Lyndonville adds Modified Football

It has been 50 years since Lyndonville High fielded a football team.

In fact, Lyndonville’s last football team was the 1975 varsity squad.

However, that will change this fall as the Board of Education recently approved the addition of Modified ‘A’ Football (for players in grades 7-9) to the Tigers lineup of interscholastic sports teams.

Modified Football will join soccer as the school’s two fall sports for the Tigers boys student-athletes.

“Our goal is to build up our participation numbers and to make sure that both sports succeed,” said Athletic Director Jim Zeliff who notes that a football squad of 22 to 24 players is projected.

“Although this year’s graduating class numbered only 30 our seventh grade class numbers 56 so we are trending in the right direction,” added Zeliff. “The community’s youth football program numbers have been good and our varsity soccer team had a very solid season last fall so we think it is a good time to bring on another sport. We feel both sports can exist simultaneously. Our goal is to make sure that both succeed.”

No schedule has been set for the Modified team but practice for the fall season is scheduled to begin on August 18.