by Brooke Brownell and Ruby Schon

This year, Southeast Alamance hosted a Powder-puff game on Tuesday, October 21st to celebrate Homecoming Week. Players were split into teams based on grade level. The rules of the game are failrly simple. On a 40-yard field, the offense can receive passes while the defense can rush anytime on a running play. The defense can also rush on the referee's signal on a pass play with a 3-second delay. Just like in normal football, downs can be achieved, but instead of tackles, players use flag belts. 

Any other rules are similar to flag football, but there is a twist. The teams are all girls, and the cheerleaders are all boys. The only rule for coaches is that they need to be in the same grade as the team they are coaching.

This year, Southeast put a spin on its powder-puff team assignments. Instead of all four class teams, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, Student Council decided to have two teams consisting of freshmen and sophomores square off against juniors and seniors. The rules of the game were still the same, but the game time was shorter, and they had one winner after just one game. (read more)