Tickets are now on sale for the 2025 Dartmouth Health Children’s New Hampshire East-West High School All-Star Football Game. Powered by Bedford and Nashua Ambulatory Surgical Centers, the game takes place Friday, June 27, at 6 p.m. at Saint Anselm College, located at 100 Saint Anselm Drive in Manchester. Tickets can be purchased on Saint Anselm’s Dana Center website. All tickets are general admission and are $18.50 each when purchased in advance. Children 5 and under are free.
Over 90 of New Hampshire’s top football players from more than 30 different schools across the state will be playing in this year’s fundraising game to benefit programs and services at Dartmouth Health Children’s and Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) that rely on philanthropy.
Returning as head coach from the 2023 All-Star Football game is Merrimack High School head coach Kip Jackson for Team West. Jackson has also served as assistant coach for the All-Star Football game in 2021, 2022 and 2024. A total of 47 players will represent the western division of the state, including players from Goffstown, Nashua, Manchester, Bedford and Merrimack.
Team East will be led by Steve Abraham, head coach at Salem High School, who also has experience with the All-Star Football game and served as Team East assistant coach in 2019, 2023 and 2024. A total of 47 players will represent the eastern division of the state, including players from Exeter, Dover, Londonderry and Derry.
Following high school graduations, players and coaches will begin practices as they prepare for the All-Star Football game at Saint Anselm’s Grappone Stadium at the end of June. Fans can donate to the players on their individual fundraising pages at CHaDAllStarFootball.org. Sponsorship packages are also available to businesses and organizations who wish to partner with Dartmouth Health Children’s through the All Star-Football Game.
Additional game day info can be found at CHaDAllStarFootball.org.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
About Dartmouth Health Children's
Dartmouth Health Children's is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD)—in Lebanon, NH—Dartmouth Health Children's promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children's conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled and collaborative child health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester. Primary care appointments in general pediatrics are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Bedford, Concord, Lebanon, Manchester and Nashua, NH and Bennington, VT; as well as at Dartmouth Health members: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Cheshire Medical Center, New London Hospital and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center.