1. American Football - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Encyclopedia article covering the history of the sport, its popularity, rules, basic strategy, and physicality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football

American football From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For the playing of football (soccer) in the United States, see Soccer in the United States . For the disbanded American indie rock band, see American Football (band) An American football game between the Tennessee Titans and Houston Texans in 2005. American football , known in the United States simply as football is a competitive team sport known for mixing complex strategy with intense physical play. The object of the game is to score points by advancing the pointed- oval shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone . The ball can be advanced by carrying it (a running play) or by throwing it to a teammate (a passing play). Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the goal line, catching a pass from beyond the goal line, tackling an opposing ball carrier in his own end zone, or kicking the ball through the goal posts on the opposing side. The winner is the team with the most points when time expires at the end of the last play. Outside the United States , the sport is referred to as American football (or a translation thereof) to differentiate it from other football codes. In Australia and New Zealand the game is known as

2. Howstuffworks "How American Football Works" american football is about gaining territory and scoring points. Learn about american football positions, american football rules and see a football field http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/football.htm

HowStuffWorks.com RSS Make HowStuffWorks your homepage Get Newsletter Search HowStuffWorks and the web: EXPLANATIONS Auto Communication Computer Electronics ... Travel EXPERT REVIEWS Consumer Guide Auto Consumer Guide Products Mobil Travel Guide PRICES Shop HowStuffWorks REFERENCE Encyclopedia Maps VIDEO STUFF Watch Videos Upload / My Account REFERENCE LINKS Main Entertainment Sports PRINT ... EMAIL How American Football Works by Kevin Bonsor Inside This Article Introduction to How American Football Works Who's Who on the Football Field Moving the Football and Finding the End Zone Football Officials Football: Instant Replay ... articles American football is a unique sport it is a game about gaining territory as much as it is about scoring points. When two teams step onto a football field, each is battling for every inch it can take from the other. Each team wants to defend the field that is behind it and invade the field in front of it. Ultimately, they want to gain enough ground to score a touchdown or field goal. In this article, you will learn about the field, the positions, and how points are scored, with a focus on professional football rules. We will also look at some basic techniques for the offense and defense. To learn more about football, read

3. American Football History The history of american football. How and when the game of football, known originally as soccer and rugby in England, came to America. http://www.wiwi.essortment.com/americanfootbal_rwff.htm

American football history The history of American football. How and when the game of football, known originally as soccer and rugby in England, came to America. Details of both college and pro levels. HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the game’s beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys’ School in England. Another cousin of the game of football is soccer; its beginnings can also be traced to English origin, being played as early as the eighteen twenties. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: ITS BEGINNINGS At the same time, a group of students at Princeton began playing what was then known as ‘ballown’. First using their fists to advance the ball, and then their feet, this game consisted mainly of one goal: to advance the ball past the opposing team. There were no hard and fast rules applied to this earliest attempt at the game we now call football. At Harvard, the freshman and sophomore classes competed in a football-type game, played on the first Monday of each school year; this event came to be known as ‘Bloody Monday’ because of the roughness of the game. Pick up games, similar in style to that played on ‘Bloody Monday’, soon became popular on the Boston Common, catching on in popularity around eighteen sixty.

4. AFCA.com—Official Site Of The American Football Coaches Association The Official Online Source for All AFCA News and Sports Information. http://www.afca.com/

AFCA Announces its 2007 National Coaches of the Year The American Football Coaches Association capped its 2008 convention by presenting its top coaching award — AFCA Coach of the Year — to five outstanding coaches today. [Full Story] University of Washington Head Coach Tyrone Willingham will lead the American Football Coaches Association in 2008 as president of the organization. [Full Story] Lou Tepper and Frank Solich Named to AFCA Board of Trustees Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Lou Tepper and Ohio University's Frank Solich have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Football Coaches Association. The two were elected by [Full Story] Valdosta State came from behind to beat No. 2 Northwest Missouri State, 25-20, in the Division II national championship game, earning the Blazers its second national title in four years. Valdosta [Full Story] AFCA Announces its 2007 National Coaches of the Year Lou Tepper and Frank Solich Named to AFCA Board of Trustees document.getElementById('sHeadlineContainer_1').innerHTML = document.getElementById('subHeadline_2').innerHTML; document.getElementById('sHeadlineContainer_2').innerHTML = document.getElementById('subHeadline_3').innerHTML; document.getElementById('sHeadlineContainer_3').innerHTML = document.getElementById('subHeadline_4').innerHTML; AFCA Announces Division II Coaches’ All-America Team McKay Dunn and Brandon Kaufman Headline 2007 NAIA All-America Team AFCA Announces 2007 FCS Coaches’ All-America Team Register Now!

