{"id":447094,"date":"2025-09-24T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447094\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:22:10","slug":"edinburgh-football-planning-to-play-friday-after-canceling-game-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447094\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh football planning to play Friday after canceling game last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh High School football team resumed practicing Monday and is preparing to play its home football game on Friday against Switzerland County as scheduled as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2025\/09\/20\/edinburgh-football-cancels-game-as-school-investigates-harassment-milan-homecoming\/86264102007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">school and local police investigate a formal harassment<\/a> complaint involving members the football program. Edinburgh canceled its homecoing game against Milan last Friday due to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh coach Tyler DeSpain, in his seventh season, confirmed in a text message that \u201cwe are practicing this week and are planning on playing as of now.\u201d The individuals charged in the complaint are not believed to be with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Halik, the interim superintendent at Edinburgh, said Saturday that the harassment complaint was filed late on Thursday to himself and principal Kevin Rockey. Halik cited FERPA, a law that protects the privacy of student education records, in declining to discuss the nature of the harassment further but said he was planning to have a compliance officer assigned starting Monday to begin an independent investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have zero tolerance on any harassment,\u201d Halik said Saturday. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what kind or what it is. I think it\u2019s important for people to understand that there are consequences for those actions. Right now, we are still working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh announced the cancelation of the game on Friday afternoon, posting the message \u201cdue to unforeseen circumstances, tonight\u2019s homecoming football game and all related homecoming activities are canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Call Star reporter Kyle Neddenriep at (317) 444-6649.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edinburgh High School football team resumed practicing Monday and is preparing to play its home football game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[51319,12634,24398,748,1102,94,4884,23258,150689,3462,3611,6584,12,5179,6591,15642,712,79,6924,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-447094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-high","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-indiana","16":"tag-indiana-high-school-football","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-local-news","19":"tag-negative","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-overall","22":"tag-overall-negative","23":"tag-school","24":"tag-scotland","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-sports-news","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115256422864359929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}