3 HS football games this week forfeited due to lack of healthy players

Teams must have a minimum of 16 healthy, eligible players to participate in games. The first week of the Section 1 high school football season exacted a toll on three programs who came into their openers with limited rosters, forcing Haldane, Croton and Briarcliff/Hamilton to cancel this week’s games. All three will go down as forfeits unless their scheduled opponents find another game. Croton didn’t even make it to the second half of a 23-0 loss to Hen Hud on Friday. While the Tigers had 17 healthy and eligible players at kickoff, they lost three starters to injury during the…