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Football fund raising drives toward goal

Hudson-Catskill Newspapers

VALATIE — The last time the Ichabod Crane Central School District had a football team was in 1957, according to Mike Smith, co-chair of the Ichabod Crane Booster Club’s football committee.

At that time, the Martin Van Buren school in Kinderhook was a high school and had an eight-man football team, and the Martin H. Glynn school in Valatie also a high school, but did not have a football team. When the two schools merged, football was dropped.

“We have not played football since,” said Smith.

Smith said he is not sure why football ended. “It’s tough to piece that together.”

However, after more than two years of pressing the Board of Education (BOE) to allow the re-establishment of a football team, the Ad Hoc Athletic Advisory Committee was given the green light at a September board meeting. The board approved a pilot program to be completely community funded for the first three years, as the board was reluctant to go to the tax payers to fund the program.

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