FELCH — There will be football at North Dickinson this fall, just not varsity football.

An announcement by North Dickinson County School athletic director Rachel Gustafson was posted on the district’s website, https://www.go-nordics.com/, on Monday stating the Nordics’ 2023 varsity 8-man football season had been canceled.

“It is unfortunate that we will not have enough athletes to safely field a varsity football team at North Dickinson for this upcoming 2023 season,” Gustafson said in the post. “We will have enough underclassmen for a JV team but we don’t feel it is safe to pull them up to the varsity level due to safety concerns.

“We are currently working on a new schedule and will let you all know as soon as possible with the changes.”

Head football coach Mike Christian confirmed the news.

“We will have a JV (team) but I only have four upperclassmen that we’re going to play,” he said.