{"id":6373,"date":"2015-07-21T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2015-07-20T00:12:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T05:12:01","slug":"cal-unable-to-continue-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/cal-unable-to-continue-football\/","title":{"rendered":"CAL unable to continue football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioonthego.com\/cal-football-coach-explains-sharing-decision-6-ndetails-12-13294.html\">KLMJ Radio reports<\/a>. (Thanks to Austin Draude for the report.)<\/p>\n<p>The district will be sharing football with Clarion-Goldfield-Dows. Going in with a different area school would bump up that program&#8217;s classification and make it ineligible for the 2015 postseason, CAL&#8217;s coach said.*<\/p>\n<p>The Cadets had not had any success on the gridiron recently at all. CAL has been winless since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/football\/07_SCHEDULE_RESULTS\/07_wk_9_scores.htm\">October 26, 2007<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Of the eight districts that comprised\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsaa.org\/football\/10_SCHEDULE_RESULTS\/10_8_Standings.pdf\">Class A District 3 in 2010<\/a>, two have lost their football teams and two no longer exist.<\/p>\n<p>*Any earlier and I likely wouldn&#8217;t have found the last win, because online records before 2007 were 404&#8217;d in the IHSAA&#8217;s website redesign and even some after that require some ingenuity to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/cal-unable-to-continue-football\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6386,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/6386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}