Objectives:

- To encourage and increase youth participation in football, cheerleading and dance.
- To ensure a safe and positive playing environment for all participants.
- To instill life-long values of teamwork, dedication and a superior work ethic in the classroom and on the playing field.

Positive Experiences:

- Pop Warner programs have no tryouts or cutting of rosters.
- Everyone participates under mandatory rules of play.
- On-field coaching is allowed for younger age levels.
- Individual awards are given only for academic excellence, not for on-field activities.

Safe Playing Environment:

- Players are matched by age and weight levels.
- There are strict mandatory equipment requirements.
- Pop Warner provides Coaching Clinics and Risk Management Training.
- An enforced national rule book incorporates time-tested rules.
- A full-time executive staff supports all local associations and assists in sound policy creation.

Pop Warner Little Scholars continues to be one of the safest youth sports organizations in the entire country. Our football and cheerleading program is committed to the safety of our participants regardless of age level.

New Hampshire Pop Warner mandates a safety clinic for all of its football and cheerleading coaches on an annual basis. In addition, all football players are placed in divisions that ensure that they will be placed with others that fall within the same age and weight range.

Pop Warner’s unique age/weight matrix is time-tested and is only adjusted at the National level upon review of the injury data from prior seasons. In order for a weight increase to be approved, it must pass a vote through the eight U.S. Pop Warner regions.

All Pop Warner teams in the country play by the same rules and are governed by the National Pop Warner Rulebook.