A devastating injury to a Walla Walla High School player during a game in 1971 brought students, teachers and coaches together as family in a life-changing way.

Football coach’s on-field prayer not protected by Constitution, appeals court rules Players gather around Bremerton, Wash., High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, obscured in center ...

Football Field Prayers. SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit denied one of its judge's request to rehear en banc a case in which it had ruled against a former high school football coach who claimed his ...

Freedom of speech, assembly, press, and religion are the bedrocks of a free and vibrant society.

It was really, ‘Thank you, God, for what these young men just did on the field, and thank you for letting me be a part of it.’” Kennedy takes a knee in prayer after a football game Oct. 26 ...

Re “In School Prayer Case, Justices Seem to Lean Toward Former Coach” (news article, April 26), about a high school football coach who prayed on the field after games: It will be hardly ...

Joe Kennedy, who was fired in 2015 after he refused to stop saying prayers on the field while acting as a public school coach, said on Wednesday that he plans to take his case to the Supreme Court ...

Hundreds of people gathered on the field to pray after Friday's LVHS football game. The prayer was in response to recent letters the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent the district. HANOVER ...

The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in the case of a high school football coach who was fired over his practice of reciting a prayer on the 50-yard line following games.

The Supreme Court, siding with a football coach who knelt in prayer at the 50-yard line, ruled 6-3 that a school district cannot bar him from publicly exercising his faith on the field after the game.