by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

A football adaption designed during the Great Depression will soon come to Machias when Lion of Judah Football launches its first-ever foray into fall youth football with a six-man program.

“It was invented in the west during boom and bust times when towns couldn’t mount large teams,” said Coach Mike Karnas, who 15 years ago founded Lion of Judah football camps as a ministry outreach program.