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Highlight Reel: Pewamo-Westphalia/Hudson

November 10, 2014

The Pewamo-Westphalia football team defeated Hudson 34-27 in a Division 7 District Final on Saturday. Click the headings below for MHSAA.tv highlights and the final link to watch the game in full. 

Jared Smith Scores Twice In The First - Jared Smith scored two first-quarter touchdowns for Pewamo-Westphalia. Here's the second score on a 9-yard run late in the period.

McDaniel Sets Up Hudson Score - Hudson responded in the third quarter to tighten things up. Shay McDaniel set up the score with this run.

Smith Scores Again - Jared Smith's third TD of the game came at the end of a long third quarter drive for Pewamo-Westpahlia against Hudson. Here Smith scores from nine yards out.

Smith Does It Again - Jared Smith scored his fourth TD of the game for Pewamo-Westphalia on a 64-yard run in the third quarter.

Akers Ties It Up - Hudson tied the score on a 61-yard run by Zach Akers. 

Bauer To Fandel For The Game Winner - With just more than four minutes to play, Pewamo-Westphalia strikes big on a 44-yard pass from Trey Bauer to William Fandel. 

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Football Follies

October 7, 2014

Notice reached the MHSAA office of a so-called “2014 Michigan Youth Football Classic” that invites youth league teams to “a great weekend of youth tackle football.” For $450 per team, youth football teams will bang bodies for two days – Nov. 8 and 9 – with each team guaranteed at least three games. Three!

No level of football but this – for the youngest players who have the most vulnerable skulls – allows the idiocy of three games in a weekend. Most limit competition to a maximum of one game in a week!

In my opinion, this isn’t a football classic. It’s child abuse.

I wish the foolishness would stop there, but even an organization called USA Football seems to have lost its head. Initially and mostly with funding from the NFL, USA Football was focused on teaching youth football coaches and players safe blocking and tackling techniques. Good.

But now this pseudo-national governing body for amateur football is planning events for various age groups that will extend tackle football practices and games throughout what used to be an off-season. Multiple competitions in tackle football are scheduled for high school age players in January, February and July of 2015.

At a time when professional, college, school and Pop Warner football are all reducing contact during practices in-season, USA Football wants to expand the contact experience out of season. It makes about as much sense as three games in a weekend.