Girls' teams have 12 players on the field; boys' have 10.
Del Rossi was among roughly two dozen male swimmers competing on girls teams this year because their schools do not field boys programs.
There is a clear and unbending hierarchy when planting yams, with women carrying the seedlings to the field, boys digging the holes and older men burying them.
Youth football was played on what is now called Art Sandusky Field, boys as young as 8 learning what it means to block and tackle in a part of the country particularly obsessed with the game.
These include football (boys), wrestling (boys), tennis (boys and girls), basketball (boys and girls), baseball (boys), softball (girls), golf (boys and girls), soccer (boys and girls), volleyball (girls), swimming (boys and girls), gymnastics (girls), badminton (girls), ice hockey (boys and girls), cross country (boys and girls) and track and field (boys and girls).
These include football (boys), wrestling (boys), tennis (boys and girls), basketball (boys and girls), baseball (boys), softball (girls), golf (boys and girls), soccer (boys and girls), volleyball (girls), badminton (girls), cross country (boys and girls) and track and field (boys and girls).
A DVD of the world première, in Royal Albert Hall, has just been released by EMI; the performers include the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, boy choristers from Oxford and Cambridge, and Kate Royal, the label's latest ingenue soprano.
Under the marquee that had been set up in the second sports field, old boy after old boy came forward to shake hands with Father Rector and slap one another on the back in fat-handed congratulation.
Roosevelt also fields girls soccer, girls tennis, and girls volleyball in the fall sports season (August November) along with football, field hockey, boys soccer, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls golf, and cheerleading.
