Yeah actually last year last year in the coaches clinic I attended they showed us how to teach the kids how to hold without it getting called. What you do is put your hands on the edge of the breast plate of the pads. With your thumbs up. This allows the player to wrap his fingers around the shoulder pad which is technically holding but because you are not engaging your thumbs in the grasp it is not holding. Additionally it allows you as Adam said. To do the steering wheel technique.The UNL football research department should try to develop football jerseys with a teflon coating.
True story. Pop Warner was playing a football team with brown jerseys. That team did a lot a lot of fake hand-offs and the brown jerseys made it hard to determine who had the ball because the ball was hard to see against the brown jerseys.
Pop Warner's team had red jerseys. So when Pop Warner hosted the brown team, he painted all of the balls red. The brown team protested, but they lost the protest. There was nothing in the rules about what color the ball had to be.
Yep, in football technological innovation can sometimes help.