No 2021 Kimball Football

Kimball High School’s football season appears to have ended before it started.

The Longhorns were forced to forfeit their scheduled opener at Hitchcock County last Friday due to a lack of players.

And now this.

“We only have nine players out for football right now,” Kimball coach Ben Aarestad said Tuesday. “I don’t think we will play at all this year.  We have lost so many kids in the past few years that it finally caught up with us.”

The Horns were scheduled to play Leyton this Friday, but that seems most unlikely barring the unforeseen.

The Longhorns, a former state champion...