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Pop Warner football has been around since the inception of the league in 1929 by founder Joseph J. Tomlin as a four-team conference in Northeast Philadelphia. Since then, participation has steadily increased to today's record numbers. Over 240,000 youths participated in Pop Warner-sanctioned football programs in 2004, and those numbers are continuing to grow.

SAFETY FIRST:

Kids compete with kids of similar age and size. Pop Warner is the ONLY youth football program (local, regional and national) that sets and enforces a strict AGE & WEIGHT MATRIX that reduces the risk and reality of injuries.

Did you know that Pop Warner football is safer than soccer? Pop Warner football has 12% fewer injuries per capita among 5-15 year olds than organized soccer in the same age range! (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, NEISS)

 

Tackle Football / Cheer

Age/Weight Division Age Certification Weight Range Coaches
TINY-MITE
(older/lighter)		 5-6-7
No older/lighter		 35-75 lbs
No older/lighter

No Team
MITEY-MITE
(older/lighter)		 7-8-9
N/A		 45-90 lbs
N/A

Reggie Jones

Kevin Bond

Tom Hovis

Donald Lusby

Todd Moore

Darin Simmons
JUNIOR PEEWEE
(older/lighter)		 8-9-10
11*		 60-105 lbs
60-85 lbs

Jon Million

Milton Crenshaw

Jon Lanier

Ed Oxer

Tony Powell
PEEWEE
(older/lighter)		 9-10-11
12*		 75-120 lbs
75-100 lbs

Cornelius Munnings

Dave Ebersole

 

 
JUNIOR MIDGET
(older/lighter)		 10-11-12
13*		 85-135 lbs 
85-115 lbs

Kent Farmer

Bill Nielander

Ron Peeples

Scott Thompson

*The asterisked (*) provisions in each division allow the so-called "older but lighter" player to also qualify. The last year of eligibility falls under more stringent weight restrictions, per above.

A child's age on July 31 is his/her age for the season. A player may gain 1 pound per week after the second game, up to a maximum of 9 pounds.

Weights do not apply to Cheer program. Cheer program follows the above ages only.

 

In Pop Warner Football, there is “an absence of catastrophic head and neck injuries and disruptive joint injuries found at higher levels.”

The injury rate in Pop Warner Football is: 

• less than one-third the injury rate in high school football 
• less than one-fifth the injury rate in college football 
• less than one-ninth the injury rate in professional football

• Pop Warner's age-weight schematic protects younger, lighter players, who do not have higher injury rates.

• Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 12 percent fewer injuries per capita than organized soccer in the same age range

• Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 50 percent fewer injuries per capita than bicycle riding in the same age range.

• Organized football among 5 – 15 year-olds has 74 percent fewer injuries per capita than skateboarding in the same age group.

• Injuries in youth football are normally mild, and older players have a higher injury rate than younger players.