5. American Football Monthly - The Magazine For Football Coaches Magazine for coaching football with hundreds of clinics articles, offense defense drills and more. http://www.americanfootballmonthly.com/

American Football Monthly Magazine is dedicated to being the industry's #1 source of information for the football coach. AFM has more articles on football coaching, football plays and football strategies than any other source available. View Larger [Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. ] [Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you may visit the related document. [Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you may visit the related document. NEW! Advanced Search Email: Password: Login Help [Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you may visit the related document. How will you get your next job? Unravel the mysteries of managing your next job search and career with American Football Monthly's Resume manager and resume board exclusive for AFM subscribers! Resume Manager: Our resume manager takes the guesswork out of preparing your resume. Includes tools to create, edit, print, email and even post your resume with the click of a mouse.

6. American Football american football coverage at the Virtual Library of Sport history, Global Coverage, National Leagues, glossary, site links. http://sportsvl.com/ball/gridiron.htm

Home The Game ( History About The Game Improve your Game Rules The Jargon ... Forums American Football Global Information National and Regional World Teams American Leagues ... Mostly commercial (Accommodation/Betting/ Tickets /other) Paper Football "American Football is played by two opposing teams of eleven. The football field measures 91.4m by 48.8m and is marked off by latitudinal stripes every 4.57m. At either end there is and end-zone which measures 9.14m across. In the center of each end-zone stand goal posts 6.1m high, with a crossbar 3.05m above the ground and with the uprights on either end 7.2m apart. The object of the game is to move the ball across the opponent's goal line, thereby scoring a touchdown, worth six points......." . Read on. From All Footballs - a basic introduction. See also Wikipedia The Game About Rules History Improve your game Forums Equipment History Know the background Evolution of the Football Sean Fagan explains it all!

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8. Introduction To American College Football Rules american football grew out of the English game of rugby. Unlike soccer, the foot hardly ever touches the ball in american football. http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/intro/

Introduction to American College Football Rules American football grew out of the English game of rugby. Unlike soccer, the foot hardly ever touches the ball in American football. (Soccer is the game most of the world calls football.) The Field is 100 yards long (and 160 feet wide). The middle of the field is the 50 yard line. The lines are labeled every 10 yards descending in both directions from the 50 yard line. Thus there are two 40 yard lines and no 60 yard line. Each team owns half of the field (they switch sides every 15 minutes of play). Thus, the two 40 yard lines are distinguished by who owns them. The "zero yard line" is called the goal line. The areas to either side of those 100 yards, extending 10 yards past the goal lines, are called the end zones. Teams try to get the ball past the opponent's goal line into the end zone to score a touchdown. At far edge of each end zone are the goal posts which, together with the cross bar, look like a big H. These are used only when a team decides to kick a field goal instead of going for a touchdown or to kick for an extra point after scoring a touchdown. To score the field goal or extra point, the ball must go between the vertical posts and over the bar.

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new releases new on epitonic epicenter editor's blog ... community American Football Polyvinyl Records Sensitive boys with guitars who start bands at a young age are often pigeonholed with the loaded moniker "emo." Especially when those boys used to be in bands like Cap'n Jazz and Joan of Arc . But somehow (perhaps it's their use of the trumpet?), American Football avoids playing into tired old cliches about emo music. In fact, their heartfelt, delicately textured songs may win over even the most fervent anti-emo set. American Football formed in Urbana, Illinois in 1997 after Mike Kinsella (ex- Cap'n Jazz Joan of Arc ) and Steve Lamos from The One Up Downstairs got together with solo artist Steve Holmes . In October, 1998, the trio released a three-song CD single on Polyvinyl Records . They toured briefly and then released a self-titled full-length in September 1999. "Honestly?" from that album, is typical of American Football: all twinkly guitars and polyrhythms carefully and lovingly sculpted into a whirlwind of sounds and textures. But they shade their lilting melodies with an undercurrent of melancholy that adds depth without becoming maudlin. Sadly, the members of

