Thursday was the first day of school at Snider and, out on the football practice field, the first day of full-contact practice.

That combination usually leads to a bit of a mess, Snider coach Kurt Tippmann admitted.

“Kids’ brains are scrambled from being in school all day, they come out here and it’s like they haven’t learned anything. It’s almost like you start from scratch on day one,” Tippmann said. “But the physical part of it, we’re looking forward to it. The older kids, it’s a chance for them to put the physical part of what they’ve developed over the course of the offseason, along with the mental and schematic stuff that we’ve improved on. We’ll get a measurement of that today.”

The veterans at Snider practice know that the first day of full-contact practice means one thing: the

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