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Women and girls were playing tackle football not long after the sport was invented in the 1880s, often in educational settings. [1] For over 70 years, however, female involvement in football was reported in the media as a novel "spectacle".
Most leagues in the United States, such as the Women's Football Alliance, play by rules similar to men's tackle football. [1] Although women's flag football is emerging as a collegiate sport, [2] women playing gridiron football at the college level have historically joined men's teams, often (though not exclusively) as placekickers. [3]
In 2014, two years after Sam Gordon's football highlight video went viral, she posed a question at a school assembly she attended, asking which girls would be interested in playing tackle football and reportedly "dozens of hands went up." [9] This interest caused Gordon and her father, an attorney, to look into starting a league of their own.
More than 2,600 girls nationwide play tackle football in high school, according to a 2019 survey by National Federation of State High School Associations.
Tackle football offers children as young as 5 the chance to make friends, learn teamwork, maybe attract a college scholarship. Growing research shows it also can cause injuries that damage ...
Thursday: Thedford brought up an interesting suggestion to have the girls play the exact opposite of the boys’ JV tackle team's schedule. Friday: Play a doubleheader with the boys’ tackle team.
For ten years, play centred in Ontario and Quebec, but the sport quickly spread across Canada and is now played by 50,000 girls internationally. [63] In Canada, ringette is one of the most popular sports played by females and the country regularly records the highest number of annual registrations among all participating nations.
Young people who play tackle football are at greater risk of long-term brain damage. Yet a California bill to bar them from playing is dead. Children can still play tackle football, despite risk ...