{"id":16349,"date":"2025-10-27T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16349\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:02:11","slug":"bethlehem-football-is-central-to-life-of-libertys-pukszyn-which-is-why-he-needs-a-city-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16349\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem football is central to life of Liberty\u2019s Pukszyn, which is why he needs a city title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/highschoolsports\/\" title=\"Navigate to High School Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High School Sports<\/a>Updated: Oct. 25, 2025, 7:58 a.m.|Published: Oct. 25, 2025, 7:45 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Liberty football hosts East Stroudsburg North on Sept. 25, 2025\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/resizer\/v2\/TTX5RMRH6BGHNHX2ZHNKPPWZSE.JPG?auth=b998f995bfe84edd9a2fa1348a5299e0f80c77a9b9be144b4005c2e1630ffea4&amp;width=1280&amp;smart=true&amp;quality=90\"\/>Liberty\u2019s Jake Pukszyn (5) returns a punt against East Stroudsburg North on Sept. 25.Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7OFJXVBFVFHN7HPPERE2UWTVT4\">Bethlehem football is <a href=\"https:\/\/highschoolsports.lehighvalleylive.com\/player\/jake-pukszyn\/football\/season\/2025-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/highschoolsports.lehighvalleylive.com\/player\/jake-pukszyn\/football\/season\/2025-2026\">Jake Pukszyn<\/a>\u2019s past, present and future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"X7UXEAN5PFGIBJLDZMRYH7J2EM\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/highschoolsports.lehighvalleylive.com\/school\/bethlehem-liberty\/football\/season\/2025-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/highschoolsports.lehighvalleylive.com\/school\/bethlehem-liberty\/football\/season\/2025-2026\">Liberty High School<\/a> senior spent his youth on the turf at Moravian University\u2019s Rocco Calvo Field, where his father, Jeff, served as the head coach for 12 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High School SportsUpdated: Oct. 25, 2025, 7:58 a.m.|Published: Oct. 25, 2025, 7:45 a.m.Liberty\u2019s Jake Pukszyn (5) returns a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-16349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}