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The first known recorded history of flag football can be traced to Fort Meade, Maryland, USA, which is now generally accepted as the sport's birthplace. The first national flag football organization, the National Touch Football League, was formed in the 1960s in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1971, the league has had a national championship game. [4]
A traditional football game seemed out of the question since due to the wartime military draft, just 3 men had enrolled for the fall term that year. [2] "A bunch of us were sitting around after gym class and we thought, if we’re going to have Homecoming, we've got to have a football game," said Susie Lowry, who was a freshman at Eastern in 1945.
Since its inception, the IWFFA has traveled to other countries throughout Europe to introduce the sport and start new teams and leagues. In the fall of 1997, the IWFFA brought flag football to Scandinavia by starting the first women's flag football team in Denmark called the: Copenhagen Mermaids. In 1999 the Oslo Trolls (Norway) was formed.
Flag football, long a tradition in schoolyards and sandlots, is hitting the big time at every level of play. California just began its first season of flag football as a girl’s high school sport ...
Well, not conventional football, at least. There will be a flag football game to close out the event on Sunday, which is more or less what the Pro Bowl had become before the NFL changed the format ...
There are several non-contact variants of football, such as flag football. [218] In flag football the ball-carrier is not tackled; instead, defenders aim to pull a flag tied around the ball-carrier's waist. [219] Another variant, touch football, simply requires the ball-carrier to be touched to be considered downed. Depending on the rules used ...
The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved ...
For the 2028 Games, flag football is being considered as a discretionary sport along with lacrosse, squash, cricket, baseball-softball, karate, kickboxing and motorsports, as well as breakdancing ...