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1) I refuse to believe that in football-crazed Texas, there are no school teams in Jr. High

UIL competition football in Texas begins in the seventh grade. Every Jr. High/Middle School in Texas has a seventh- and eighth-grade football program. Most schools have multiple teams in Jr. High/Middle School because tons of kids want to play football. Progressively a lot of kids find out the sport is not for them so by the time kids get to high school there are only three teams for all four grades: freshman, JV and varsity.

The Pee Wee League says this kids is too big to play in their league and should play in for his Jr. High/Middle school.

My question to all this is why is the mother against letting her son play for his Jr. High/Middle School?

My question to all this is why is the mother against letting her son play for his Jr. High/Middle School?

For what it’s worth.....

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Elijah’s size hasn’t prevented him from playing football until now. And he and his mother said he’s not ready to go up against kids with years of playing behind them.

“I don’t want to play in school right now because it’s people that’s had experience and I want to get some experience first and then start playing,” he said. “I just want to play because my teammates are my friends. I know them. I don’t want to go play for somebody else I don’t know.”

Coach Marc Wright is protesting the decision. He said there are a lot of seventh graders over the weight limit and they are being allowed to play.

“If they’re over 135 they have to wear a symbol on their helmet, which is the X. So if they’re an X-man they have to play offensive line, defensive line only,” he said.