The number of youths participating in less common forms of the game - 9-player, 8-player and 6-player football - also fell slightly in the two most recent years available.

Small points out that younger children are injured less often in football than older kids. One reason for this is that differences in body size are not yet great.

A video clip of two young children participating in a brutal football drill has gone viral online, generating a polarising discussion between professional athletes, parents, and members of the public.

Let the children play the game, making sure we encourage before and after the game - during the game let the grassroots volunteers deal with the game. Scottish FA Chief Football Officer Andy Gould: ...

Changing the Game. Changes to how youth football is played have been made over time, with a focus on reducing head impacts, Daugherty said. Several athletic organizations -- including the National ...

When he was growing up in Youngstown, Ohio, Baytown Christian football coach Donald Houser often played pick-up games in the park or on his neighborhood street. The kids called plays in the huddle ...

While stories of scrapped football seasons are becoming more common, the NFHS reports only a small number of schools, 20, scuttled their programs before the 2017 season — from 14,099 to 14,079.

The National Football League “looks remarkably spry at 100 years old,” James Surowiecki wrote for The New York Times last month. “The league remains enormously popular across lines of gender ...

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, the number of high school boys playing 11-man football rose from 886,840 in 1992-93 to 1,112,303 in 2008-09.