Michigan reduces high school football contact to 30 minutes per week

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The Michigan High School Athletic Association is the latest state governing body to reduce the amount of contact during high school football practice. The MHSAA has voted on a new rule that reduces the amount of in-season contact during practice from 90 minutes per week to 30 minutes.

Another change is that teams will get a maximum of six hours a week during the preseason, including scrimmages. Previously, teams were allowed one full-contact practice per day before the season began.

Earlier this year, New Jersey adopted similar rules that are aimed at reducing injuries.

Practice Like Pros, a nonprofit devoted to reducing injuries in youth football, cites studies that say 58% of concussions in high school football happen on the practice field, compared with 4% in the NFL.

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.