If you’re coaching a [tag]youth football[/tag] team, I’m sure you’re always searching for new [tag]fun football drills[/tag]. Here are two [tag]football drills[/tag] that are great ideas to end practice or to end your season!
About once a week at the end of [tag]football practice[/tag] we split up into teams with about 10 – 12 players on a team. We play on a 40 yard field and have only three downs to score.
We play playground style – all pass with laterals and the [tag]football coach[/tag]es being all time quarterbacks and no rushing the QB. Touchdowns are worth 6 points and interceptions and fumble recoveries are worth 2 points.
With the coaches being the QB we can dictate who gets the passes and we usually try to get it to lineman or players who normally would not get the ball in practice or a game. Everyone gets a kick out it and it’s a fun and competitive way to end practice.
What we do to end the school year is scrimmage our team against the programs 6 and 7 year olds. Sounds crazy, right? Well the catch is that we keep the older kids on their knees!
We only allow our 8th graders to participate in the scrimmage (it’s something that will be sure to have the 7th graders return next year). We usually get a pretty big crowd come watch – the younger kids absolutely love it!
I must say, we’ve been doing this for the past 5 years, and my team hasn’t even come close to winning!
