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Floral Park practices on a rocky, undersized field

The Floral Park football team practices on a

Photo credit: David Pokress | The Floral Park football team practices on a field that is mostly dirt and weeds. (Sept. 12, 2012)

If Floral Park football's old field was nicknamed "The Rock,'' then its current practice set-up should be called "the pebble.''

With practice on a hard, rocky, uneven patch situated on the rightfield grass of the school's softball field, the Knights conduct their drills around drops and divots, and try at all costs to avoid the no man's land that is the clay dirt infield. The area is about...

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