New Football Practice Policies
March 25, 2014
Last Friday, the MHSAA Representative Council adopted the proposals of the Football Task Force revising practice policies that take effect this fall, helping Michigan schools keep pace with an advancing standard of care – a standard that is reducing head-to-head contact in football practice on every level and in every league.
Michigan’s Football Task Force proposal – the result of four meetings during 2013 and much research and work between them – reduces collision practices to one a day before the first game and to two per week after the first game.
A collision practice is one in which there is live, game-speed, player-vs-player contact in pads (not walk-throughs) involving any number of players. This includes practices with scrimmages, drills and simulation where action is live, game-speed, player-vs-player.
A non-collision practice may include players in protective gear. Blocking and tackling technique may be taught and practiced. However, full-speed contact is limited to players versus pads, shields, sleds or dummies.
The new policies also increase the acclimatization period at the start of fall practice from three days to four days – helmets only permitted on the first two days, helmets and shoulder pads only on the third and fourth days.
Unforgettable 5ive: 2022 Football Week 9
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
October 25, 2022
Five unforgettable plays from the final week of the regular season:
► Cole Cabana scores on a 73-yard run in Dexter's 45-0 win over Chelsea.
► CJ Carr hits Caid Fox for the 40-yard score in Saline's 49-21 win over Lake Orion.
► South Lyon East defeated South Lyon 27-21 behind this Nico Campo-to-Drew Moyer 61-yard touchdown.
► Travis Tucker, Jr. scores on a 72-yard touchdown run in Ionia's 36-7 win over Lake Odessa Lakewood.
► Austin Foerster intercepts the pass, sealing Bay City Western's 37-27 win over Bay City Central.