The tiny Coulter-Alexander-Latimer school district, known as CAL, has played its last football game. The numbers were no longer there to support a varsity team, KLMJ Radio reports. (Thanks to Austin Draude for the report.)
The district will be sharing football with Clarion-Goldfield-Dows. Going in with a different area school would bump up that program’s classification and make it ineligible for the 2015 postseason, CAL’s coach said.*
The Cadets had not had any success on the gridiron recently at all. CAL has been winless since October 26, 2007, when it beat Janesville 24-18 to create a three-way tie for last in the six-team district that year. The Cadets have lost all 63 games played since then.
Of the eight districts that comprised Class A District 3 in 2010, two have lost their football teams and two no longer exist.
*Any earlier and I likely wouldn’t have found the last win, because online records before 2007 were 404’d in the IHSAA’s website redesign and even some after that require some ingenuity to find.