The eight teams in the Ivy League will no longer tackle during football practices after coaches voted unanimously to eliminate all full-contact hitting last week.
According to The New York Times, the move will be adopted officially once affirmed by the league's athletic directors, school presidents and policy committee.
This is the most radical step taken by any league towards reducing the contact players take during practice. Ivy League team Dartmouth eliminated full-contact hitting in practice back in 2010 and has been on the forefront of the safety wave with the introduction of a robotic tackling dummy that allows players to still hit but do so without the same dangers of player-on-player contact.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...gue-eliminates-tackling-in-football-practices
This is only the beginning. Soon no more kickoffs, just place the ball on the 25 yd line. Then no more punt rerurns, take the ball at the nearest 10 yd marker of where it went out of bounds, or rolled dead. Or something like that. Then no hitting the reciever while he is in the air. Get the drift?
According to The New York Times, the move will be adopted officially once affirmed by the league's athletic directors, school presidents and policy committee.
This is the most radical step taken by any league towards reducing the contact players take during practice. Ivy League team Dartmouth eliminated full-contact hitting in practice back in 2010 and has been on the forefront of the safety wave with the introduction of a robotic tackling dummy that allows players to still hit but do so without the same dangers of player-on-player contact.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...gue-eliminates-tackling-in-football-practices
This is only the beginning. Soon no more kickoffs, just place the ball on the 25 yd line. Then no more punt rerurns, take the ball at the nearest 10 yd marker of where it went out of bounds, or rolled dead. Or something like that. Then no hitting the reciever while he is in the air. Get the drift?