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Updated: HCS Football Open to Madison Players

Tue, Jun 15, 2010

Updated: HCS Football Open to Madison Players

Editor's Note: Since this story was originally posted, the Brookfield School Board voted not to allow its students to play football for Hamiton.

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When the Emerald Knights take the field this fall for their first varity football game of the season, they will have to thank some Madison Blue Devils and at least one Brookfield Beaver for making the season possible.

HCS has opened up its varsity and modified football rosters to players from Madison and Brookfield central schools because there were barely enough local players to allow HCS to field a team. Athletic Director Bill Dowsland said there were 16 players -- the state minimum -- who would play for the varsity squad.

Coach Joe LePage spoke with players from Madison and Brookfield, which no longer field football teams. It looks as though about 19 players from those two school will play on the varsity and modified teams. Details are being finalized.

Dowsland said HCS remains one of the few class "D" school in Upstate New York to field both football and boys soccer each fall. For the past several years, players who had been on the football team switched to soccer, most with considerable success.

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