Clinton becoming a prominent football program is all about collaboration between the junior football league (JFL) program and the head football coach at the high school level.

During Apple n' Pork coverage on WHOW, JFL coach Wes Graves talked about the collaboration between the two and how that is impacting what is happening with Clinton football.

It costs around $150 per student to play in JFL but Grave says parking cars across Business 51 from the CH Moore Homestead grounds help them cover the cost of other things like field rentals and paying officials. 

Coach Graves says numbers are very strong in the program this year. He says they have just over 90 players across their three teams. He credits the administrators in their various school buildings promoting the program and allowing them to get in front of them.