Interboro's Krautzel puts Internet to use

There goes my hero

Watch him as he goes

There goes my hero

He's ordinary

In his video highlights from the 2007 season, easily accessed at YouTube and AOL Video, Shawn Krautzel is no ordinary football player.

With pulsating music from the Foo Fighters and AC/DC ("Shoot to Kill," from

Back in Black

) in the background, the Interboro wide receiver and kick returner dashes, darts and leaps over would-be tacklers. Despite extra-tight coverage, he makes amazing touchdown catches for the Bucs.

Also included in the video, a crisp and eye-catching production which lasts nearly eight minutes, are his nifty kick returns and plays as a defensive back.

Krautzel, a 6-foot-3, 190-pound senior, says the highlight footage has helped with the college recruiting process.

"If a coach can't make it to school or a game, for whatever reason, he can just go on the Internet, type my name in a Google search, and there it is," he said.

Krautzel said his video, also done for other Interboro players, was produced by someone contracted out by the school. The all-Del-Val League performer then asked one of Interboro's computer-science teachers to place it on sites such as YouTube.

"A lot of my buddies joke around with me about it," Krautzel said. "They say, 'Oh, there goes Shawn Krautzel again on YouTube.com.' "

Krautzel said several Division I-A and I-AA programs have expressed interest in him, including Northwestern, Syracuse, Villanova and New Hampshire.

Other area players that can be checked out on YouTube include Cardinal O'Hara quarterback and Rutgers recruit Tom Savage (8 minutes, 2 seconds), Glen Mills running back Bernard Pierce (4:26), and Upper Darby running back Chris Green (4:43).

Like Krautzel's, Green's video is backed up by the Foo Fighters' "My Hero."

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The Hurricanes

, by New York Times sportswriter Jere Longman (PublicAffairs, $26).

Longman, who covered the Eagles for The Inquirer years ago, details the 2006 experiences and struggles of a high school football team, South Plaquemines in Sulpher, La., following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

South Plaquemines was formed by merging three high schools in a heavily damaged area of rural Louisiana.

At a recent Mastbaum football game, several family members of tailback Rasheen Tookes could be seen in the stands at Northeast High wearing the prolific rusher's white-red-and-blue No. 3 jersey.

Mary Maginnis, a third-year member of the Mount St. Joseph Academy varsity eight boat, has committed to row for Harvard.

In July, Maginnis, of Maple Glen, was part of the U.S. Rowing junior national team that competed in Linz, Austria. The pair of Maginnis and Shannon Stief (Mukilteo, Wash.) won the B final in 7 minutes, 49.26 seconds and placed seventh overall.

At Harvard, Maginnis will know at least one person. Elle Hagedorn, a high-leaping senior forward for the Mount, the defending PIAA Class AAA state basketball champion, is also headed for Cambridge, Mass.

And finally, in a spoof of mainstream brand Old Navy, we were out and about and noticed an elderly gentleman wearing a T-shirt with "Old Army" written on the front.