[cherokee]

Williamsburg is one of the smallest schools to play football. It is amazing that they have 40 players this year. There is about 125 boys in the high school, could you imagine if a larger school gets that type of turn out for footballl. Playing up probably is not a option for Williamsburg, but I believe they have only played one school smaller than they are (Pineville).

Great point PLATFAST; I don't think a lot of people realize how hard it is just to field a team at these small schools. Having 40 players this year is great, but these #'s can change in a hurry, for example our middle school this year only had 3 8th graders on the team and a very small # of male students for the entire class. The 7th grade class had maybe 8 kids and the rest of the team was made up of 6th graders. If everyone of the 8th graders play next year and no new students enroll as freshman, our freshman class will be 3( but one of the stars on that 8th grade team will be moving to WV to live with his dad),the following year maybe 8 to 9 at most that makes it hard to compete. We have been fortunate having 2 large classes back to back along with the last 2 years transfers 6 from Corbin all played on the 8th grade state championship team, 3 from Whitley, 1 from Letcher Central and 1 from Fort Campbell. I remember last year at Allen Central after some injuries we had about 16 kids available for that game.