOOTBALL: Varsity and Sub-Varsity
Bus parking will be on the Lower School side of campus near the baseball field entrance. An Administrator will meet you at the main entrance of campus to lead you to your locker room.
Outside of the visitor locker room is a grass playground that can also be used for your team.
We will provide a couple of Port-a-potties for added use.
We will provide help with golf cart(s) for transporting sideline equipment to and from the field sideline.
Piedmont Sports Med is our athletic trainer supplier and they are on site daily. They are here to help.
Visiting team fans will enter and exit the field through the double gates on the Founders Hall end of the stadium (south end).
The pressbox for the visiting team is located on the home side of the stadium. It will house the coaches with headsets and one video member. No radio in the pressbox, but radio can be set up in the visitor bleachers or on the track. Power cords will not be provided.
Pre-game warmup for the visiting team is at the south end of the stadium.
After competition, the visiting team will exit the field through the same gate entered.
Tony Pierce
Head Coach, Varsity Football
Tony Pierce has been a high school and college football coach at such universities as the University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University, Wake Forest University, The University of Georgia and Alabama State University.
He played in 41 straight games for Gettysburg College as a defensive back and was a captain his final year. At Gettysburg he broke the school interception record with 16 and tied a record with 3 in one game. After Gettysburg he was an All Conference Defensive Back with the NJ Rams Minor League Football Team. He also signed with the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League.
After coaching his high school alma mater, East Orange High, to a winning record in his third year and going 3-0 against Barringer, he felt that he was ready to try college football. He started out at Bucknell University at Defensive Back coach and led Bucknell to their first winning season in 10 years. He coached 2 Time Kodak All-American Mike Augsberger at Bucknell.
He soon moved to a head coaching position at Oberlin College in Ohio and broke one of the longest losing streaks in Division 3. He moved to Delaware State where he led DSU to a winning season as the Defensive Coordinator and also hooked up with former EO Running Back Fabian Thorne who became a 2 Time 1,000 yard rusher at DSU.
Tony was on both sides of the Backyard Brawl, the annual rivalry between Pitt and West Virginia. After leaving Pitt he moved over to the offensive side of the ball at WVU and coached 2 Time All American Amos Zereoue who was drafted to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
After a stint at Wake Forest as Defensive Coordinator he moved on to the University of Georgia where he coached All SEC Running Backs Musa Smith and Verron Haynes as well as tough fullback JT Wall. Moving on to Alabama State in the SWAC he led ASU to 2 Championship games and winning one as Defensive Coordinator/ Assistant Head Coach. Being here in Athens Tony has helped the Clarke Central and Athens Christian football teams in their run to the playoffs.
Coach Pierce was mentored by Pastor William T. Iverson who was an all American player in football, basketball, and track. Coach Pierce credits Mr. Iverson, who is 93 years young, for his impact and influence on his life.
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