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  2. Gridiron football - Wikipedia

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    The two sports are also sometimes known as "gridiron football". [1] The name originated with the sport's once-characteristic playing field: the original American football and Canadian football fields were marked by a series of parallel lines along both the width and length of the field, which produced a grid pattern resembling a cross-hatched ...

  3. Early history of American football - Wikipedia

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    The early history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in varieties of football played in Britain in the mid–19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or run over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games.

  4. American football - Wikipedia

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    Time in a football game is measured by the game clock. An operator is responsible for starting, stopping and operating the game clock based on the direction of the appropriate official. [85] [96] A separate play clock is used to show the amount of time within which the offense must initiate a play. The play clock is set to 25 seconds after ...

  5. Football (word) - Wikipedia

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    Outside the nationalist community in Northern Ireland, Gaelic football is usually known by its full name. [citation needed] American football is usually known by that name or gridiron, [38] a name made familiar to a wider British audience by Channel 4, when it showed American football on Sunday evenings in the period 1982–1992. [39]

  6. Glossary of American football terms - Wikipedia

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    gridiron 1. The field of play; a football field 2. A generalized term for American, Canadian, arena, and other related forms of football, especially in contrast with rugby football (rugby union, rugby league) and association football (soccer). See also Gridiron football The word derives from the same root as griddle, meaning a "lattice". The ...

  7. List of gridiron football rules - Wikipedia

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    A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...

  8. Glossary of gridiron football terms - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of gridiron football terms may refer to: Glossary of American football terms; Glossary of Canadian football terms This page was last edited on 19 ...

  9. Minor league football (gridiron) - Wikipedia

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    The first minor leagues period of prosperity or "heyday" [8] started in the 1920s and lasted until the end of World War II.By the 1930s, football was not a fledgling enterprise, but pro football was, as even the National Football League had trouble attracting fans, and was located mostly in the northeastern quarter of the United States.