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# McCanns looking to help Winnacunnet football to one more win in D1 title game
- URL: https://www.nh-highschoolsports.com/mccanns-looking-to-help-winnacunnet-football-to-one-more-win-in-d1-title-game/
- Published: 2021-11-20T14:30:42.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-20T14:30:42.000Z
- Description: Jack McCann had just made the biggest defensive play of his high school football career, and moments later, he almost made the worst tackle. The Winnacunnet High School football team was driving, looking for the go-ahead score against Exeter in last weekend's Division I semifinals. That the Warriors
- Author: Joe Marchilena
- Tags: Division I, championship, football, NH High School Sports Insider, playoffs, slider, Warriors, Winnacunnet, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-18 04:44

Jack McCann had just made the biggest defensive play of his high school football career, and moments later, he almost made the worst tackle.

The Winnacunnet High School football team was driving, looking for the go-ahead score against Exeter in last weekend's Division I semifinals. That the Warriors were even in that position was thanks to an interception by McCann near midfield, and just a few plays later, the offense was deep in Blue Hawks' territory.

The ball went to Tucker McCann, Jack's brother, who was looking for a lane to run.

"That play, I was chop blocking, so the guy would just fall down," Jack McCann said. "I see (Tucker McCann is) coming back and I got up to block and he runs almost right into my back, so I almost made a body tackle accidently with my own teammate. Luckily he’s shifty and bounced right off."

Tucker McCann was able to find his way into the end zone, giving Winnacunnet a 21-14 lead that it wouldn't let up to advance to the Division I championship game. The Warriors will kickoff against Londonderry at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Bill Ball Stadium in Exeter.

"It’s very exciting," said Tucker McCann, who had two touchdowns and 151 yards rushing against Exeter. "Last game, we both made some plays. That was crazy in itself. We get one more chance to do that."

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Winnacunnet's Tucker McCann.

The McCanns, who are two-thirds of a set of triplets, will play one final game together in the title game against the Lancers, with Levon McCann, who wrestles and plays on the lacrosse team with Tucker, in the stands, the three of them the youngest of six siblings.

"They are six of the greatest kids you’ll ever meet," Winnacunnet coach Ryan Francoeur said. "(Tucker and Jack) are kids with big hearts, respectful, fun-loving kids. But then they have their own quirky things.

"There are definitely differences between them, but at their core, they’re the same kind of kids. Even being brothers, they bring different things to us. They are unique individuals. We’re really lucky to have them. They’re about as good as it gets just as people."

They started playing football at a young age, but as they got older, Jack McCann grew a little bit faster. As a bigger kid, he started to play as a lineman, while Tucker McCann began to play as a running back.

"When we first started playing, Tucker was always the guy getting the ball and I was always a lineman," Jack McCann said. "Eighth grade was when I started playing linebacker. I was always a little bigger than all the kids and Tucker was always a little smaller. It worked out. Tucker is a lot more coordinated than I am with the ballhandling."

The pair were sophomores when Francoeur took over as the head coach, and while he could see they both had the potential to be varsity players someday, Tucker McCann looked like the one who would get there first.

"The first scrimmage as sophomores, we went to Windham and with the second group in and we had him a free safety," Francoeur said. "He was coming up like we’d been trying to preach for years to get safeties come up. He’s flying up, making the biggest hits as a sophomore. He was still behind other backs in scrimmages, but then when he was in, we were moving the ball. He was breaking it for 10 yards or 15 yards.

"He was about to come up (to varsity). We sent him to a scrimmage at Portsmouth, and I almost didn’t send him, and that’s where he got hurt and we lost him for the year."

That same season, Jack McCann found himself second on the varsity depth chart at both center and inside linebacker. Three games into the season, he was bumped up into the starting lineup on defense, and by junior year, was a starter on both sides of the ball.

Meanwhile, Tucker McCann has become the lead running back for the Warriors over the last two season, rushing for 1,262 yards and 13 touchdowns, as Winnacunnet has rushed for over three thousand yards as a team.

"I think our team, we really bonded," Tucker McCann said. "We all went to the field during the summer. We all lifted together. We’re very close to each other. I think that’s key to our success right now."

The McCanns are one of three sets of brothers - Kyle and Kevin Tilley and Zachary and Jacob Fredericks are the others - and Francoeur believes that has helped the Warriors come together as more than just a football team.

"These kids on their own kind of made this a family atmosphere, even though we preach it, with how they interact with each other," the coach said. "I think Tucker and Jack kind of lead that charge because they are two of the biggest names for us.

"Six starters who are never going to play football together again after this day. When you have three groups of brothers who are as good as they are, you’re going to have to rip their heart out to get it done."