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Coach Tim Roken of St. Joseph's Prep talks to his team after a 42-0 victory over Imhotep Charter in the District 12 championship game on Nov. 16, 2024.

Coach Tim Roken of St. Joseph’s Prep talks to his team after a 42-0 victory over Imhotep Charter in the District 12 championship game on Nov. 16, 2024. Charles Fox / Staff Photographer

By Joseph Santoliquito, For The Inquirer

For over a decade, the standard had only one standard to eclipse each season — its own.

For years, St. Joseph’s Prep was leaving a wide gap between itself and everyone else in Southeastern Pennsylvania high school football — and throughout the state. The Hawks delighted in being the area’s crimson-and-gray Darth Vaders. The program embraced that, on the high school level, they were the Dallas Cowboys — the team everyone loved to hate.

That came from winning. And winning. And winning.

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