GENERAL INFORMATION

CYO Athletics offers a Cadet Football program for boys in grades 4 through 6 and an Elemental Football program for boys in grade 4.  (See CYO Player Eligibility Rules for guidelines).  Teams are formed from catholic parishes, schools or educational institutions in the Central,  Eastern, and Western areas of the Diocese of Cleveland.   

Boys Football games are played at various fields throughout the CYO service area.  League formation is based upon geography and CYO competition rules (See Bylaw 2-8 for details).  A boy’s football schedule is prepared by the CYO office and mailed to the head coaches. 

 REGISTRATION INFORMATION 

DIVISIONS OF PLAY
Cadet                         6^th grade
Developmental            5^th grade
Elemental                   4^th grade

 TEAM FORMATION 

• See Bylaw 2-8

ENTRY PROCESS 

• A team entry form, $425 Middleweight and Lightweight entry fee, and eligibility request forms must be received from members by the stated Team Entry Deadline August 8, 2008. This fee MUST accompany your manual team entry.  Be sure enter the proper league, Cadet Middleweight or Elemental Lightweight on your parish entry form and/or online.  Click this link to download form Football Team Entry.

• Designees, if you enter your parish teams ONLINE in Sports Pilot, be sure to download this team entry confirmation form  which MUST accompany your parish payment check.  ONLINE team entry check payments MUST BE PUT IN THE MAIL BY August 8, 2008 so we can mark your teams paid in Sports Pilot.

•  Designees and Coaches click here for Team Entry Information Fall Sports Designee and Coaches Letter.  Fall coaches meetings and team fees  info can be downloaded in the links at the bottom of this page.

• Team eligibility rosters with completed pre-participation exam information must be received from members by the stated Eligibility Roster Deadline.  Eligibility Request forms MUST be completed for all out of parish athletes playing on your team and submitted to our office with your team entries.

LOCATIONS

For facility location maps, visit this link http://www.sportsstandings.com/ClevelandCYOAthletics when you open the page, click the MAPS box link (near the top of the page.) Scroll down the list and find the facility you are searching for.

 

DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND

CYO CADET FOOTBALL RULES

The Charter & Bylaws is the governing document for all CYO sports and all member parishes. It should be referred to for statements of philosophy and issues regarding eligibility, eligibility requests, adjoining parish rules, merging parishes to form a team, etc.

CLICK LINKS BELOW FOR PDF FILES OF COACHES HANDBOOK, RULES, CHARTER & BYLAWS:
(DOCUMENTS IN PDF FORMAT REQUIRE ADOBE ACROBAT READER.  SEE LEFT BORDER FOR A FREE DOWNLOAD)

Fall Sports Coaches Meetings

Officials Fees

Cadet and Elemental Football Rules (Revised May 2008)

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