Beginning this fall, high school football players in Florida will be limited to no more than 80 minutes of live contact in practices per week during the regular season, the Florida High School Athletic Association announced Monday.
The new policy, which defines live contact as “a drill in game-like conditions” and “the only time that players are taken to the ground,” prohibits teams from conducting such drills more than three days per week throughout the regular season and postseason. Teams are limited to 30 minutes of live contact per day and 80 minutes per week under the policy, and cannot …
