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Atlantic City-Absegami football game like a carnival on the bay

James Clark

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Twelve-year-old La'quay Reynolds tries his luck at a "strong man" kiosk as Sa'eed Nelson, also 12, looks on Friday night before the Atlantic City-Absegami football game at Atlantic City high school. Both boys play for the Atlantic City Dolphins youth football team.

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Absegami High School football players (from left) J.C. Carr, Faraz Aijaz, Gil Langford and Sampson Jenkins get ready to enter the stadium before the game against Atlantic City on Friday night.

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From left, Atlantic City High School seniors Mavis Salomon-Lowden, 17, and Sara Mangano, also 17, work a 'football toss" booth prior to Friday night's high school football game between Atlantic City and Absegami. Both girls are from Ventnor.

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Saliyah Bey, 17, (left foreground) and other members of the Atlantic City High School cheerleading squad await the start of Friday's football game between their school and Absegami.

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Members of the Atlantic City High School marching band walk from the high school building toward the football stadium just before Friday night's game against Absegami.

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