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This season, Beth Buglione became the first woman to coach a high school football team in Colorado. Buglione leads the Nederland Panthers, who play 8-player football in a community of around 1,500.

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Nick Hehemann of KUSA says while Buglione downplays her own significance, she hopes her career shows what anyone can achieve.

“If you’re someone who is trying to get a job that’s non-traditional, whatever it is, just go for it,” Buglione said. “Because, I took a chance. I applied here, and I got the job. And, I’ve had the best time with these kids.”

Football back in Florida post-Irma

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High school football returns this week in many areas affected by Hurricane Irma. In Broward County, Florida, they’ll play Week 5 as scheduled after the previous two weeks were postponed.

David Furones of the Sun-Sentinel reports the Broward County Athletics Association inspected fields on Monday to make sure they’re good to go.

Palm Beach County will make up its Week 4 games on Monday, Oct. 2. Like Broward and Palm Beach counties, classes resumed Monday at Miami-Dade County schools, but no decision about football games had been made as of Tuesday morning.

Kansas player with spina bifida scores TD

In West Kansas, South Central Timberwolves senior Zach Jellison scored a touchdown in his team’s 53-6 win over Ingalls.

Jennifer Herrera of KWCH12 says Jellison, who has spina bifida, took the field in his wheelchair, and reached the end zone with a little help from cousin Hunter Huck.

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"I brought him in and he had no clue what was going on. He was excited,” Huck said.

South Central coach Billie Dean Nichols said Jellison’s TD was part of a system he has for all seniors.

"Any senior that's never scored a touchdown with me, I've always gotten them at least one touchdown, because all boys dream of scoring a touchdown some point in their life," Nichols said.

Foundation pays fees for more than 50 Kentucky kids 

The Play for Mason Foundation, established in honor of Mason Goodnight, who unexpectedly died at age 10 in April, donated $3,500 so that 52 Warren County Youth Football League players in need could compete without paying league fees.

Jackson French of the Bowling Green Daily News says Mason’s parents – Jef and Janna Goodnight – presented the scholarship-funding donation last weekend.

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“Mason had a love for all sports, and so we have created the Play for Mason Foundation, and with that we are going to give back to the community that embraced us and loved us and showed us so much support for us to be able to carry on every day,” Jef told the crowd.

Replay coming to high school football?

Bob Cook of Forbes and myCentralJersey.com says video replay could make its way to the prep gridiron.

From Cook:

Carmine Picardo, coordinator of football officials for the NJSIAA [New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association], said the statewide athletic association is exploring the possibility of implementing a pilot program in which select schools would voluntarily participate.

Only schools who use HUDL Sideline, a wireless program that allows game action from press box and end zone angles to be instantly replayed on a tablet device, would be eligible.

Picardo said NJSIAA Assistant Director Jack DuBois will be reaching out “in the next couple of days” to the National Federation of High School Associations, whose approval for replay review at the scholastic level is required.

The Alabama High School Athletic Association is in the process of submitting a similar proposal to the national federation, according to AHSAA Director of Officials Mark Jones.

Cook lamented the thought of replay at the high school level, a sentiment likely held by many, especially sports reporters on deadline.