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Nine-man football is a type of American football played by high schools that are too small to field teams for the usual 11-man game. In the United States, the Minnesota State High School League, North Dakota High School Activities Association, South Dakota High School Activities Association, and Wyoming High School Activities Association hold high-school state tournaments in nine-man football.
Different sections have different numbers of teams depending upon the class and activity in question. For example, most sections in football have 8 teams. In a typical 8-team section, all 8 teams will make the playoffs regardless of their regular season record. If a football section has 9 teams, then the ninth team will not make the playoffs.
Seven-man football formats have seen occasional adaptations, including the semi-professional American 7s Football League and the indoor Fan Controlled Football. Indoor football is played with special rules to accommodate smaller indoor facilities, usually sharing arenas with basketball or ice hockey teams. It is played on a 50-yard (46 m) field ...
All-state football teams released for 11-man, nine-man classes and All Nations Conference. Gannett. Roger Merriam, Watertown Public Opinion. November 27, 2024 at 3:45 AM.
Nov. 27—PIERRE — While the future of South Dakota nine-man football as a two or three-class entity is still up in the air, potential changes to the playoff structure could be on the way. At ...
The Section 9 Football Coaches Association have selected their all-section and all-class teams for the 2023 season. ... All-Section 9 Eight-Man class. Back of the year: Matt Pfister, Pawling.
Eight-man football "Gun Formation" Eight-man football is a form of gridiron football, generally played by high schools with smaller enrollments. Eight-man football differs from the traditional 11-man game with the reduction of three players on each side of the ball and a field width that can be reduced to 40 yards, 13 1/3 yards narrower than the 53 1/3-yard 11-man field.
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...