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  2. History of American football - Wikipedia

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

  3. Pro Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The 2023 Pro Bowl introduced a new format with new rules. The game is now a best-of-three flag football game played on a 50-yard by 28-yard field (like arena football) with seven players per team on the field. The games consist of two 10-minute halves and a 15-minute halftime.

  4. Powderpuff (sports) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Flags as big as football fields: The story of giant American ...

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    The origins of massive flags on football fields are hazy. Doug Green of DKG Productions, who has been in the giant-flag game for 33 years, says they first started showing up at the Holiday Bowl in ...

  6. Flag football - Wikipedia

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    Hosted at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, Flag Football featured eight men's teams and eight women's teams from around the world. In 2021 the World Games uploaded a beginner's guide to World Games Flag Football. [21] As the reigning world champions, [22] the United States men's and women's teams both pre-qualified for the 2022 World Games.

  7. American football - Wikipedia

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    While the game between Rutgers and Princeton is commonly considered the first American football game, several years prior in 1862, the Oneida Football Club formed as the oldest known football club in the United States. The team consisted of graduates of Boston's elite preparatory schools and played from 1862 to 1865.

  8. From inventing the huddle to trying a new helmet, Gallaudet ...

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    Gallaudet has been playing football since 1883, when it was known as the National Deaf-Mute College, and invented the huddle just over a decade later.

  9. Pro Bowl: Eli Manning thoroughly enjoys besting his brother ...

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    It may be flag football with relatively low stakes attached. But a win is a win anytime you beat your brother. Eli Manning's NFC squad edged Peyton Manning's AFC team on the last play of Sunday's ...