{"id":276740,"date":"2026-09-01T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276740\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:08:13","slug":"harriton-high-school-suspends-football-season-after-low-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276740\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriton High School suspends football season after low participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Main Line school has ended its football season days after it began, though there&#8217;s some hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Harriton High School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, suspended its season after the Rams opened with a 53-0 loss to Pottstown.<\/p>\n<p>The school cited player safety and low participation as the reasons for the decision. The team hasn&#8217;t won a conference game in the past 10 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our responsibilty is to provide student-athletes with an experience that prioritizes their safety and well-being while also giving them meaningful opportunities to compete, develop and grow,&#8221; principal Stu Warshawer and athletic director Shawn Albert wrote in a letter to the school&#8217;s football community.<\/p>\n<p>A junior varsity season has not been ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Harriton is one of two high schools in the Lower Merion School District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A petition created last year has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/preserve-lower-merion-and-harriton-high-school-football-let-us-merge?recruiter=12422471&amp;recruited_by_id=34ee8b00-ed91-012f-6613-4040f855b16c&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&amp;utm_medium=copylink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">called for Harriton and Lower Merion High School to merge football programs<\/a> and field one team, but no final decision has been made.<\/p>\n<p>Warshawer and Albert said the district has made a request to the PIAA that would allow the schools to merge football programs.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Main Line school has ended its football season days after it began, though there&#8217;s some hope for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[304,183,185,184,186,200],"class_list":["post-276740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-high-school-football","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}