Rookie football players from five nine-man football teams in the area took to the field at Glenn Hall Park in Humboldt on September 24.
While temperatures soared into the high 20s and low 30s, these young players got valuable on-field experience at Humboldt's Junior Football Jamboree.
"The Rookie Jamboree is designed to develop Grade 9 and 10 football players who otherwise may not get a chance to see as many game-like situations," noted Dave Rowe, one of Humboldt Collegiate Institute's (HCI) football coaches.
The day promoted football as a sport in the community, he added.
"Athletes in Grades 7 and 8 who are nearing high school competition can see friends and players from their elementary school enjoy as well as excel in the sport," he noted.
This year, teams from Clavet, Delisle, Melville, Watrous and Humboldt competed at the Humboldt jamboree.
Parents were deeply involved in putting on this jamboree, Rowe noted, as were senior players and graduates, who had an opportunity to give back to the football program by helping to officiate, coach, announce, play music, sell 50-50 tickets, work the canteen, scorekeep and with set-up and clean-up.
"Senior players even act as waterboys to the junior players," Rowe noted.
All of the football coaches are also involved in some capacity in putting on the day's events.
