from trentonian.com
By BILL KENNYFor The Trentonian
During his first stint as head coach of the Morrisville High School football team, Jim Gober presided over the darkest period in the history of the program.After succeeding Hank DeGeorge in 1999, Gober went 2-8 in his first season and 0-11 in his second. In 2001, with the Bulldogs struggling to sign up enough players to field a team, the school cancelled its varsity schedule on the eve of the season.Kurt Schneider took over the program the following year.But now, Gober is back at the helm again and directing Morrisville to its best season start in two decades. The Bulldogs improved to 2-0 with a 37-7 trouncing of Princeton Day School last Friday.And they look like a good pick to win their third in a row. Morrisville hosts Conrad Science of Delaware on Friday night. Last weekend, Conrad opened its first varsity football season since 1977 with a 47-0 loss to the Maryland School for the Deaf.Morrisville hasn’t been unbeaten after its first two games since 1990, in head coach Tim Landis’ final season. The Bulldogs raced to a 5-0 record that year, before finishing 5-6.Two years later, under coach Chuck Knowles and led by quarterback Tim Groves, Morrisville went 10-2, but only after losing its first game to Salisbury Township. The Bulldogs have had just one winning season since then, 6-5 in 1997.Gober’s best record since returning to the program in 2005 was 5-6. He is 12-54 overall as head coach.
