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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]
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".
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.
Kuan, 38, remembers her mother’s stories about playing football from her childhood. It wasn’t until her late 20s when she discovered some of the struggles her mother and teammates faced during ...
Tackle football has more girls playing than ever before, according to the latest data available (2018) from NFL Football Operations, which showed 2,404 participating in the sport. Also, Chris ...
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.
In 2015, the first known all-girls tackle football league in America, the Utah Girls Tackle Football League, was formed; Gordon was a founding member. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] As of 2019, the league has 446 girls, ranging from fourth grade to twelfth grade, on 24 teams; 35% of the girls are minorities.
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.