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Show Flag football begins football. There are no pads or blocking. Each participant wears a break-away belt with a flag on each hip and one on the back. Play stops when the belt is removed. Scoring is the same as tackle football. Woodhouse has also set up programs pro-grams for Provo City and at BYU. 'Flag football is a very popular program in other cities' he said. "Flag is exciting to watch as well as play. ' There are presently successful programs running in Salt Lake CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE FARMINGTON Flag football is , coming to Farmington City. Morgan Woodhouse, Farmington City Recreation director, announced that registration for the new program pro-gram will be on June 2 and 4. "Players will hit the field beginning beginn-ing Sept. 4, and games should continue con-tinue through Oct 12. We expect a good turnout,' says Woodhouse. "The kids will have the oppor-. oppor-. tunity to meet others, learn basic football skills with less chance of injury, exercise and get into shape l while having a lot of fun." Flag is a non-contact style of FLAG FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE County, Park City and Murray. All Utah colleges have extremely active intramural programs. The cost to participate is $20. This includes a team T-shirt for each player to keep. Woodhouse is also looking for volunteer coaches. "We'll have a coach's clinic with fundamentals and rules. Time commitment beyond that would be one practice and one game per week," he says. Assisting Woodhouse is a three-man three-man committee. Brent Bishop is chairman, with Nelson Hayes and Conrad Alder serving as committee members. For more information, contact Morgan Woodhouse, 451-0953 or Brent Bishop, 451-7246. |