The most recent NHIAA football proposal making the rounds isn't five 11-team division next year, but six nine-team divisions. If Bedford decides to go varsity next fall, one division would expland to 10 teams.  

It would allow Div. I to stay intact with the nine teams it has now. It makes sense, since neither Exeter of Bishop Guertin seem willing to move up. The team that would be forced to join Div. I because of enrollment, Spaulding of Rochester, was beaten 38-0 by 0-6 Manchester Memorial in a crossover game.

Div. II would stay intact with one exception. Goffstown, the smallest school in the division, would be allowed to move back to Div. III. Dropping out of Div. III, because of enrollment, would be perennial power Plymouth, which would rejoin rival Laconia in Div. IV. Milford would also be alligned in Div. IV, but could petition up to Div. III to keep playing traditional rival Souhegan.

Hollis-Brookline would move up to Div. III because of enrollment. The plan calls for eight division games and crossover games between Div. I-Div. II, Div. III-Div. IV, and Div. V-Div. VI.

The plan and other plans are likely to be discussed when the football committee meets on Oct. 25.

In a meeting of the classification committee today two schools, Fall Mountain of Langdon and Stevens of Claremont decided to stay were the numbers put them, and will drop from Class I to Class M. Several other school, including Bow and Kearsarge of North Sutton, petitioned up to stay in Class I.