#4 Bruce (5-4) 38; #4 Stockbridge (3-6) 8
#3 New Auburn (7-2) 40; #3 Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah (4-5) 14
#2 Luck (8-2) 49; #2 Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran (7-2) 38
#1 Prairie Farm (8-0) 70; #1 Abundant Life/St. Ambrose (8-1) 14
The return of the reduced-player offering is intended to assist smaller schools maintain football in their schools and communities. The 16 programs playing eight-player schedules this season are Abundant Life/St. Ambrose, Birchwood, Bruce, Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah, Green Bay N.E.W. Lutheran, Luck, New Auburn, Northwood/Solon Springs, Prairie Farm, Oneida Nation, Siren, Stockbridge, Three Lakes, Valley Christian, Wayland Academy and Winter. Schools with a three-year enrollment average of 200 or less are eligible for the end-of-the-season jamboree. All but three schools playing an eight-player schedule this season qualifies for the jamboree. Northwood/Solon Springs, Three Lakes and Wayland Academy each have three-year enrollment averages over 200. The WIAA sponsored reduced-player football prior to the advent of the football playoff system in 1976. There were 78 schools that fielded reduced-player squads in the late 1950s, 72 of which were eight-player teams and six that were six-player. However, that number dwindled to just a few programs by 1969.
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Stiehm Stadium, D.C. Everest Junior High School, 1000 Machmueller Street, Schofield, WI 54476 Map
Parking will be at the stadium and at the high school with shuttle busses to help with transportation from the high school parking lot to the stadium.
EIGHT-PLAYER RULES
GENERAL: Eleven-player rules are used for eight-player football with the following modifications.
RULE 1: Each team has 8 players. The field is 80 yards between goal lines and 40 yards wide with 15-yard side zones. Seven-yard marks, 12 inches in length and 4 inches in width, shall be located 7 yards from each sideline. The 7-yard marks shall be marked so that at least each 10-yard line bisects the 7-yard marks. These marks shall not be required if the field is visibly numbered. If on-the-field numbers are used, the tops of those numbers shall be 7 yards from the sideline. By state association adoption, the 11-player field may be designated as official, and the dimensions of the field may be altered.
RULE 2: The free-blocking zone is a square area extending laterally 3 yards either side of the spot of the
snap and 3 yards behind each line of scrimmage.
RULE 2: The Outside Nine Yard Mark and Between Nine Yard Mark Conferences shall be held outside or
between the seven yard marks, respectively.
RULE 6:K’s free-kick line is its 30-yard line and R’s free-kick line is the 40.
RULE 7: a. At least five A players shall be on their line at the snap and may have any legal jersey number.
b. After the ball is marked ready for play, each player of A who participated in the previous
down, and each substitute for A must have been, momentarily, between the 7-yard marks,
before the snap.
c. Each A player (regardless of jersey number) who at the snap was on an end of the
scrimmage line (total of two) and each A
player who at the snap was legally behind the
scrimmage line (possible total of three) is eligible.
RULE 8: On the eight-player field, the ball is snapped after a touchback and is free kicked after a safety
from the 15-yard line.
RULE 10: The basic spot for a foul as in 10-4-6 shall be the 15-yard line.