The Severn Admirals played the visiting Boys’ Latin Lakers in high school football Saturday. Severn’s Daniel Growney gains 24 yards on a catch and run in the third quarter.

At age 13, Alyshia Walker was captaining a boys’ team, Fauldhouse Foxes, just outside Edinburgh. Scotland’s rules permitted mixed football up to the age of 15.

Boys football coaches, along with the tackle football players, have been helping the girls teams in the spring. In the fall, their time is filled with their own boys' teams.

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Specifically: In the pre-pandemic years of 2018-2020, white boys accounted for 48% of all 12th grade football players. By 2021 – a year into the pandemic – they accounted for 65%.

Even in 2011, when the FA allowed girls and boys to play together at under-12 and under-13 levels, England had one of the lowest age limits for mixed football in the world.