10. All American Football League When the All american football League® makes its debut One of the men trying to make the cut will be Todd DeLamielleure. Read More / Comment http://www.allamericanfootballleague.com/

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11. North American Football League - Main Semipro football league with teams located across the United States. http://www.nafl.org/

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12. BBC SPORT | Other Sport... | American Football Guide to the basics of american football. Learn the difference between your offence and your defence with our guide to the basics of american football. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/american_football/default.stm

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13. Home Of The AFA The american football Association (AFA) is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the advancement and promotion of semi-pro/minor league football teams and http://www.americanfootballassn.com/

Home Announcements HQ Resources ... Additonal News cssdropdown.startchrome("chromemenu") Welcome to the new home of the AFA The AFA is dedicated to the advancement of semi-pro/minor league football throughout the United States and serves as the National Organization for non-professional leagues and teams from coast-to-coast. You can reach us toll free at 877-624-4485 or 941-388-3510 AFA Origins AC_VHost_Embed_36976(200, 300, 'FFFFFFF', 1, 1, 690862, 0, 0, 0, 'c247ce2015939c48a1c3ebd9800f2cb2', 6); The American Football Association (AFA) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the advancement and promotion of semi-pro/minor league football teams and leagues in the United States. The AFA was founded in 1980 by Ronald J. Real under the name Minor Professional Football Association (MPFA). It's main function was to conduct an annual post-season championship tournament for teams calling themselves minor league. In the first year, five leagues joined the national association and sent their league champions to play in the first national play-off series ever conducted on this level of football. With eight teams making the play-offs (five league champions and three wild cards) there was a great interest renewed in the term "Minor League Football". Thinking his new national Association would develop along the lines of minor league baseball, ice hockey, and basketball, Real worked diligently to make people aware of the national association.

14. American Football News - Semi-pro Football Scores And Power Ratings Scores and power ratings of semipro football teams; features standings of women s teams across the United States. http://www.semiprofootball.org/AFN/

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16. Women's American Football Club A nonprofit organization committed to the success of women s football on both national and local levels. Includes news, team links, and events calendar. http://www.wafcfootball.com/

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17. Understand American Football Learn2 Understand american football. 1st and 10, do it AGAIN! Everywhere in this world but in the United States, when people talk about football , http://www.tutorials.com/05/0544/0544.asp

Intro Before you begin Step 1 Grasp the primary objective Step 2 Get the basic concepts Step 3 Learn what the offense tries to do Step 4 Understand what the defense tries to prevent Step 5 Learn about punts Step 6 Understand why the team is "special" Step 7 Know why sometimes play is stopped Step 8 Know these weights and measures An understanding that, although none of this matters in the grand scheme of world affairs, this is all very important to the people who play and follow the game. A few entertaining Monday nights and Sunday afternoons. torial #0544: Learn Understand American Football 1st and 10, do it AGAIN!

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American Football Michael Billington: It is significant that on the death of Graham Greene in April 1991 Pinter praised him for his ability to look beyond political rhetoric at the reality of 'a tortured naked body'. Pinter's own obsession with the gulf between language and fact prompted him in August that same year to write a poem called 'American Football - A Reflection on the Gulf War'. It was rejected for publication by the Independent, the Observer, the Guardian (on the grounds it was 'a family newspaper'), the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books . The last named, in particular, aroused Pinter's ire by accompanying rejection with the assurance that the poem had 'considerable force' and that it shared the author's views on the United States. Since the poem has been so little read and circulated, it is worth reproducing in full: American Football (English) American Football (Italian) American Football (Dutch) (A Reflection upon the Gulf War (Una riflessione sulla guerra del Golfo (kanttekeningen bij de Golfoorlog Hallelullah!

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