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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.

Click this link for the Complete policy and FAQs.

Unforgettable 5ive: 2022 Football Week 2

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

September 6, 2022

Here's a look at our Week 2 "Unforgettable 5ive" from MHSAA.tv and MHSAA media partner broadcasts:

► Rockford's Mac VandenHout finds Brady Thompson for a 59-yard touchdown in a 31-27 come-from-behind win over Muskegon Mona Shores.

► Clarkston's Desman Stephens intercepts a Southfield Arts & Technology last-chance pass, sealing a 62-56 victory.

► Saginaw Heritage's Braylon Isom scores on a 56-yard pass from Ethan Mason. Isom had 289 receiving yards and four TDs in a 69-26 win over Flushing.

► Mason beat Holt 35-12 thanks in part to Cason Carswell finding Tyler Baker for a 53-yard touchdown.

► DeWitt gets revenge on Portland, winning on a 22-yard touchdown pass from Elliott Larner to Bryce Kurncz with 14 seconds left. The Panthers won 39-34.