{"id":446384,"date":"2026-09-24T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446384\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:18:11","slug":"north-texas-high-school-cancels-2026-27-varsity-football-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446384\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas high school cancels 2026-27 varsity football seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keene ISD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/keeneisd\/posts\/pfbid0bDyGx3pwpienMBeevNScNXgZgH6XGryEPvjaUUw4nZg7Brp37DVVScfAAWgEXtivl?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZidZkrAiFpyiVCKIjZAgRMmLJG2q4iZCpO9ekNZAMJvQz41fZ_-zkl2R4lYFeEj_NEwBcftM_4nF6DQmWnOsOjE_h3X9z4d5KwUC5Jamu2nhwR3yBwov9FOKwDfQXVTbwRckimGI1vQm_q3e7wnzMsEoBDnGG5Cr_IvwU7eQS1fzUYplLxN&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced on social media<\/a> that it\u2019s canceling the remainder of its 2026 varsity football season as well as the 2027 season, citing low numbers due to injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team was 1-4 to start the season in the midst of its first-ever season of UIL district play. Keene competed in District 6-3A Division I after starting its football program in 2021 and playing an outlaw non-district schedule for five years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/football\/2026\/02\/02\/2026-28-uil-realignment-complete-list-of-dallas-area-football-districts-with-analysis\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before this past realignment<\/a>. The cancellation also includes junior varsity games.<\/p>\n<p>Keene is located approximately 30 miles south of Fort Worth and six miles east of Cleburne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, we are canceling the remainder of our varsity district football schedule due to a high number of injuries and a shortage of healthy players,\u201d the Facebook post read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know how much this impacts our school, coaches, players, and community, and we are truly sorry for the disruption this causes. Canceling games that affect our district partners was not an easy choice, and we deeply regret putting those teams in this position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team was set to play its first-ever district game next week against Palmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keene ISD announced on social media that it\u2019s canceling the remainder of its 2026 varsity football season as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,300,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-446384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brief","tag-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}