Small players, big field

Players from the Columbia Youth Football League scrimmaged Saturday morning at Faurot Field
Sunday, September 3, 2006 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 2:42 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
BY Staff

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Kian Pilot looks for running room in his flag league game Saturday morning. This was the first year the flag division teams joined the other CYFL divisions at Faurot Field.

(Photos by LYLE WHITWORTH/Missourian)

All the action Saturday on Faurot Field didn’t happen in the evening.

About 480 players from the Columbia Youth Football League played in scrimmages there in the morning before the Missouri football team took the field for its opener against Murray State.

The youth games were divided into four divisions, including flag, for first- and second-graders; beginning, for third- and fourth-graders; junior, for fifth- and sixth-graders and senior for seventh and eighth-graders. It was the fourth year the league has held scrimmages on Faurot Field, and about 700 youth league fans came to watch.

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Rams receiver Kyle Seiling is tackled short of the goal line by the Packer’s Ross Alexander, left, and Brian Underwood.

This season, participation in the league has grown by about 10 percent, according to Chuck Everitt, the CYFL president, who said many of the league’s players will go on to play football in high school.

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