South Hunterdon head coach Toby Jefferis – shown here at as Bode Dunn signs on to play football at Springfield College in May, 2023, has been around the Eagles program since he was a child. (Source: @b7dunn on Twitter)
No, Toby Jefferis hasn’t been the coach of South Hunterdon football for 52 years. But he’s been around it that long: his entire life.
That’s because his father, Sam, had been the head coach for four years already when when he was born. So he spent plenty of time with pop, growing up on the sidelines, then playing for his father, and helping out as a scout and an assistant coach.
Oh, and his dad never really left either. In fact, at Big Central Conference Media Days last week, Toby Jefferis talked about some of his earliest memories of Eagles football, and some of his most recent, all of which seem to involved Sam Jefferis.
Click below to hear South Hunterdon head coach Toby Jefferis talk about his long connection with the Eagles football program: