Fullerton Junior All American Bears

The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are members of the Orange County Junior All American Football Conference (OCJAAF). Comprised of twenty-nine (29) chapter (city) members throughout the Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties, OCJAAF is the largest youth football and cheerleading organization in the nation. The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are honored to contribute to OCJAAF's diversity, which makes the Orange County Junior All American Football Conference number one in competition. The Fullerton Junior All American Bears are proud to sponsor OCJAAF's core values of "family" and of "community" - the standards that keep OCJAAF and the Fullerton Junior All American Bears a leading youth football and cheerleading organization. Families come in many combinations and we celebrate the word of "family" as meaning: team, the Fullerton Junior All American Bears, community and the OCJAAF Conference. There is nothing stronger than the spirit in the word of family and you will see it and feel it within the Fullerton Junior All American Bears organization and our OCJAAF Conference.

The objective of the Fullerton Junior All American Bears program is to inspire youth, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin; to practice the ideals of health, citizenship and character; to bring our youth closer together through the means of a common interest in sportsmanship, fair play and fellowship; to impart to the game elements of safety, sanity and intelligent supervision; and to keep the welfare of the player and/or cheerleader first, foremost and entirely free of adult lust for glory.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Demias Jimerson, 11, Penalized for Being “Too Good”

Demias Jimerson, 11, Penalized for Being “Too Good”

Can a 11-year-old boy really be “too good” at football?

After watching Demias Jimerson, a sixth grader playing in Arkansas’ Wilson Intermediate Football League, Terri Bryant, the league’s commissioner, says yes.

Following a seven-touchdown performance by Jimerson in a recent game, his league revived an old rule which essentially “tames” the young athlete’s talents, by preventing him from scoring a touchdown if he has already scored three times and his team leads by 14 or more points.

The re-instituted bylaw, known as the “Madre Hill rule,” is named after former University of Arkansas star and Oakland Raider Madre Hill, who, like Jimerson, played youth football in the Malvern, Ark., area.

In his youth Hill proved so adept at getting the ball into the end zone whenever he touched it that the WIFL came up with the rule to try and keep scores from getting too out of hand.

In Demias’ case, the rule is being enforced to help the other fifth and sixth graders on the field develop as football players too, not to punish young Jimerson, says commissioner Bryant.

“The other players on both teams, 21 are just left sort of, this is all Demias,” she said. “So that’s why the Madre Hill Rule has been implemented.”

While most kids (and their parents) would throw a literal fit, if faced with a similar circumstance, Jimerson took the news of the rule like a champ.

“I got, kinda got shocked because I didn’t know that was gonna happen, but it did,” said Jimerson. Adding, “I’m ok with it. I’m gonna run hard and bring our team to victory, but God always comes first, before anything, and grades second.”

Youth league institutes TD limit to hold back 11-year-old

Youth league institutes TD limit to hold back 11-year-old
Cameron Smith - September 30, 2011

Usually we try to celebrate great young athletes and their prodigious potential. In Arkansas, one youth football league is instituting a dramatic rule to hold back its brightest star, all in an attempt to level the playing field for other competitors.

According to Arkansas Fox affiliate Fox 16, 11-year-old Demias Jimerson has emerged as such a dominant running back that the Wilson Intermediate Football League he plays in has reinstated a bylaw called the "Madre Hill rule," which bars him from scoring a touchdown if he has already scored three times and his team has a lead of 14 points or more .

The rule is named after former University of Arkansas star and Oakland Raider Madre Hill , who, like Jimerson, played youth football in the Malvern, Ark., area. Hill proved so adept at getting the ball into the end zone whenever he touched it that the WIFL came up with the rule to try and keep scores from getting too out of hand.

Now it has brought the same statute back for Jimerson, saying that the rule isn't meant to punish him, but rather to ensure that the other 21 players on the field stay involved .

"The other players on both teams, 21 are just left sort of, this is all Demias," WIFL commissioner Terri Bryant, who is also Jimerson's Intermediate School principal, told Fox 16. "So that's why the Madre Hill Rule has been implemented.

"[Jimerson] is going to score almost every time he touches the ball."

It turns out that Bryant's assessment of Jimerson's talent is only a slight exaggeration. In one of the two games the sixth-grader played before the Madre Hill rule was implemented, he scored an incredible seven touchdowns .

For his part, Jimerson said he's OK with the ruling, though he was surprised when it was first implemented. He also knows that when he becomes a seventh-grader in 2012 no limits will be applicable , so it will be impossible to penalize him for scoring too much.

"I got, kinda got shocked because I didn't know that was gonna happen, but it did," said Jimerson. Adding, "I'm ok with it."

