1. Each team is limited to three (3) practices a week
prior to 9/4/06 (The jamboree counts as a practice night). After 9/4/06,
practices will be limited to two (2) a week and must be held on weekdays
(Monday, Tuesday or Wednesdays).
2. Practice times are limited to two (2) hours until
either School District #427 or #428 begins. Once school starts practices
times are limited to one and a half (1.5) hours.
3. Coaches should hand out a practice schedule at the beginning of the
season listing times, dates and locations of all practices.
4. Each player must have at least five (5) team practices to be eligible
to play in a game. Team practices start the last day of Mini-Camp. As
soon as a head coach has called his team together, he should take
attendance and start his first practice. It is the head coach’s
responsibility to take attendance at all practices and make sure this
rule is enforced.
5. KYFL games will consist of four (4) quarters of fifteen (15) minutes
each. Halftime will be five (5) minutes in length. The breaks at
quarters will only be long enough to allow the cheerleaders to perform.
6. To speed up games and to help players line up correctly, each team
will have one coach on the field with both the offense and the defense.
7. A weight limit is established each year for ball carrying. The board,
during Mini-Camp, will establish the weight limit. If a player is over
the ball carrying weight limit, he is limited to certain positions. He
can not play; quarterback, running back, fullback, wingback, split end
or tight end. A player over the weight limit can not advance the
football, but he can recover a fumble or intercept a pass. If that
happens, the play is dead and his team has the ball. As a reference, the
current weight limit is one hundred and twenty (120) pounds. Any
participant over one hundred and twenty (120) pounds can not carry the
ball, but is subject to change if necessary. Any player weighing over
one hundred ninety pounds (190) can only play offensive line. The
official weight is measured during equipment issue or at mini-camp.
8. The field we play on is approximately seventy (70) yards long and
thirty-five (35) yards wide. Because of our short field, no penalty will
be fore more than ten (10) yards. Because of our thin field, we will ask
the grounds crew to build the fields to our specifications, with has
marks closer to midfield.
9. Head coaches are responsible for the conduct of everyone on his
sideline; players, assistant coaches, players’ siblings and players’
parents. Please make sure everyone acts properly.
10. To increase the time for plays from scrimmage, there will be no
kick-off or punt. Kick-off: To start each half and after each touchdown
and extra point try, the ball will be placed on the proper team’s twenty
(20) yard line. Punts: The team selecting to punt will tell the referee,
the referee will move the ball down field twenty-five (25) yards. No
punt may land inside the opponent’s ten-yard line. The ball will be
placed on the ten-yard line.
11. The league has not determined an amount of playing time each player
should have each game. Coaches are expected to work hard at
substitutions making sure playing time is properly distributed.
Assistant coaches can help with this. The focus of KYFL is teaching and
participation not competition. We will use the Illinois High School
Association Rule Book with the following modifications:
OFFENSIVE RULES MODIFICATIONS
Like High School Football, there must be seven offensive players on the
line of scrimmage: center, guards, tackles, tight end and split end.
KYFL adds that all offensive players on the line of scrimmage must start
in a down position, except the split end. No interior lineman should be
standing straight up.
12. The split end can line up in one of two formations. Split formation:
The split end lines up on the line of scrimmage at least eight (8) yards
from the tackle. Tight formation: The split end lines up next to the
tackle; close enough to touch the tackle. The split end is lining up as
a second tight end.
13. The wingback must line up two (2) yards off the line of scrimmage
and two (2) yards outside the tight end (2x2).
14. The offensive backfield must start from either the “I” formation or
the “Split Back” formation. The “I” formation with the quarterback under
center and the fullback and running back behind him in a line
perpendicular to the line of scrimmage. At least four (4) yards behind
the line of scrimmage.
The “Split Back” formation with the quarterback under center and the
fullback and running back in a line parallel to the line of scrimmage.
Lined up in the guard-tackle gap on each side, at least three (3) yards
behind the line of scrimmage.
15. The spacing on the offensive line is very important. Spacing between
the feet of any two linemen playing side by side should be 12 - 18
inches.
16. Blocking directly into the defensive player’s knees is not allowed,
and should not be taught.
17. No offensive player may go in motion.
18. All plays must start with a huddle. All plays must be called in the
huddle, not by the coach at the line of scrimmage.
DEFENSIVE RULE MODIFICATIONS
19. There must be four defensive players on the line of scrimmage when
the ball is snapped, two defensive tackles and two defensive ends. These
four defensive linemen must be in a down position. No defensive linemen
should be standing straight up. These are the only defensive players
that can rush the quarterback on a pass play. Other defensive players
can cross the line of scrimmage, but they cannot enter the area between
the two offensive tackles. If the quarterback roles out leaving the
tackle box, any defensive player can rush. If the quarterback hands off
to another player, anyone can enter the tackle box to rush the passer or
chase a ball carrier.
20. No defensive lineman may line up between the two offensive guards.
Defensive tackles may shoot the guard – center gap, after the ball is
snapped. But under no circumstances should they be coached to “blast”
the center.
21. Defensive tackles must line up head-on, or on the outside shoulder
of the offensive guard.
22. Defensive ends must line up head-on, or on the outside shoulder of
the offensive tackles. Defensive ends must line up inside the tight end.
23. The defensive middle linebacker must line up between the two
offensive guards, at least three (3) yards behind the line of scrimmage,
when the ball is snapped. He can not blitz the quarterback in the tackle
box.
24. Two defensive, outside linebackers must line up head-on or outside
shoulder of the tight end, at least three (3) yards behind the line of
scrimmage. If there is no tight end on his side, the outside linebacker
must be outside the defensive end, at least three (3) yards behind the
line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped. They can not blitz the
quarterback in the tackle box.
25. Two defensive cornerbacks must line up outside the outside
linebackers, at least three (3) yards behind the line of scrimmage when
the ball is snapped. They can not blitz the quarterback in the tackle
box.
26. Two defensive safeties must line up at least seven (7) yards behind
the line of scrimmage, when the ball is snapped. They can line up
anywhere across the width of the field. They can not blitz the
quarterback in the tackle box.
