Football Remains America’s Most Popular High School Sport
By TERENCE P. JEFFREY There were 436,465 American high school boys who played soccer in the 2021-2022 school year and 481,004 who played baseball.More than half a million — 521,616 to be precise — played basketball, while 569,262 competed in track and field.These participation numbers made soccer, baseball, basketball, and track among the most popular sports in which American high school boys chose to compete in that school year.But 11-man tackle football beat them all.In the 2021-22 school year, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, 973,792 American high school boys played that game — making it by far the most popular high school sport when measured by the number of students who participated in it.(The most…Continue Reading