[calex59]

Rules are rules. I played my Senior year at 16 years old and managed to make hon mention all state in Texas in one of the most competitive districts in the state. I would have loved to have played high school football at 17-19...I just think what I could have done. But rules are for everybody, no exceptions.

Yep, I started school early also and played football as a 16 YO senior, almost a year behind my buddies.

[maica]

My dad started school a year early, made the varsity football team when he still wore ‘knickerbocker’ pants, because his dad did not allow his sons to wear long pants until they were sixteen. One of the worst moments of my dad’s youth was getting off the bus to go into the locker room of a rival school and having the kids laugh at his short pants.

You can imagine how fired up he was on the field, though!
He made the All-Maryland team in his senior year when he was sixteen.