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With all the uncertainty that comes with COVID-19 this year, there have already been several cancelations and changes in schedules for Indiana High School Football. AlmanacSports.com is tracking these. Canceled their seasons (5) Hammond Central Hammond Clark Hammond Gavit Hammond Morton Whiting Canceled games Aug. 21 Warren Central at Center Grove (Metropolitan) Wabash at Rochester (Three Rivers) Bethlehem (Ky.) at Providence Bowman Academy at Calumet Delta at Muncie Central Elkhart at Concord Fairfield at Goshen Hammond Central at South Bend Washington Hammond Gavit at Hammond Noll Hammond Morton at Portage Hanover Central at East Chicago Central Jeffersonville at Louisville Fern Creek (Ky.) Louisville Male (Ky.) at Floyd Central Louisville Trinity (Ky.) at Carmel Monroe Central at Hamilton Heights South Bend Adams at Northridge Southside HomeSchool at Indianapolis Shortridge Speedway at Indianapolis Crispus Attucks Switzerland County at Crawford County Aug. 22 Whiting at Hammond Clark Aug. 28 Chesterton at Chicago St. Rita (Ill.) Chicago Mount Carmel (Ill.) at Calumet East Chicago Central at Bowman Academy Gallatin County (Ky.) at Switzerland County Hammond Central at Burbank Reavis (Ill.) Hammond Clark at Lake Station Hammond Gavit at Thornton Fractional South (Ill.) Hammond Noll at Calumet Christian Immaculate Prep (Ill.) at Andrean Indianapolis Tindley at Monroe Central Joliet Catholic (Ill.) at Indianapolis Chatard Lake Central at Hammond Morton Mishawaka Marian at Whiting Mississawana Valley (Ohio) at Union City Owensboro (Ky.) at Gibson Southern Rochester at Knox Taylor (Ohio) at Lawrenceburg Warren Central at Louisville Trinity (Ky.) Washington at Mount Carmel (Ill.) Sept. 4 Calumet at Wheeler Center Christian at Park Tudor Central Christian Academy at Indianapolis Shortridge Hammond Morton at Lowell South Bend Clay at Hammond Central Switzerland County at Trimble County (Ky.) Whiting at Hammond Gavit Sept. 11 Calumet at Whiting Hammond Central at Andrean Highland at Hammond Gavit Lake Station at Hammond Clark Munster at Hammond Morton Osceola Grace at Monticello (Ill.) South Vermillion at Marshall (Ill.) Sept. 18 East Chicago Central at Hammond Gavit (GLAC) Hammond Central at Hammond Clark (GLAC) Hammond Morton at Gary West (GLAC) Phalen Academy at Indianapolis Scecina River Forest at Whiting Sept. 25 Gary West at Hammond Central (GLAC) Hammond Clark at East Chicago Central (GLAC) Hammond Morton at Hammond Gavit (GLAC) Wheeler at Whiting (Greater South Shore) Sept. 26 Oblong (Ill.) at Union (Dugger) Oct. 2 Central Christian Academy at Anderson Prep Academy Hammond Central at Hammond Morton (GLAC) Hammond Gavit at Hammond Clark (GLAC) Indianapolis Cathedral at Louisville Trinity (Ky.) Whiting at Hanover Central (Greater South Shore) Oct. 9 East Chicago Central at Hammond Morton (GLAC) Hammond Clark at Gary West (GLAC) Hammond Gavit at Hammond Central (GLAC) Griffith at Whiting (Greater South Shore) Oct. 10 Model Deaf (D.C.) at Indiana Deaf Oct. 16 Columbus Sycamore (Ohio) at Warren Central East Chicago Central at Hammond Central (GLAC) Hammond Gavit at Gary West (GLAC) Hammond Morton at Hammond Clark (GLAC) Mount Carmel (Ill.) at North Knox Whiting at Boone Grove (Greater South Shore) Newly scheduled games Aug. 21 Hanover Central at Portage (first meeting) Jeffersonville at Floyd Central (non-conference; also play on 9/18) Muncie Central at Hamilton Heights (first meeting) Purdue Poly at Indiana Deaf (first meeting) South Bend Adams at South Bend Washington (city rivals, weren't scheduled to meet in 2020) Wabash at Monroe Central (first meeting) Aug. 28 Andrean at Lake Central (first meeting since 1997) Bowman Academy at Lake Station (first meeting since 2013) Cloverdale at Twin Lakes (first meeting) Indiana Deaf at South Decatur (first meeting since 2005) Knox at Mishawaka Marian (first regular season meeting since 1968; met in playoffs last three years) Monroe Central at Union City (met in 2019 but not scheduled for 2020) Sept. 4 Noblesville HomeSchool at Indianapolis Manual (first meeting) Sept. 11 Highland at Lake Station (first meeting since 2015) Phalen Academy at Princeton (first meeting) Sept. 18 Indianapolis Manual at Scott County (Ky.) (first meeting) South Bend Riley at Gary West (first meeting) Sept. 25 Bowman Academy at Indianapolis Manual (first meeting) Cincinnati LaSalle (Ohio) at Indianapolis Cathedral (first meeting since 1999) Sept. 26 Edwardsburg (Mich.) at Northview (first meeting) Oct. 9 Indianapolis Manual at Indiana Deaf (first meeting since 2017) South Bend Washington at Gary West (first meeting since 2014) Oct. 16 Northwest HomeSchool at Lake Station (first meeting) Hopefully we won't have too many more changes, but if we do, I'll continue to track them and keep an updated list here. Dan

If I'm going to buy and eat Nachos & Cheese at a high school football game a public bathroom better be readily accessible. Just saying.........................

