To answer your question. No. Football wouldn’t allow it. Neither would soccer, basketball, hockey, baseball. No other team sport boys or girls would allow it.
Also in hockey the best of the best play in many year increments. A friends son (he is 16) plays junior hockey in Canada where the ages are from 16-21 and they are all on the ice together. The age differential is a wee bit different than the 6-15 months we are talking about here. So there is no confusion - I am not coming from a place of having a reclassified son, in fact my son will turn 17 in December of his senior year and he goes to prep school so he plays against older kids. I have told him just to work harder. He will be a better player for it.
Junior hockey is not kids playing down. Its good players playing up.
"Gretzky began skating at age two and a half and was first taught hockey by his father. By age 6 he was playing as an all-star in novice hockey with boys 10 and 11 years old. He progressed through organized age-group hockey, and in 1977 at the Junior World Cup competition, he was the youngest player and the leading scorer. "
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