Football is often referred to arsenic the eventual team sport. The crippled requires 11 players connected each broadside of the ball, and adjacent members of the peculiar teams portion to lend successful bid for a squad to win.
But, a high school successful Pittsburgh was peculiarly shorthanded going into their crippled this past Friday. In fact, Westinghouse High School lone had a full of 11 athletes disposable for the game.
While it was tenable to presume the shortage of players would beryllium an obstacle that could not beryllium overcome, the Westinghouse shot squad yet defied the odds.
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Westinghouse High School successful Pittsburgh entered a crippled with conscionable 11 players.
After the archetypal 2 quarters, Westinghouse held a 60-0 pb implicit Perry Traditional Academy. When the teams emerged from their respective locker rooms for the 2nd half, the game's last 2 quarters were reduced to six minutes, respectively. A moving timepiece was besides implemented for the full 2nd half, per the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Westinghouse went connected to cruise to a 68-0 victory.
Westinghouse has a past of winning games against Perry Traditional Academy successful dominating fashion, winning a matchup earlier this play besides by a 68-0 mark.
A radical of Westinghouse players were suspended aft they near the seat "during an altercation past week," according to the Post-Gazette.
Westinghouse High School successful Pittsburgh entered a crippled with conscionable 11 players.
The Post-Gazette offered much details connected the incident, saying the immense bulk of Westinghouse's roster was punished aft "either participating successful a combat oregon leaving the seat during the altercation" during a caller crippled against University Prep — different Pittsburgh precocious school.
"City League powerfulness Westinghouse volition person lone 11 players successful azygous for the contention astatine Cupples Stadium connected the South Side. The remainder of Westinghouse’s 49-player squad has been suspended 1 crippled for either participating successful a combat oregon leaving the seat during the altercation successful past Friday’s Westinghouse vs. University Prep game," The Post-Gazette reported.
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National Federation of State High School Associations argumentation states that "any players leaving the seat country during a combat are automatically ejected from the game," per the Post-Gazette. The federation's rules besides necessitate immoderate subordinate who is successful usurpation to beryllium "suspended for the adjacent game."
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Chantz Martin is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.