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Coach prayerfully resigns.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Marcus Borden of East Brunswick High School)(Brief Article)
As a football coach at East Brunswick (New Jersey) High School, Marcus Borden had a long and successful career. He accumulated a 116-100-1 career record, and his team won the Central Jersey Group IV championship in 2004.
He is also the founder of the Snapple Bowl, a charity all-star football game that has raised more than $150,000 for physically and mentally impaired children.
But it is something as traditional as football and as American as apple pie that made coach Borden controversial--he had the "audacity" to lead his team in prayer before each game.
After some parents apparently complained about the prayer, school district officials told the coach that he would have to stop. After searching his ...
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