Given his current production with a bizarre rule holding him back, the prospect of Demias Jimerson "unleashed" should be a terrifying prospect for any future opponents, both in the WIFL and across the state.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Pop Warner Coach Sells Cocaine During Practice

Pop Warner Football Coach Sells Cocaine During Practice
Buffalo Pop Warner youth football coach Eric Humphrey was arrested for selling cocaine during team practices while running a drug ring. Police said he made cocaine deals in a parking lot while his team practiced on a nearby field. Humphrey coached the midget division team (for 11 to 14-year-olds) of the Buffalo Ravens.

Humphrey and five other men, three of them his relatives, where arrested this week on felony drug-conspiracy charges. Authorities say agents found more than $120,000 in cash in Humphrey’s bedroom.

Humphrey’s team was one win away from advancing to the National Pop Warner Championships at Disney World this past season.

Police said they found a pound of powdered cocaine, 4.5 ounces of crack cocaine and 21 kilogram-sized cocaine wrappers in a “stash house” operated by Humphrey on the East Side.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Pop Warner football coach arrested

Pop Warner football coach arrestedDecember 07, 2000

by Tariq Malik

HUNTINGTON BEACH -- A youth football coach has been stripped of his responsibilities after facing drunk-driving and willful child-endangerment charges in connection with a car accident he and three of his team members were in last week in route to a weekend competition in the town of Needles near the Arizona border.

Barrett Brown, a 35-year-old Pee Wee coach for the city's Pop Warner football chapter, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol after his 1995 Isuzu Rodeo overturned on a rural highway at 6:15 p.m. Friday, five miles outside the California city, authorities said.

Brown's attorney was unable to comment on the case Wednesday due to its preliminary nature.

A Cypress resident, Brown was carrying three boys between 11 and 12 years old destined for a postseason consolation game Saturday in Laughlin, Nev. None of the boys, nor Brown, were seriously hurt in the accident.

"The boys were all wearing their seat belts," said Officer Bill Haney, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol. "Oddly enough, Brown was the only person not wearing one."

Brown and the boys suffered bruises and scratches, and were treated at Needles Desert Communities Hospital and released that day.

Officials with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said Brown was jailed over the weekend in lieu of $1,053 bail for drunk driving, and $100,000 on the willful child-endangerment charge.

San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Joseph R. Brisco, of the Needles office, dropped Brown's cruelty to children bail down to $15,000 in a Tuesday arraignment hearing, where the Cypress man pleaded not guilty to all charges, court officials said.

Brown posted bail Wednesday morning, and is due back to the Needles courtroom for a pretrial hearing Dec. 19.

San Bernardino County Deputy Dist. Atty. Mauri Braun said Brown faces a maximum of five years in jail if convicted, one for each of the child endangerment charges, as well as one year for causing injury while under the influence of alcohol, and another for having a blood-alcohol level above the state's cap of 0.08%.

"This is an abominable situation and our thoughts and concerns go out to boys and their families," said Steven Sherman, president of Huntington Beach Pop Warner. "It's amazing that no one was seriously hurt ... we were very lucky."

At least one of the boys, he added, slipped out of his seat belt and was thrown through the window of the sport utility vehicle after the glass had popped out.

For the past two years, Brown has coached football for boys age 12 years old and younger in the Pop Warner organization, and was representing the city chapter's six team leaders on the agency's board of directors before the accident.

"Obviously, he has been removed both as coach and as a representative," Sherman said, adding that all coaching positions in Pop Warner are voluntary, and until now, Brown has shown himself to be a fair and compassionate team leader.

Pop Warner officials said the city's chapter has zero tolerance for alcohol use, and Brown "broke every rule."

Brown's team was one of five city teams traveling to play in the Saturday football games. His three young passengers were not able to participate, though one was able to attend the competition to cheer teammates on, chapter officials said.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Pop Warner Coach Arrested On Child Porn Charges

Waltham Coach Arrested On Child Porn Charges BOSTON (WBZ) A Waltham youth coach has been arrested and arraigned on charges of child pornography and distributing material of a child in a sexual act.

James Aucoin, 46, has been involved as a Boy Scout leader and as a coach in both Waltham Pop Warner and North Waltham Little League, the Middlesex District Attorney Office said Friday.

Police arrested Aucoin after New Hampshire police conducted an undercover online sting in which an officer posed as a 14-year-old boy. Police said during online conversations, Aucoin sent child pornographic images and videos to the undercover officer who he believed was a 14-year-old boy.

While serving a search warrant on April 1, police said they found numerous images of child porn on his computer.

A judge set Aucoin's bail at $2,000. Should he post bail, the judge set strict rules for him to follow, including that he have no contact with kids 18 years old or younger, no computer access, and he must be placed on a GPS bracelet.

Aucoin has also been ordered to sever all associations with with North Waltham Baseball, Waltham Pop Warner and the Boy Scouts.