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Tackle football offers children as young as 5 the chance to make friends, learn teamwork, maybe attract a college scholarship. Participation in youth tackle football has been declining for years.
Twelve percent of Black parents of children under 18 said 5 to 7 years old was an appropriate age to begin playing tackle, compared with 5% of white parents and 6% of Hispanic parents.
This reflects the elimination of football at seven Arizona community colleges in 2018; [1] one in Minnesota and one in North Dakota in 2019; [2] and one in Kansas in 2021. [ 3 ] In California, of 114 community colleges in the state, [ 4 ] 67 sponsored a football program under the auspices of the CCCAA, as of November 2021. [ 5 ]
Pop Warner Little Scholars, commonly known simply as Pop Warner, is a nonprofit organization that provides activities such as American football, for over 425,000 youths aged 5 to 16 years old, in several nations. It is the largest youth football organization in the United States. [2] Its headquarters are in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
In early 2015, with the assistance of a few local professional women's football players, Gordon and her father founded the GFL as a non-profit. [12] It is the first known full-contact all-girls youth tackle football league ever. [13] According to the organizers, the league filled up completely just three days after sign-ups began. [11]
According to the New York Times, in 2006, 70% of high school football players were white and 20% were black. By 2018, those figures were 30% white and 40% black. [14] As of 2016, black youth are nearly three times more likely than white youth to play tackle football. [15]
Under bright lights last fall, the Buford Webb football team performed tackling drills and ran sprints. Winning would represent a proud achievement in Gwinnett County, where over 3,200 children ...