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Junior World Championship (Canton, Jun 27-July 5)

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DaddyBigBucks;1490060; said:
So I type slow...


Seriously though:

0-12 on 3rd down? They didn't fly 3933 miles (Paris to Canton) thinking that it would be a hopeless, pointless exercise in futility.

But they gave up 28 points in the 4th quarter (more than in any other quarter), when the USA team was trying to take it easy on them. That is a thoroughly beaten team.

And it was 12-minute quarters.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say the French aren't very good at things involving violent conflict.
 
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Jaxbuck;1490062; said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the French aren't very good at things involving violent conflict.
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"excuse me?!? sounds like SOMEbody's struttin for a headbuttin"
 
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Electron Boy;1490078; said:
france barely got in the tournament, canada is the #1 seed by virtue of winning a ton of international games. and they aren't bad either, as evidenced by their thrashing of new zealand.
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Oh, I got the wrong French-speaking country... :biggrin:
 
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Electron Boy;1490078; said:
france barely got in the tournament, canada is the #1 seed by virtue of winning a ton of international games. and they aren't bad either, as evidenced by their thrashing of new zealand.
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I would think NZ would be good, from their rugby background. Tackling and what not.
 
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Melanie Klein waves the American flag during opening ceremonies as she sits with her husband Jason Klein of Newark. Their son Storm Klein plays for team USA and is going to OSU.

USA plays pinball with French football team.
By Steve Doerschuk
CantonRep.com staff writer
Jun 28, 2009

CANTON ? .Everyone knows that stereotype about the French treating American visitors rudely, especially in Paris.

A curt ?no no? here. A thumb of the nose there.

When the French came to Fawcett Stadium Friday night, it was bloody noses all around for the visitors, a rip-roaring rude awakening in Canton.

The United States deep-fried France 78-0 in a first-round IFAF Junior World Championship game. A festive crowd cheered when running back David Wilson charged onto the field carrying the stars and stripes, then filleted France?s defense.

Team USA consists of soon-to-be NCAA Division I freshmen. Wilson, a prized Virginia Tech recruit, rushed four times for 93 yards in the first quarter and would have had more if the end zone hadn?t kept stopping him. He scored four touchdowns in 2 1/2 quarters.

?He ran the wing-T in high school,? Team USA Head Coach Chuck Kyle said. ?He had a week and a half to figure out how to be an I-formation tailback. Looks like he figured it out.?

The blocking was robust.

?All we?ve been doing is hitting each other for two weeks,? said Ohio State-bound center Jack Mewhort. ?By the time we got here, everybody wanted to rip somebody?s head off.?
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USA plays pinball with French football team - Canton, OH - CantonRep.com
 
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leroyjenkins;1490085; said:
I would think NZ would be good, from their rugby background. Tackling and what not.
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no doubt rugby is a sport requiring tough, tough players, but really in terms of how it's played the two games are totally different physically. i mean, i watched the majority of these games, and even on the teams that got destroyed it was obvious that they've got athletes. the main problem is that 90% of their kids haven't been playing football long enough to really have any idea of how to use their abilities on a football field.

one of the german kids apparently was playing in his very first or second full football game ever. NZ has only had organized football for like 12 years, so even if every kid on NZ's team had been playing for that entire time, it'd still probably be barely equal to or possibly less than the experience that most of the kids on the US side has had.

i'd love to see American football become a popular international sport, but i don't really see it happening. football eats up a TON of time and money (and space), and on 95% of the planet, if you've got a big field you want to use for a sport, you're gonna use it for soccer, where all you need to play is a ball and some dudes to kick it.
 
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OSU players enjoy playing for USA.
By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted Jun 28, 2009

NORTH CANTON ? .In about a week, Jack Mewhort knows what he?ll be getting into. But the big offensive lineman from Toledo St. John?s High School is soaking in his playing time with Team USA.

Mewhort and linebacker Storm Klein are wearing badges of honor in addition to the red, white and blue Team USA uniforms during the Junior World Championship. They are the two Buckeyes on Team USA, the two players most fans here want to check out.

?That?s something I take a lot of pride in with these games being here,? Klein said. ?It?s cool with my family and all the people who have supported me all the way through being here. I take a little extra out there with me playing in front of them.?

Next month, Mewhort and Klein ? both of whom enrolled early and played spring football with the Buckeyes ? will be back on Ohio State?s campus taking classes and preparing for the upcoming Buckeye football season. But that?s a long way from playing on Saturday afternoons.
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OSU players enjoy playing for USA - Canton, OH - CantonRep.com
 
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