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A high school basketball team scheduled to play the Allen Central Rebels is boycotting the game because the school waves the Confederate flag at sporting events. The team of eight players, including one black student, at the private David School in Floyd County made a unanimous decision this week to boycott the game according to Ned Pillersdorf, an attorney and the athletic director at David School. The players believe that Allen Central High School's displays of Confederate emblems are a form of taunting, which is forbidden by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association according to Pillersdorf. Floyd County Superintendent Paul Fanning said Allen Central and David had a contract scheduling them to play Jan. 19. He has forwarded the issue to the state athletic association.