{"id":484475,"date":"2025-10-09T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:09:11","slug":"edinburgh-cancels-remainder-of-football-season-citing-low-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484475\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh cancels remainder of football season, citing low numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh has canceled the remainer of its high school football season, citing a low number of players and player safety.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh superintendent Jim Halik said the team was down to \u201c12 to 14 healthy players\u201d this week after starting the season with around 20 players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful consideration, due to a limited number of players, the remainder of the Edinburgh High School football season has been canceled,\u201d Halik said in a message to IndyStar on Wednesday. \u201cThis decision was not made lightly. The safety of our student athletes continues to be our highest priority. It\u2019s so hard to at a small school to have enough players for a team \u2026 the decision was strictly based on the safety of the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh was scheduled to play two more regular season games, including a game at Class A second-ranked North Decatur (6-1) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a turbulent season for Edinburgh, <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=\"noopener\">which canceled its homecoming game<\/a> on Sept. 19 after a formal harassment complaint was made to Halik and principal Kevin Rockey by one of the players against two other players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have zero tolerance on any harassment,\u201d Halik said at the time. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what kind or what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2025\/09\/30\/edinburgh-football-player-leaves-high-school-after-racial-harassment-game-canceled\/86418627007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The mother of the player who filed the complaint<\/a> later told IndyStar that her son, a sophomore, was taking classes online after he was sent a video of two teammates saying \u201ckill all n&#8212;&#8212;&#8221; and a Snapchat message warning him not to come to practice because some players were planning to \u201cjump\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p>IndyStar is not naming the family or the student who faced harassment due to concerns about their son\u2019s safety and well-being. The students involved in the video were suspended for 10 days and removed from the football team.<\/p>\n<p>Call Star reporter Kyle Neddenriep at (317) 444-6649. IndyStar K-12 education reporter Caroline Beck contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh has canceled the remainer of its high school football season, citing a low number of players and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[51319,12634,24398,748,1102,94,4884,87727,10704,3462,3611,6584,12,5179,6591,15642,712,79,6924,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-484475","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-high-school-football","16":"tag-high-school-sports","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\/115341778365930403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484475","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=484475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}