North High School • Worcester, MA

The Spaghetti
Bowl 2026

A reunion dinner for the North High football family. Organized by Tobias Jeffy and Mrs. Coach (aka Jo Ann Savage) to celebrate Coach Ed & Jo Ann Savage and the family and legacy they built together.

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Our Legacy

More Than a Team.
A Family.

In the '90s, North High football was more than a sport. Coach Ed Savage and Jo Ann built a program and a family that treated every player like one of their own.

Coach and his wife Jo Ann opened their home to players. They fed us, drove us to practice, and showed up for us in ways that went well beyond football.

Early morning rides. After-practice meals. Real conversations that had nothing to do with X's and O's. That stuff stuck with us. The classes of the '90s still carry it today.

Today, Coach is alive and well, happily retired and spending his days on the golf course and with his grandkids alongside Mrs. Coach. The Spaghetti Bowl is our chance to come together, see Coach and Jo Ann, and celebrate the family and legacy they built together.

The Savage Family Legacy

Coach demanded discipline and gave loyalty in return. Mrs. Coach made every player feel like family the moment they walked through the door. Together, they built something bigger than a football program. Their rallying cry: Nerve, Heart, Spirit.

Now retired, Coach is doing great, enjoying the golf course, spoiling the grandkids, and still going strong with Mrs. Coach by his side. The legacy they built together lives on in every player who came through their home.

Mrs. Coach (aka Jo Ann Savage)

There is no Coach without Mrs. Coach. Jo Ann fed the players, cheered the loudest, and made sure every young man on the team knew somebody cared. She was the heart of everything, an equal partner in building the family that North High became.

Ed & Joan Savage Sr.

The Savage family legacy started a generation before Coach. His parents, Ed Sr. and Joan, opened their home and yard to players on many occasions. That hospitality, that instinct to bring people together and treat them like family, ran deep. The house Ed Sr. built in Worcester is still standing.

Classes of the '90s

From '90 to '99, North High turned out players who became leaders, fathers, and good men. If you were in the stands, you remember the Orange Crush chant. The Spaghetti Bowl brings us back together to reconnect and celebrate the family and legacy the Savages built.

What Made Us Family

The Traditions

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Spaghetti Dinners

Before every game, the team came together for a spaghetti dinner at the Savage house. Coach and Mrs. Coach made sure no one went hungry. It was about more than carb-loading. It was about sitting down together as a family the night before you went to war together.

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Thanksgiving Dinners

Every Thanksgiving, Coach and Mrs. Coach opened their home to players. Some guys had nowhere else to go. Some just wanted to be there. Either way, you had a seat at the table and a plate in front of you. That was the Savage house.

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March 21, 2026

Honoring the Life & Legacy of Jerome Jeffy

January 18, 1978 – January 25, 2026

The North High community came together to honor the life and legacy of Jerome Jeffy, a beloved teammate and pillar of the NHS football family. Jerome was the spark that got everyone talking about coming back together for the Spaghetti Bowl.

Mrs. Coach was there, remembering Jerome, Tobias, and all the team members fondly. The dinners, the early mornings, the brotherhood that never faded. She shared how much those years and those young men meant to her and Coach.

Mrs. Coach expressed that she and Coach would love for everyone to get together for Spaghetti in 2026, one more time, for Jerome, for the family that North High built, and to see all the guys again.

Forever in our hearts, always remember.

The SpaghettiBowl 2026

More Than a Team.A Family.