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Footwear: Football

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. Read more.


 

 

Hydration Essentials

Because children tolerate heat and humidity less well than adults, there may be times when it will be necessary to modify or even cancel practices due to extremely hot or humid conditions. In deciding whether to do so, you should keep in mind the following. Read more.

Resources: Football


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.

Football: Hard Hitting and Popular

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.

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Featured Videos

  • Follow-Up Care For Athletes Whose Concussion Symptoms Persist Or Get Worse
    Dr. Robert Cantu recommends parents seek additional testing and evaluation if their child's post-concussion signs and symptoms do not clear within a week to 10 days or increase in number or severity.
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  • What is a Concussion?
    In layperson's terms, a concussion results from trauma (e.g. usually but not always a blow to the head, face or neck) which causes the brain - a jellylike structure which is normally protected from collisions with the skull by a tough, fluid-filled membrane - to collide with the skull.
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Featured Articles

  • Should Football Helmet Faceshields Be Mandatory For Youth Players?
    Researchers have determined that the two most popular brands of football helmet faceshields can withstand a hit equivalent to a kick in the face and provide that protection without disrupting players' vision.  The faceshields' protective potential bolsters an argument favoring mandatory use of the shields for college-age football players and younger, said Gregory Good, professor of clinical optometry at Ohio State and a coauthor of the study.  Collegiate programs currently do not mandate their use.
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  • Does Playing Contact-Heavy Team Sports Make Boys More Prone to Off-the-Field Violence?

    While the benefits of sports participation are well known, less publicized are the downsides of such participation. A study by researchers at Pennsylvania State University published in the October 2007 issue of American Sociological Review suggests that athletes who participate in contact-heavy team sports, such as football, are more likely to commit violence off the field.

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  • Can technological advances in helmet design reduce the number of concussions in football?

    Concussions are a fact of life in football, regardless of the level - youth, high school, college or the pros. Most of the football helmets currently in use do little if anything to protect brains from the forces that cause concussions. But technological advances in helmet design, while they may not make concussions in football a thing of the past, hold out at least the promise of a significant reduction in the number of concussions.

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