Cub Scout Flag Football

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Flag Football Belt Loop and Pin
Flag Football Sports Belt Loop Flag Football Sports Pin (line drawing, actual pins are color)

The Cub Scout Flag Football Belt Loop is an option for the Webelos Sportsman activity badge.

The Cub Scout Flag Football belt loop and pin are a part of the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program. Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts may earn this award in a Family, Den, Pack, school, or community setting. Tiger Cubs must be always accompanied by their Adult partner.

1 Belt Loop Requirements
2 Sports Pin Requirements
3 Help with these requirements
4 Notes
5 Related achievements, electives, or other awards

Belt Loop Requirements

Complete these three requirements:

Explain or discuss the simple rules of flag football with your den.
Practice running, passing, and catching skills for at least 30 minutes.
Play a game of flag football.

Sports Pin Requirements

Earn the Flag Football belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:

Layout and properly mark a flag football field at a park or playground.
Explain the difference between defense and offense in a flag football game.
Describe five different positions a player may play in flag football. Name the position that you prefer to play.
During three half-hour sessions, practice the skills of passing, hand-offs, rushing, and running.
Participate in a flag-football clinic.
Consider all the people who make it possible to play a game of flag football. List parents, coaches, team members, scorekeepers, referees, groundskeepers, etc,
Play in five flag football games without incurring a penalty.
Explain and demonstrate at least six football officiating signals.
Attend a high school, college, or community league football game.
Read a book about a football player and tell your den or family about the player's training and work ethics.
Talk with a referee or official of a high school, college, or community football league and learn about the job he or she does at a football game.

The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Guide, 2003 Edition (BSA Supply No. 34299)

Help with these requirements

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Notes

Details on earning a Cub Scout Sports or Academic pin or belt loop multiple times

Related achievements, electives, or other awards

Tiger Cub Scout

Achievement 3G could be met by completing Cub Scout Flag Football Belt Loop requirement 1 and Cub Scout Flag Football Pin requirement 9

Tiger Cub Electives

Elective 35 could be met by completing Cub Scout Flag Football Belt Loop requirement 3 or Cub Scout Flag Football Pin requirement 7

Wolf Cub Scout

Wolf Electives

Elective 20j. and part of 20o. could be met by completing Cub Scout Flag Football Belt Loop requirement 3 or Cub Scout Flag Football Pin requirement 7

Bear Cub Scout

Achievement 15b. could be met while completing Cub Scout Flag Football Belt Loop requirement 3 or Cub Scout Flag Football Pin requirement 7
Achievement 23a. could be partially met by completing Cub Scout Flag Football Belt Loop requirement 1
Achievement 23c. could be partially met by completing Cub Scout Flag Football Belt Loop requirement 3 or Cub Scout Flag Football Pin requirement 7
Achievement 23e. could be met by completing Pin requirement 9

Bear Electives