Category: Youth Tackle

Articles regarding the North Bay Bulldogs Youth Tackle league.

2015 Youth Tackle Championships

bytfl-week8IT’S TIME!!! The Semi-Finals are over. The smoke has cleared and we are ready for the Final games of the season. All the teams have matured, seen defeat and seen glory but we are here to have fun on the last game of the 2015 Youth Tackle League season. Sunday the 25th at Algonquin will be host to:

Game 1 at 11:00 Will feature the never-say-die RoughRiders battling the physical and Stout team of the Stamps.

Game 2 at 12:30 will see the formidable Eskimos taking on the always dangerous Ti-Cats.

Game 3 at 2:00 will be a much heralded rematch from Week 6. The Lions relentless attack and brutal defense against the juggernaut Argos.

2015 BYTFL Week 6

bytfl-week6Hopefully everyone’s enjoying their Thanksgiving. Bulldog’s Youth Tackle Football Week 6 challenge week will be hosted at Omischl Sports Complex Wednesday the 14th.

The 6:00 pm game the Riders will take on the Eskimos. These two never-say-die teams will look to have the crowd on its feet again with their high-octane offense and grinding defense locking horns.

At 7:15 the physical smash-mouth run game of the Stamps will battle with the ever dangerous Ti-Cats who are menacing on both sides of the ball.

The main-event late night game will see the unmovable object Lions battling the unstoppable force Argos in our blockbuster late game at 8:30. ‪‬

Coaches Corner – Bulldog Unity

helmet_grassHi there!

Every now and then at this point of the season I take the time to address our parents and fans individually to remind everyone what our program is about in the midst of the ever improving play of our kids. More and more they are looking like football players and we all get excited.

In the final game of the round robin portion of the season schedule last Wednesday, we continued to see improvements among our kids in the areas of tackling and blocking. It’s this time of the season that we see fans put emphasis on winning. But it’s important to remember what this program is about. “All” players in the league are all on the same team….they are ALL Bulldogs. The fall program’s primary objective is to show kids that are new to the game how much fun it is. The emphasis is on seeing all players have fun developing their football skills far more so than the game’s score.

Parents, fans, coaches and veteran players have a role to play in helping all these new kids develop. If there were no youth Bulldogs program many of these kids would get together at a field and ‘split up into teams’ and play football because it’s fun. Our program is similar but we add some good coaching, teaching some good football skills, team work values and our game days are tests to see how they learned.

Our games are more like scrimmages than games and the real objective is to see all the kids get better and have fun doing so. Believe it or not it starts with parents and fans supporting our objective with the kids. We all get excited and hope our kids and their team does well….that is completely natural. However, it is important to remember that there are no rivalries between Youth Bulldogs teams and we don’t encourage any between these kids, as they are teammates. It’s also important to remember that all these kids are very impressionable young kids 13 years old and younger.its_good_jv

The focus is on learning new skills and executing them, not on who they are playing. This program prepares our kids to be leading performers at high school and in our summer program where we compete provincially. We ask our parents, fans and coaches to help us foster this one team (Bulldogs family) approach as we head through the home stretch of the 2015 season.

Thanks and we sincerely hope you will continue to enjoy watching yours and all our kids develop into skilled football players. Wednesday October 14th we’ve matched up the Eskimos and the Riders at 6 pm and then the Ti-Cats will play the Stamps at 7:15 pm and the Argos will play the Lions at 8:30 pm in the last game under the lights of the year.

See ya on the field
Coach Mathon

2015 BYTFL Week 5

bytfl-week5Bulldog’s Youth Tackle Football Week 5 thunders into life under the lights of the Omischl Sports Complex. With the dust settling from the weekend these games will be paramount. The 6:00 pm game will have the Rider looking to avenge their loss and tame the formidable Lions. In what will be a smash-mouth full-throttle game at 7:15 the physically imposing Stamps will battle the star-studded-juggernaut the Argos. The main-event late night game will see the Eskimos try to take advantage of their momentum and emerge victorious over the excellent ever dangerous Ti-Cats.

Now that I’ve exhausted my adjectives lets get ready for Bulldogs Football.