Gov. Andrew Cuomo addressed interscholastic fall sports on Monday, giving the green light to lower-risk sports, but not high school football.

Sports like soccer, cross country and field hockey with a lower risk of contact are allowed to practice and begin play on Sept. 21, Cuomo said.

However, football can practice but is not authorized to play at this time, Cuomo said, because it is a higher-risk sport. Likewise, wrestling and ice hockey would have to wait, as well, but those are winter-season sports.

“We wouldn’t have played on Sept. 21 anyway, but we’ll still be able to practice,” Glens Falls head football coach Pat Lilac said.

School sports have been shut down since March amid the precautions over the coronavirus pandemic. Winter state playoffs and the entire spring season were scrubbed as schools were ordered closed for the rest of the school year.

Cuomo, in his press conference, said interscholastic sports must follow the state Department of Health guidelines. Travel for practice or play is not allowed “outside of the school’s region or contiguous regions or counties until Oct. 19.”

Considered to be low-risk fall sports by the governor’s office are soccer, cross country, field hockey, tennis, swimming, volleyball and golf.

Football is considered high-risk because of the full-contact nature of the sport and the difficulty in social distancing on a crowded sideline.

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has said it will be working on parameters for the fall season over the next couple of days.

The timetable set by NYSPHSAA and announced by Executive Director Dr. Robert Zayas has the section directors and NYSPHSAA officers meeting within 24 hours, NYSPHSAA’s coronavirus task force meeting by the following day, and NYSPHSAA officers making any remaining decisions the day after that.