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A College Started a Tackle Football Team. For Little Guys.
NY Times ^ | November 8, 2018 | Kevin Armstrong

Posted on 11/09/2018 6:39:03 AM PST by C19fan

In much of the United States, this is an era of disappearing tackle football programs.

Tightening budgets and concerns about safety and liability have combined to spell the end of football at colleges like Hofstra in Hempstead, N.Y., and St. Mary’s College of California.

Then there is St. Thomas Aquinas, a 65-year-old college founded by Dominican nuns, which is currently running a counter play. It started a football program this season instead of ending one. The move, part of a strategy to increase male enrollment, not really one to compete for gridiron glory, came with a wrinkle: At St. Thomas Aquinas, students would compete in sprint football, in which the players cannot weigh more than 178 pounds.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: football
Other schools have Sprint football teams including West Point.
1 posted on 11/09/2018 6:39:03 AM PST by C19fan
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Makes sense. Like six foot and under b-ball.

Top level athletes are freakishly large.


2 posted on 11/09/2018 6:42:07 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

Rudy!


3 posted on 11/09/2018 6:43:09 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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When I was at Cornell in the 70’s there was a 150 football team. Not sure if that was the official name but it’s what everyone called it. I knew several guys who were on it.


4 posted on 11/09/2018 6:43:27 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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5 posted on 11/09/2018 6:45:13 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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I’ve seen a couple sprint games (tv) and they’re great fun.
Almost like a real sport again !


6 posted on 11/09/2018 6:45:42 AM PST by tomkat
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To: BenLurkin

... or lightweight crew (under 155 lb, IIRC).


7 posted on 11/09/2018 6:58:22 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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Until some team they go up against have players all over 250 lbs, who are self-identifying as slim that day.


8 posted on 11/09/2018 7:02:08 AM PST by NEMDF
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Short football players?

Less injuries because they’re already closer to the ground when tackled!


9 posted on 11/09/2018 7:24:16 AM PST by moovova
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Years ago colleges used to have “150s”, football for smaller players.


10 posted on 11/09/2018 7:57:03 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Years ago colleges used to have “150s”, football for smaller players.

Man I wish that would have been true even in middle and high school. I loved playing football, but alas, I was maybe 100 lbs soaking wet. Pop Warner ball had a 140 lb limit my last year and I got clobbered over and over again. Went to the hospital twice that year. It was probably the saddest day of my fathers life at the time to look me in the eyes and say "son you can't play football anymore or you are going to get hurt bad". So, I switched to golf and got a scholarship.

11 posted on 11/09/2018 8:19:45 AM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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We called them the 150lb football team at Navy...but that was waaaaaaay back in the 1980s. Hadn’t heard the term Sprint before. Had a roommate on the team. Lot of fun to watch.


12 posted on 11/09/2018 9:39:56 AM PST by reed13k
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