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Youth Football on the Web
The latest youth football info, tips, and discussions to make your season a success.
Conditioning Drills for Football – Functional Conditioning
The days of mindless running for conditioning are over. Why not take the conditioning drills for football that you work on everyday and turn up the intensity and length and make it a real conditioning... More
Football Tackling Drills – Backfield Tackling
If you need some football tackling drills, try this one. It is a football drill for ends, outside LB and CB. We refer to this drill for backfield tackling.More
Flag Football Drills – Youth Practice Drills
As a coach for a youth flag football team, I needed to create flag football drills that gave all of my players the chance to play all positions. With just 14 players we had trouble with our guys not g... More
Football Coaching – Offensive Drills & Medicine Balls
This is a football drill to teach the offensive line to keep a wide stance. This football coaching tip also allows the coach to teach them how to keep the low center of gravity and to drive the other ... More
Youth Footbal Coach of the Year Award
Youth Football Coach of the Year Awards Every year we award two coach of the year awards. One is for a coach that has engineered a worst to first or near worst to first turnaround. He has to be using ... More
Banquet Time in Youth Football
Banquet Ideas for Your Youth Football Teams Team banquets or award ceremonies can be a great way to wrap up seasons. There are many ways to do this, here is what worked well for us this season: Two we... More
Clock Management Tips to Win Games
Clock Management in Youth Football Many youth football coaches fail to understand the importance of managing the clock in youth football. When you have average or weak teams, you have to use every lit... More
Football Training Drills – Pocket Protection Drill
One of the football training drills that I use is the pocket protection drill. This football drill also make the team come together as a team.More
Assisting to be a better Head Coach in Youth Football
You must learn how to serve first to be a great leader. I’ve always heard that philosophy but I was not a true believer until this football season in Keller Tx just North of Ft Worth. I moved to... More
2009 Keller Youth Football Season Ended too Early
The 2009 Keller, Texas Select youth football team that I was assisting for as Offensive Line Coach this season, lost its first playoff game a couple weeks back. I’ve been stewing about the loss ... More
Youth Football Conditioning Drills – 4 Corners and Power Hour
When you're coaching a youth football team, the players hate running sprints, as did I when I played. Here are a couple of youth football conditioning drills that work well and make practice fun.More
Football Practice Drills – The Volleyball Drill
Don't let the name of these football practice drills confuse you. We can all benefit from techniques of other sports and apply them to our own needs.More
The Last Practice
Your Last Football Practice of the Season All of us want to make that last practice special for the kids, so they can have a good memory to look back on during the off-season. That goes double for the... More
Coaching Youth Football – Discipline Problems
Naturally, with young players and coaching youth football, discipline problems NEVER arise when: kids are having fun, the team is working hard and everyone is challenged mentally and physically. We fo... More
Game 10 Update
In the last game of the season my 7-8th Grade team beat a very solid and huge Double Wing team 30-12 in a game we dominated from the start. We were ahead 24-0 early in the second quarter in an extra g... More
Football Coaching Tips – Linemen Parachute Drill
This is one of my favorite football coaching tips. I use this football drill when teaching offensive and defensive lineman the proper way to fire out and stay low.More
Game 9 Results
This weeks game results: My 5-6th grade team won 32-14 over a well coached 5-2 Spread team. Scored 4 times on Burst 26G, key the QB or the BB and the Burst 26G is there every time. We made 2 defensive... More
Free Flag Football Drills – Flag Pulling and Flag Tag
If you're coaching a youth flag football team, here are a couple of free flag football drills which your players will like and ask for repeatedly.More
Your Season Ending Youth Football Results
Your end of season results are very important to us. We love to hear how things went for your youth football team, both the good and the bad, what worked and what didn’t work. We put 48 new posts on t... More
Getting Your Youth Football Team “Fired Up”
You hear do much about teams getting “fired up”, many parents seem to like coaches who appear on the surface to get kids “psyched up” before games. While I feel it is important that the kids are physi... More
Game 8 Youth Football Results
My Game 8 Results My 7-8th Grade team won 36-20 against the undefeated league leader. We had just 1 five yard penalty in the game. Grade 5-6th won 35-12 against a very well coached 1 loss team Grade 3... More
Excelling in Bad Weather in Youth Football
Don’t Let Inclement Weather Affect Your Youth Football Team What do you do to lessen the effects of bad weather on your youth football team? Why do some youth football teams play well in bad weather, ... More
Blocking Calls for Offensive Line in Youth Football
I’ve been helping a couple of Ft Worth area youth football teams this season with their offensive line coaching. We’ve installed Rule Blocking and a few blocking calls so the boys can adju... More
More Reps! No standing in line for youth players
Its football season again in Texas. The heat is melting my brain under my Dallas Coyboys Cap, the cow pastures they call practice fields are hard as concrete and my tan is better than it was in Colora... More
Competition is Good for our Youth
I’ve been getting a few emails lately about why certain players start or what is my stance on minimum play rules or we should not let our youth players play for Select / Draft teams because it l... More
Spin Offense Spin Back QB Footwork
I found a video on youtube of a single wing spinner series of footwork for the spinner back. The footwork in the video is very similar to what we use for our QBs in the Spin. We take a shorter first s... More
Blocking Tips for Youth Football Offensive Lineman
My son is making the transition from QB to tight end this season, so he and I have been focused on blocking. He was my best blocking back last year when we ran the Single Wing offense, so he’s a... More
Favoritism in Youth Sports
Since my last favoritism post is the most read and the post I get the most email about, I thought I would try and answer some of the emails in this post. I agree that there is favoritism at all levels... More
Sidelined by Move to Keller, TX
Its been awhile since my last post. In June, My wife accepted a job in Ft Worth TX as a Tax CPA, so we have been packing and moving from Denver to Ft Worth the last two months. We now live in Keller, ... More
Fitting Youth Football Shoulder Pads
My son Bear needs a new set of shoulder pads, so I have been looking at all the shoulder pad possibilities. I found the Football Shoulder Pads site run by Williams Sports Group LLC. They have been sel... More
Free Football Team Websites
Looking for an easy, fun website building tool for your team or league? With eteamz, you can:
- - Customize 50+ fun templates
- - Post schedule & scores
- - Share photos
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