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When coaches say play to the whistle they don't mean go nail a kid when he has possession of the ball and his knee is down and there's no whistle.
A coach means to block throughout the entire play, don't just stop and stand there and watch them tackle your player.
Or when a pass is made, that is close and the player doesn't realize if its foward or backward he is taught to play the whistle, do everything to get the ball.
Most kids know that when a player is on his knees he is down, when a player has oviously stepped out of bounds he is out and they know theres no point in hitting him.
As for the 11 hats on the ball, exactly what coach above said. It means that everyone is going in the direction to make the tackle. No player is just standing 15 yards down field watching. Like Justmy2cents said it doens't mean he wants "11 spear-jobs on one play"
And at one of our associations we were joking around about going out to a game one day without our whistles. That would have to be a very iteresting game.
[Edited by Snake~eyes on Oct 23rd, 2003 at 11:48 AM]
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