Bill Furlong

Bill Furlong has stepped down as the head football coach at Manchester.

It's the chemistry and secondary leading the way for a Manchester Hawks team who have not fallen over the last couple seasons despite losing some top talent to graduation.

Manchester will try to rebound from consecutive 3-7 seasons while replacing standouts at quarterback and running back.

It hasn't been easy for Bill Furlong as Manchester Township Head Coach and following another down year (3-7), his third in the program, he's confident this will be the year they turn things in a positive direction with a lot of returning talent.

Bill Furlong, a 1983 Jackson Memorial graduate who was the head coach at a high school in Pennsylvania for the past 11 years, was approved by the Manchester Township Board of Education on Thursday night as the Hawks' new football coach. Furlong, who played for the Jaguars in the early 1980s and then at Ursinus College, comes over from Phoenixville High School, where he went 70-63 in 11 years befor