Christianity was not a requirement to join the team, organizers said, but the players came from their core group of friends.
When the six-game Yankee Collegiate Football Conference season ends next month, team organizers plan to gather high school transcripts, use retired teachers as tutors for standardized testing and send game videos to local and distant colleges hoping to make connections.
At 6 feet 4 inches and 265 pounds, he takes a regular rotation on the defensive line, goes by the nickname Moose and sometimes draws double teams and triple teams, organizers said.
The Indianapolis 500, in its earlier years the dominant sporting event of the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, has declined in stature as a result of decades of internecine warfare among teams, organizers and sanctioning bodies, but still manages to produce a major spectacle for the more than 300,000 fans in attendance.
"Many more people would have been interested," said George Davis, the team's organizer, in an e-mail message.
At 6 feet tall, Davidson was the team's organizer -- the Keeper of All Important Things, Racine dubbed her -- with a Palm Pilot in one hand and a strategy in the other.
A walk-off by the North Korean women's soccer team after organizers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag above the field could have come straight out of the script of "Twenty Twelve".
The team of organizers worked from photographs; from Mr. Szeemann's archives (he died in 2005), which are in the Getty Institute in Los Angeles; and from documents found in the files of the Kunsthalle's library.
The plan moving forward is to build up a team of organizers and focus the new Ignite as a stage for public speaking training.
After a poll was taken indicating that only nine countries would send a bobsled team, the organizers determined that bobsled would be removed from the Olympic program.
