{"id":10235,"date":"2018-08-28T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10235"},"modified":"2018-08-26T21:39:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:39:38","slug":"danville-clarksville-not-fielding-own-football-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/danville-clarksville-not-fielding-own-football-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Danville, Clarksville not fielding own football teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danville, near Burlington, forfeited half of its football games in 2016<\/a>. Last year, it did a last-minute deal to participate with West Burlington\/Notre Dame<\/a> (itself one of the weirder sharing setups in Iowa). Despite only having 27 players out for football last year, overall enrollment is too big for the Bears to go 8-player.<\/p>\n

Last school year, Danville looked for a future participation partner \u2014 but neighboring New London is doing 8-player near the upper limit. Danville had to set up a deal with Mount Pleasant instead. KILJ radio covered the December 2017 school board meeting<\/a> when that deal was agreed to.<\/p>\n

(As an aside, New London’s football district area is huge, covering every 8-player school south of I-80 and east of US 63. All of them except<\/em> New London spent time in a district with North Tama in the 2000s, including five of the ten in 2004-05 Class A District 5.)<\/p>\n

Also last December, Clarksville and North Butler<\/a> set up a football sharing agreement.\u00a0This is advantageous to both schools because North Butler had to forfeit some games late in the season<\/a> because of player injuries, and now the combined team will be able to play 11 again, in Class 1A.<\/p>\n

The Clarksville Star story says the team will be North Butler\/Clarksville. That’s right, NBC … while, if they’d done it 15 years ago with Allison-Bristow, it would have been ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danville, near Burlington, forfeited half of its football games in 2016. Last year, it did a last-minute deal to participate with West Burlington\/Notre Dame (itself one of the weirder sharing setups in Iowa). Despite only having 27 players out for … Continue reading →<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10236,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10235\/revisions\/10236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}