football, for the most part, is not as skilled as lacrosse. if your a 5'6" 130# 6th grader in football your on either the offense or defensive line. run into the kid in front of you and take up as much room as possible, and he's very successful. Put a 4'10 85# 6th grade kid against the same 5' 10" kid in lacrosse and the big kid is left in the dust. Add stick skills and awareness to the smaller kid and it's a total wash. Put the same 4'10" kid against an equally skilled 5'5" 95# 8th grader and bad things are going to happen.
Unfortunately some parents cannot face the fact that their kid is unable to compete against his own age cohorts, so they hold the kid back. The irony is they run around claiming parents and kids who are younger need to man up and deal with it, yet they do not expect their kids to man up against children their own age so they have to play with and take classes with younger kids.
I would have some sympathy if the holdbacks were unusually small compared to players of the same age or had learning difficulties instead of pushy parents.
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