The decision was a difficult one to make, but one that third-year coach Tommy Atkinson and the school felt was best.
“I would much rather go and put all my chips in on this just so these groups of kids who have had so many things taken away from them and have had such limited opportunities,” Atkinson said . “I didn’t want them to lose their senior year of football.”
Whittemore-Prescott is still in the process of piecing together a 2020 schedule, but already has four to five games in the works.
The Cardinals are in good company at the 8-player level, as fellow North Star League foes Atlanta, AuGres-Sims, Hale, Hillman, Mio and Posen have all made the move to 8-player in recent years.
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