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Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In flag football, contact is limited between players.
The Quebec City Monarks (French: Monarks de Québec) are the Quebec City Canadian football team in the Ligue de Football Majeur du Quebec (English: Quebec Major Football League). They have won the regular season league championship as well as the Silver Cup in 2005, 2006, and 2007 since joining the league in 2003.
The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football [liɡ kanadjɛn də futbol], LCF) is a professional Canadian football league based in Canada. It comprises nine teams divided into two divisions: four teams in the East Division and five in the West Division. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football.
Football (pronounced [fʊtbɒɫ] or [fʊtbɑʊ̯l]) Gridiron football: Association football: football canadien / football américain: This usage of football to mean the local code or its closely related U.S. cousin is so uniform throughout Canada that the governing body for association football in Quebec is officially the Fédération de soccer ...
As an organization with no direct jurisdiction over the professional clubs and having become a distinct sport from rugby union by this time, the CRU changed its name to the Canadian Amateur Football Association (CAFA) in 1967. The CAFA changed its name again to Football Canada in 1986. In French, its name had long been Football Canada ...
In the Canadian Football League, the clock is stopped while the officials place the ball, and then they whistle the game clock and play clock to begin in the last minutes of a half; whereas in the National Football League the clock remains running while the officials set the ball (dependent upon the result of the previous play—penalty ...
This is a glossary of terms used in Canadian football. The Glossary of American football article also covers many terms that are also used in the Canadian version of the game. Canadian Football League The largest professional Canadian football league, with 9 teams split into two divisions each (West and East). Canadian Junior Football League