Football's Back!

By: Matthew C Davis

Football's back in 6th grade! On April 26th, at recess, we got the nice surprise of being able to play football. 

Mr. Ketchum was waiting for us to get outside. All the footballers met Mr. Ketchum in the new field for football. He explained all the new rules then we started playing.

Kevin Foley said, “Football's fun, but I dislike the new rules.”
The new rules for 6th grade football are pretty different.
1.No contact
2.Flags not 2-hand touch
3.Ten yards for one first down
4.Only five players on each team
5.Others will be subs
6.Subs go in after every four plays

The reason we lost football in the first place was because we played too hard and tackled. After that, some students met with Mr. Elder and Mr. West. They told Mrs. Ketchum to have students write out some new rules and she would show them at the teachers meeting.  The other 6th grade teachers accepted the rules. The next day in class Mrs. Ketchem told us that after the upcoming April vacation, we could play football at recess.
Eli Rokes said, “ It was worth the effort!” If we follow the rules, we can all keep playing.

To this day, I play football just like 10 to 20 others!