New rules for Pop Warner Football

(WTNH) -- The organizers of Pop Warner Football have made new rules to improve the safety of its players.

The new rules are:
1) No full speed head-on blocking or tackling drills in which the players line up more than 3 yards apart are permitted. (Having two linemen in stances immediately across the line of scrimmage from each other and having full-speed drills where the players approach each other at an angle, but not straight ahead in to each other are both permitted.) However, there should be no intentional head-to-head contact.

2) The amount of contact at each practice will be reduced to a maximum of 1/3 of practice time (either 40 minutes total of each practice or 1/3 of total weekly practice time). In this context, "contact" means any drill or scrimmage in which players go full-speed with contact, for example one-on-one blocking and/or tackling drills; down line vs. down line full-speed drills; and scrimmages.

With these changes, Pop Warner becomes the first youth football organization to officially limit contact during practices.

Learn more at http://popwarner.com/