USA Today: What will Pop Warner do about alleged bounties? (football played by about 290,000 youths)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2012/09/29/pop-warner-california-team-cash-bounties/1602855/

4:07PM EST September 29. 2012 - On another big Saturday of youth games across the nation, the executive director of Pop Warner football's national organization, Jon Butler, was dealing with accusations that coaches of a southern California team offered cash bounties to kids for knocking foes out of games. Has Butler heard of other such cases in 22 years in his post?

"Never. I've been asked that question several times, and my response to myself is, 'Just when you think you been doing this long enough that you think that you've seen it all. … This is a first for any of us,' " Butler, whose group is based in Langhorne, Pa., told USA TODAY Sports.

Pop Warner, which oversees football played by about 290,000 youngsters, has announced it will hold its own hearing to investigate claims that in the 2011 season coaches of the Tustin Junior Pee Wee Red Cobras offered bounties ranging from $20 to $50 to 10 and 11-year-old players.

The allegations were reported earlier this month by The (Santa Ana, Calif.) Orange County Register, which said one opponent who was the target of a bounty sustained a concussion.

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