The Canadian Amateur Football Association has set up a sport research council to act as a coordinating body between grass-roots football problems and professional sports researchers, CAFA executive director Bill Robinson told the recent Coaching Association of Canada seminar on the McGill University Biomechanics and Sport Medicine Clinic and Research team.

“What we do with football is take the practitioner’s problems and construct a priorities list,” said Robinson, who credits the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association with originating the concept. “This list is developed by the coaches, players, athletic therapists, teachers, etc., involved in football.

“The priority list is then given to our Sport Research Council, which is made up of ten sport researchers who are interested in football.”

“Our point of view,” he said, “is to get a problem from the field, let the sport researcher look at it and see if he’s already doing something in that area, or, if he’s not, try to direct the sport researcher into that area.”

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