The Butler Eagle this fall will publish the POWER POINTS Football Contest, which features a weekly grand prize of $1,000.

Along with other newspapers in the region, the Butler Eagle will publish the contest for 17 weeks, beginning Sunday and then on Mondays thereafter.

In addition to the $1,000 regional grand prize, a $50 gift certificate from a Butler County advertising participant will be awarded each week.

In POWER POINTS, the object is to amass as many of the 136 points each week as possible. Contestants select team winners from each week's list of games, which are mostly NFL games but with some top regional college contests.

Contestants pick their winners and plot them along a weighted point scale according to their confidence to win in them. The highest-confidence pick goes on the 16-point line, and the lowest-confidence pick on the 1-point line.

The regional contestant who tallies the most of the 136 points each week wins $1,000. The local contestant who tallies the most of the 136 points is the winner of the $50 gift certificate.

The weekly deadline for entries is 2 p.m. Thursdays.

To enter the contest, complete the entry form each week and return it to the Butler Eagle's main office at 114 W. Diamond St., Butler, PA 16001.

The first entry form is in this Sunday's Eagle, and the remaining ones will appear Mondays.