By Roger Brown
nhfootballreport.com

Mike Law is riding a wave of success, and he's undoubtedly hoping that success carries into this year's Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl.

Law, who was introduced as Vermont's head coach Sunday, has been the head coach at U-32 in East Montpelier for the last 13 seasons. U-32 has made the playoffs in each of the past nine seasons, and won four state championships during that span. His U-32 teams have an overall record of 82-35.

Law, who runs a Wing-T offense, also spent nine years as the head coach at Spaulding High School in Barre.

Vermont will be facing a New Hampshire team coached by Laconia's Craig Kozens, who guided the Sachems to an 11-0 record and the Division IV state championship last season. Laconia is 49-21 since Kozens became the program's head coach.

Kozens spent five seasons as the head coach at New Hampton Prep before accepting the job at Laconia.

This year's Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl will be played Aug. 2 at Dartmouth College. New Hampshire won last year's game 23-20 and leads the series 39-13-2.

Two other newsworthy items came out of Sunday's press conference: The training camp site has been moved from Plymouth State University to Kimball Union Academy, and the 2009 game will not be played at Dartmouth. Dartmouth's Memorial Field will not be available that year because new seats are scheduled to be put in that summer.

The 2006 game was moved from Dartmouth to Plymouth State while an artificial surface was being installed at Memorial Field. No site for the 2009 game has been announced.

The 36-player rosters for each team will be announced in February. Players will report to training camp on July 23.