Ivy League to Eliminate Tackling from Football Practices

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per Bleacher Report:

Football coaches in the Ivy League unanimously decided to remove tackling from regular-season practices, per a Tuesday report by Ken Belson of the New York Times.

They made the decision in an attempt to further limit players' chances of suffering head and brain injuries.

No tackling in practice is an extreme decrease from NCAA regulations, which state there can be four full-contact practices each week, but it's a decisive stance on a subject that's plagued the game of football. According to a report by Timothy Bella of Al Jazeera in December 2015, there were 501 reported concussions in the past three college football seasons.

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Go Gophers!!
 

Mason eliminated it from games. So who is the real innovator?
 


BleedGopher said:
According to a report by Timothy Bella of Al Jazeera in December 2015, there were 501 reported concussions in the past three college football seasons.
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That seems extraordinarily low given that there were in the ballpark of 10,000 college football games played in the past three college football seasons.
 

This is an interesting development especially coming from the Ivy League. I wonder where this might lead football in general at all levels. For example, I could see a high school conference declaring only “X” days of tackling allowed each week and/or no tackling in practice after the first or second game of the season. Keep in mind that Gags did not allow tackling at SJU and seem to do okay. I’m guessing this is only the beginning of things to come.
 


Most programs and almost all NFL teams don't tackle in practice anyways, especially during the season.
 

Gagliardi was 60 years ahead of his time on this issue. His players were always among the best tacklers in the country with no actual practice. I have to believe this will spread to youth football, high schools, and Division 2 & 3 football in very short order.
 

UpnorthGo4 said:
Gagliardi was 60 years ahead of his time on this issue. His players were always among the best tacklers in the country with no actual practice. I have to believe this will spread to youth football, high schools, and Division 2 & 3 football in very short order.
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My brother played for Gagliardi and said they ran exhaustive plays with no tackling which made them raring to go on Saturdays and actually do the tackling. Seemed to work for Gag - my brother was on two national championship teams.
 

I played high school and a some DIII, and don't recall ever having live tackling during the regular season practices. That was 15+ years ago. Not sure this is as big a deal as it is made out to be.
 



Ivy League to Eliminate Tackling from Football Practices
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In a related story North Carolina has eliminated classwork and tests from several courses athletes are required to take.
 

LC19 said:
I played high school and a some DIII, and don't recall ever having live tackling during the regular season practices. That was 15+ years ago. Not sure this is as big a deal as it is made out to be.
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I'm guessing it is by coach. We did live tackling at my DIII school.
 

Graduated 20 years ago and we never tackled in practice from 10th grade up. We had drills but tackling dummies and extra pads were always involved.

The only live tackling drill was chase the rabbit at the end of practice and that ended when the rabbit's collar bone was broke.
 

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