DeKALB – For the second year in a row, Bob and Colleen Walker of Kirkland brought their children to Huskie Stadium on the campus of Northern Illinois University on Sunday to test their football skills at the Punt, Pass and Kick skills competition.

“We have six kids and four of them are here competing,” Bob Walker said. “They have been practicing for two weeks.”

In Punt, Pass and Kick, sponsored by the National Football League, boys and girls compete against their peers in the three fundamental football skills. Established in 1961, the program is the NFL’s oldest youth football program.