Gaelic Football Club
During the spring semester of 2007 the idea of a new sport was presented to the school. Ten months later St. Edmund has a fully functioning Gaelic football team. Through the hard work of the players and Coaches Mr. Wagner and Ms. McEvoy the team has gone from the drawing board to the field in less than a year.
Gaelic football and American football have little in common, but it had filled the void created by the lack of a football, and Lacrosse or rugby team. The game is played fifteen on fifteen for two thirty minute halves. The actual Gaelic ball is similar to a heavy soccer ball with the appearance of volleyball. To Move the ball up field a player can pass by either kicking or striking the ball with a closed fist. When running up field a player must bounce the ball off of their foot every four steps or they could alternate ( Not substitute) this with a bounce off of the ground. Point can be scored through an H shaped up-right. The goalie guards the bottom half of the goal, a goal in the bottom half of the up-right is worth three points and a goal though the top half is worth one point. Contact is more intense than soccer, but less that rugby. Gaelic football and hurling are the two largest spectator sports in Ireland. Gaelic football dates back more that seven hundred years and continues to be a part of everyday life in Ireland.
The 2008 Fall season is underway and the team continues to practice in Marine Park.
Photo Gallery
View our Photo Gallery from our first season!