{"id":14493,"date":"2022-11-21T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14493"},"modified":"2022-11-23T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:06:11","slug":"north-tama-football-opponents-where-are-they-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/north-tama-football-opponents-where-are-they-now\/","title":{"rendered":"North Tama football opponents: Where are they now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTraer Star-Clipper, October 10, 1930<\/em><\/p>\n

North Tama’s discussion about moving down to 8-player football, as covered by the North Tama Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, had much input from the current athletic director, but just as much from a former coach, principal, and superintendent, Tom McDermott.<\/p>\n

For over a year, I’ve had a map of North Tama opponents whipped up, and now’s a good a time as any to serve it. Here is a map of the teams North Tama has played in the regular season since the move to district football in 1992, and their status in the 2022 season.<\/p>\n

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I am not sure how McDermott and I arrived at different numbers of regular-season opponents, especially since I went to a 30-year span and used his website<\/a>. It might be due to reorganizations and sharing. 2020 created some one-off situations plus a none-off: Lynnville-Sully had to cancel<\/a> and West Burlington\/Notre Dame was a last-minute fill-in<\/a> after its<\/em> opponent for the week cancelled. WB\/ND, Alburnett, South Winneshiek, St. Ansgar (as a home-and-home), and Starmont are all opponents only played in the last three years. Ironically, in a move to 8, Starmont will have been the last opponent in the 11-player era. However, Grundy Center will have been the last district<\/em> opponent, and a fitting one: the first Traer-Grundy game was in 1897, then they played every year from 1921-63, and the Spartans shut out the Redhawks in 1988 (twice!) and 2022 on the way to state championships.<\/p>\n

McDermott in the article updated one data point: North Tama this year was the second-smallest school playing 11, but Belle Plaine replaced Le Mars Gehlen as the smallest by BEDS number<\/a>. Only<\/em> these three schools have the option of going to 8 for the 2023 and 2024 seasons based on the cutoff. Belle Plaine, in a school board meeting held the night of the North Tama football discussion, voted to do just that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now that so many schools North Tama’s size around the district have moved to 8, not<\/em> doing so would create its own set of problems. Just please don’t put us in with Don Bosco all the time.<\/p>\n

The school board meets tonight. The deadline for deciding is Dec. 15.<\/p>\n

OMG Mr. McDermott can smile! Only being slightly sarcastic here.<\/h5>\n

NOT AN UPDATE BUT: The North Tama Telegraph<\/em> and Sun Courier<\/em> aren’t showing up on the Iowa Newspaper Association’s map<\/a>, and I have no idea why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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