Football Center

Tackle Football Expert Wanted

Do you know a tackle football coach in your community you think would be an ideal candidate to be MomsTeam's football expert? Send his or her name to info@momsteam.com [9].

Footwear

Whatever your child's position is on the football field or the type of field on which he plays, there are football shoes (called "cleats") specifically designed for him. When helping your child select football cleats, there are two important factors to keep in mind.

Featured Blogs & Forums

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Football Mom 2.0 [12]
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Head Games Movie Review: Most Appreciated My Candor [14]
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Buyer Beware (Part Two): NFHS Has NOT Endorsed Use of Football Helmet Covers As Reducing Concussion Risk [15]
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Texans Celebrate Thanksgiving With the 4 Fs: Family, Friends, Food, and Football! [16]
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From Son Up to Son Down: A Middle School Football Game-Day Diary [17]
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Margaret Stafford Taught NFL QB Matthew To Feel Confident, Not Entitled [18]
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de Lench on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" Feature On NFL's Marketing To Moms and A Little Bit of The Rest Of The Story [19]
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Research Papers and Peer-Reviewed Studies: A World of Difference [20]
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Texas Youth Football and Cheer Program: Ten Ways It Is Walking The Talk On Safety [21]
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CTE: Is The Media Scaring Young Athletes To Death? [22]

Resources

USA FOOTBALL
45 N. Pennsylvania St., Suite 700
Indianapolis, IN 46204
1-877-5-FOOTBALL (1-877-536-6822)
(317) 614-7750
Web: http://usafootball.com/#headsup
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/usafootball

Endowed by the NFL and NFLPA in 2002, USA Football is the official youth football development partner of the NFL, its 32 teams and the NFL Players Association and manages U.S. national teams for international competition. USA Football is an independent 501-c-3 non-profit organization that leads the development of the game through educational programs and innovative resources. USA Football also annually awards $1 million in equipment grants and subsidizes league volunteer background checks.

POP WARNER
586 Middletown Blvd. Suite C-100
Langhorne, PA 19047
(215) 752-2691
Email: pwlsreg@aol.com
Web: www.popwarner.com

Pop Warner Little Scholars (PWLS) is a nonprofit organization that provides 360,000 young people ranging from ages 5 to 16 with over 5,000 youth football and cheer & dance programs in 41 states and several countries around the world. PWLS, founded in 1929, requires its participants to maintain academic standards in order to participate.

Youth football line of scrimmage Football: Pronunciation: \?fut-?bol\
(American) any of several games played between two teams on a rectangular field having goalposts or goals at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking

Football is a team sport combining fierce physical contact (sometimes at high speed) with strategy. The helmets and protective pads players wear do not, and cannot, completely protect them from injury. Despite of, and perhaps because it is such a physically challenging sport requiring strength, agility and speed, football has remained the most popular sport at the high school level, with over a million players. In many communities, high school football serves important social functions and can become an important part a town's identity.

Programs at the youth level are also popular, American Youth Football or Pop Warner being the two governing bodies. Pop Warner is notable for requiring its players to meet and maintain certain minimum standards of academic performance in order to play. Read more. [23]

Featured Articles

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Overhydration Deaths on the Football Field Are Preventable [25]

Continued over-emphasis of "forced hydration" by coaches, athletic trainers and even physicians makes youngsters especially vulnerable to exercise-associated hyponatremia, says an expert on EAH.

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Study Linking Tackle Football Before Age 12 With Greater Risk Of Later Health Problems: Does It Hold Up Under Scrutiny? [26]

A study by researchers at Boston University finding that athletes who were less than 12 years old at the time of their first exposure to tackle football had more behavioral and cognitive problems later in life than those whose age of first exposure to the sport was later has, predictably, garnered a great deal of attention from the mainstream media. In the interest of balanced and objective reporting, we asked a number of researchers and clinicians to review and comment on the study. Here's what they told us.

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No Increased Risk Of Dementia, Parkinson's or ALS For Those Who Played H.S. Football Between 1946 and 1970, Studies Find [27]

Are men who played high school football in Minnesota in the twenty-five years after World War II at increased risk of later developing dementia, Parkinson's or ALS compared with non-football playing high school males? Not according to two studies by researchers at the Mayo Clinic.

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Impact Sensors: A Missing Piece of Head Injury Programs [28]

One way to address the problem of chronic under-reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline, say some leading experts, is to rely less on athletes to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms, or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion, but to use impact sensors as essentially another set of eyes to alert sideline personnel to heavy hits that might cause a concussion.

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S.A.F.E. Clip [29]

A Michigan based company has developed which it claims reduces the g-force impact of one helmet to another called the S.A.F.E.Clip which replaces the plastic facemask clip which comes standard with a football helmet.

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