Some advocate 8-man football - Prep Sports - Charleston Daily Mail - West Virginia News and Sports -

Some advocate 8-man football - Prep Sports - Charleston Daily Mail - West Virginia News and Sports -: "That's true for Class AAA and even Class AA schools. But for some schools, like Hannan High in Mason County, the sidelines are sparse.
'The numbers game is always going to be a disadvantage for us,' said Dave Barr, head football coach at Hannan, where enrollment totals less than 150 for grades nine through 12.
The Hannan Wildcats, who stand at 0-9, have played most of this football season with just 13 or 14 players on the entire team.
'It makes practice really difficult because there have been weeks when I didn't have anybody to line up across from,' Barr said.
Barr and several other coaches around West Virginia say there's a simple solution for small schools like Hannan: eight-man football.
Eight-man football is fairly common in rural areas of more than a dozen states, mostly west of the Mississippi River. It's typically played at high schools where small enrollment makes fielding a full team for traditional 11-man football a challenge.
Officials with the state chapter of the National Football Foundation think the concept could work well in areas of the Mountain State and are asking the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission to consider it."