Sentences with phrase «young football program»

But when Davenport gets picked in April, it'll be a new milestone for the still - young football program.

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- Providing leadership development for youth and young adults empowering them as coaches and coordinators of Football programs.

«These recommendations are meant to be the beginning of new and expanded programs of research and education that will help to ensure the health and safety of young football players everywhere.»

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

While helmets do not prevent concussions, replacing helmets that have reached or exceeded their useful life is an important step to keep young football players safe, especially as the replacement program will be combined with a strong educational campaign on concussion awareness, proper helmet fitting, and instruction on proper tackling, and receipt of the new helmets will be conditioned on coaches completing USA Football's basic coachingfootball players safe, especially as the replacement program will be combined with a strong educational campaign on concussion awareness, proper helmet fitting, and instruction on proper tackling, and receipt of the new helmets will be conditioned on coaches completing USA Football's basic coachingFootball's basic coaching course.

First featured in the Institute's long - running PBS documentary, The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, the Six Pillars ® program, is designed to reduce the risk of concussions and long - term injury from repetitive head impacts while minimizing the effects of concussion in young female and male athletes.

When the AAP felt youth tackle football had «no place in programs for kids» in the 50's; now in 2015, this is a game so sacred to our society that while, modifying «would likely lead to a decrease in the incidence of overall injuries, severe injuries, catastrophic injuries, and concussions» the AAP can not recommend limiting tackle for young children as «the removal of tackling from football would lead to a fundamental change in the way the game is played.»