The Daily Trot

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. 

The school's powder-puff teams also consists of cheer teams, but these were not your average cheer teams. Instead of having a traditional squad with both men and women, the team consisted of all male students. This change provided a comical twist on the original roles students see at traditional football games. 

Powder-puff is largely student-led with limited teacher help. The Student Council organizes and operates the rules and the game itself. There were also volunteer slots for students in concessions and ticket-taking. All students were given the opportunity to volunteer to play in the actual powder-puff game itself.

With new rules, new organization and new roles for students, this year's power-puff game created new and, possibly, lasting traditions.