Fine, you don't care for WC's decision, but no need to malign an entire class of Indiana football over your disdain. I can think of several 1A teams who would play anyone on their schedule ... even if they had only 10 players.

Rockefeller (fords) didn't run. Mondale (carters) ran and lost. Bush (reagan) ran and won. Quayle (Bush 41) didn't run in 96. Gore (Clinton's) ran and lost. Biden is running (and will probably win) So out of 3 former vps who ran... only one was elected.. Now a 4th vp is running and he's about to make it 2 out of 4. Not bad odds. It's certainly helping Biden quite a bit.

But, we’re nowhere near as good as where we should be.

Agreed. I'm all for masks/sanitizing/distancing, and also quarantining the ill and isolating older/high risk/pre-existing conditions people. But this lock down thing has to end eventually. Besides a vaccine, which may or may not be effective across the board initially, herd immunity is mother nature's answer to this. It needs to run it's course. Either that or we keep everything locked down indefinitely and the end result of that could be worse than COVID-19 itself. Communities, parents, players need something to offset all this gloom & doom. That thing is H.S. football - IMHO.

Yes how dare they look at actual stats that show influenza is much more dangerous to kids then Covid 19. We need more people making decisions listening to CNN experts and Indy Star columnists instead.

For my buddy Muda.....

We’re doing the best we can grassmole.

Yes, lets continue to cancel every damn thing in life. Its fine to play a week later against another team. But not a week earlier in a scrimmage. The incredible weakness of this country is staggering right now.

I like your QB's game in bball...impressive athlete.

Nice work putting this together.👍👍👍

Apparently not. The SEC, Big 12, and ACC are still moving forward. Props to those conferences. They apparently have more of a spine than the Big 10 and the Pac 12. The Pac 12 doesn't surprise me one bit, but the Big Ten is a head scratcher.

The last democrat vice president is about to be president. The last Republican VP who ran for president won. You are saying?

At least we aren't as bad on Covid-19 deaths as we are in k-12 math and science when compared to the rest of the world.

Which NLC teams will scrimmage Friday night? I'm looking forward to hearing the helmets and pads crunch even if it's from outside the stadium. We are one week closer to starting the season!!! Bring on some football.

I agree they should and it seems common sense. I just was wondering if knowing it would be a question asked would force the issue and eliminate the known/should have known issue. As a coach you know the health status of your team. I would be extremely upset if I got a call Sunday that an OL from Team X got an positive result. Because he played Friday night, our entire Defensive Line is out the next two weeks. He played with a pending result because he wasn’t showing symptoms. That seems preventable. But only if both teams and school corporations have the same policy.

IMO the Big 10 and the PAC canceling their seasons have nothing to with COVID. That is just their excuse they are telling everyone. But it to stop the College Athlete Unity formed by the Big 10 players and the WeAreUnited movement started by the PAC players.

I can't imagine what those kids would do in physical class. In Hamilton County of all places. The worst I had last year when we went virtual, One Of My Students Thought It Was Cool To Start Capitalizing Every Beginning Letter in Every Word.

Agree completely. That is what is being missed by most discussions. The bus ride and locker rooms are probably the most dangerous places for viral transmission.... at least for guys who don’t play in the tackle box. Why add another touch point/close contact when you don’t have to?

Frankly that's his mistake, unless he actually signed some sort of written contract with the institution to that effect. Does a university tell it's scholarship athletes that they will keep them safe from injuries?

So, because we aren’t avoiding one type of contact, we shouldn’t avoid any type? Great logic. You can’t play football without blocking and tackling. But you can play it without handshakes.

So the University of Alabama illegally coerced or forced this left tackle to play?

I wanted Tammy Duckworth but I get why he chose Harris. I don't think Biden will run for re election in 2024...so I see her being the nominee then.. We could possibly see Nikki Haley vs Kamala Harris. He may have lost his Senate race but he helped a lot of down ballot democrats.

I was told only 40 of the 80 players on their roster were at their intersquad scrimmage last Saturday. That's a lot more than a dozen.

In the last two years: Failed senate campaign. Failed presidential campaign. Makes sense he'd be your choice.

“Listening to” and “agreeing with” are not the same thing. The university President and Board are charged with big picture responsibilities ... much greater than the department level view.

Good game.

I am a supporter of an inner city Indianapolis Public School. Parental guidance is the primary weakness with these kids. Without sports these youths will run the streets.

No players are to be injured so trainers won't be needed.

But how will the bro coaches chest bump the players??????

France isn't communist, England isn't communist and Canada isn't communist. They shut down and it seems their slowly getting back to life. They have freedoms like we do. We just didn't treat this seriously sooner.

Or they are just following protocols.. A crap show would be not quarantining anyone.

Teachers Unions Try To Protect Their Monopoly as Parents Flee Traditional Schools: https://reason.com/video/teachers-unions-try-to-protect-their-monopoly-as-parents-flee-traditional-schools/

Kinda like the guy that fell asleep in the drive-through line in Atlanta, then (after overtaking 2 police officers, stealing a taser and trying to run away).......got shot and killed....

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

And I assume no post-game "good game" handslaps by the players and coaches? Interesting how basic good sportsmanship gets thrown out the window in the face of this.

Yes, it's called "life isn't fair" or sometimes "attending the school of hard knocks." It would do today's youth well to learn that.