SLC, Katy, Lufkin, Judson fans

[odessapermian.com]

At what age does your town start tackle football? Just curious. We've done it at 4th grade for ever, but last year started with 3rd graders (only playing against other 3rd graders of course). I'm interested to find out how the latest state powers are doing it.





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[KLH75287]

24 mths. old at home in the back yard.... :o

I think 8 yrs. old in organized leagues.

GO PACK IN '05

[Lp78]

In Lufkin its 1st grade. We have 3 different divisions.
Freshmen: 6-8 year olds.
JV: 9 & 10 year olds
Varsity: 11-13 year olds
http://leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=etfl

[XSVRanger]

Around here we have Pop Warner and YMCA. For most that starts around first or second grade.

[Bootsdaddy]

In Lufkin its 1st grade. We have 3 different divisions.
Freshmen: 6-8 year olds.
JV: 9 & 10 year olds
Varsity: 11-13 year olds
http://leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=etfl

This has got to help a lot. For years in Lufkin all we had was flag football through 6th grade. In seventh grade we had a very small amount of coaching in athletics. Kids in Lufkin never played organized tackle football until the 8th grade back in the bad old days.

[NewSherriffInTown]

FYI...


In NY, I started in 2nd grade. The league was a 3rd and 4th grade league though. There are handfuls of 2nd graders that play though. My lil bro just finished up his 2nd grade year and he played last season.

[BigFanSLC]

i know that most kids in southlake when i was coming up started to play pee-wee ball in 6th grade. i played on my first team, Grapevine Dragons, with Scott Chandler QB-ing us. and the bond between the kids growing up also starts through select baseball leagues. They grow up playing together, watching dragon football every friday night and dreaming to play on varsity as seniors and winning championships, just like every kid that grows up in a tradition-rich community. i know my senior year we were a close senior class and it showed the 2002 season. :)

[dragonfootballfan]

i know that most kids in southlake when i was coming up started to play pee-wee ball in 6th grade. i played on my first team, Grapevine Dragons, with Scott Chandler QB-ing us. and the bond between the kids growing up also starts through select baseball leagues. They grow up playing together, watching dragon football every friday night and dreaming to play on varsity as seniors and winning championships, just like every kid that grows up in a tradition-rich community. i know my senior year we were a close senior class and it showed the 2002 season. :)
I was a part of the 2002 season and I remember in 7th grade at one point when not a single team had a won a game we would sit around the locker room and talk about how we were going to win state. I know that many kids don't start football in southlake until 7th grade like I and my brother did. I don't think that it gives any team a big advantage to start before seventh grade in football.

[Red Raiders]

I know its for this thread but Tyler Lee starts like at 6 or 7 I think, I will have to ask some of my friends.

[Lp78]

This has got to help a lot. For years in Lufkin all we had was flag football through 6th grade. In seventh grade we had a very small amount of coaching in athletics. Kids in Lufkin never played organized tackle football until the 8th grade back in the bad old days.

Boots, do you remember the Mickey Mouse helments & the wrap around hip pads in the 7th grade?

[Bootsdaddy]

Boots, do you remember the Mickey Mouse helments & the wrap around hip pads in the 7th grade?

I dont think we even had any equipment at Intermediate. All I can remember is Coach Ross and Coach Simmons giving us positions and going over a little bit of the terminology

[Lp78]

We had coach Florence & Poland in 72-73. We had 2 weeks in pads, other than that it was flag.

[Bootsdaddy]

I was over there in '79-80. I'm sure we didnt have pads but I do remember the flags.I also remember the coldest showers in Texas! Wasnt '72 the first year Lufkin was integrated?

[Lp78]

I may have had the the wrong year. I moved to Lufkin (6th grade) the year before they integrated. Did you play in the LP&R Flag football league. If so, what team?

[Bootsdaddy]

I may have had the the wrong year. I moved to Lufkin (6th grade) the year before they integrated. Did you play in the LP&R Flag football league. If so, what team?


Yep- 4th grade-Razorbacks,5th and 6th grade-Longhorns
In 5th grade Chris Cauley was our QB, and Calvin Curl was one of our rb's. We had some intense games that year with the Cowboys featuring David McPherson at QB (Coach Mac). We all thought we were some bad aces!

[pack0808]

I dont think we even had any equipment at Intermediate. All I can remember is Coach Ross and Coach Simmons giving us positions and going over a little bit of the terminology

yeah the instruction in 7th grade was a joke. i remember being in a complete new world in the 7th grade at dunbar. i went from going to a private school (st.cyprians) until the 6th grade and then going striaght to dunbar. quite a change of scenery that is for sure. :) i enjoyed dunbar although i had a about a fight a month and got into too much trouble. remember those days wide?? i also played flag football up until the 6th grade. i am glad they have started this new league. it is good for the program. i bet outlaw had a lot to do with it.

[Texasfrog]

FYI...


In NY, I started in 2nd grade. The league was a 3rd and 4th grade league though. There are handfuls of 2nd graders that play though. My lil bro just finished up his 2nd grade year and he played last season.

I think Odessapermian asked how many of the local "STATE POWERS" were starting Pee-Wee football ? I'm pretty sure he meant Texas State powers.
I'm sure the boys out in West Texas (Odessa & Midland) dont give much thought to New York.

PS. I'm just busting on ya Wyatt. You know that I have nothing but peace and love for ya. You know that right ???

[Bootsdaddy]

yeah the instruction in 7th grade was a joke. i remember being in a complete new world in the 7th grade at dunbar. i went from going to a private school (st.cyprians) until the 6th grade and then going striaght to dunbar. quite a change of scenery that is for sure. :) i enjoyed dunbar although i had a about a fight a month and got into too much trouble. remember those days wide?? i also played flag football up until the 6th grade. i am glad they have started this new league. it is good for the program. i bet outlaw had a lot to do with it.

Do you guys know what they do at the middle school? Do the 6th and 7th graders play other schools? Just wondering!

[pack4life]

No football for 6th graders except ETFL. 7th graders play NAC like 3 times, a few of them go to play apple springs (which doesn't have football anymore so i don't know what they will do now). Then they play an intersquad
superbowl" game.

[PackAttack2005]

The seventh grade players at Lufkin have played football games with Nacogdoches, Diboll, Alto and Huntington in past years.

[Mr_Clean]

I officiated for a couple of years in south Louisiana in the mid-90s.

On weekends, I'd make extra cash calling the youth leagues. Had teams from junior high age on down to kids who couldn't have been past the first or second grade, because neither team's offense could ever remotely get close to being set prior to the snap.

BTW, I took a lot more verbal abuse from the coaches (and especially the parents) of the junior high leagues than I ever got on Friday nights, LOL.

[Mad Hatter]

i know that we started football back in elementary school it wasnt organized or anything but we played tackle at lunch. I think that tackle football down here in San Antonio starts at about 2nd Grade or so...