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Canadian football

Index Canadian football

Canadian football is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area (end zone). [1]

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Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey

Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey (28 November 185129 August 1917) was a British nobleman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the ninth since Canadian Confederation.

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Alberta Football League

The Alberta Football League (AFL) is an amateur Canadian football league.

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All-weather running track

An all-weather running track is a rubberized artificial running surface for track and field athletics.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Baltimore Stallions

The Baltimore Stallions (known officially as the "Baltimore Football Club" and previously as the "Baltimore CFL Colts" in its inaugural season) were a Canadian Football League team based in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, which played the 1994 and 1995 seasons.

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BC Lions

The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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BC Place

BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium located at the north side of False Creek, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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BMO Field

BMO Field is an outdoor stadium located at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which is home to Toronto FC of Major League Soccer, the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, and Toronto FC II of the United Soccer League.

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Burnside rules

The Burnside rules were a set of rules that transformed Canadian football from a rugby-style game to the gridiron-style game it has remained ever since.

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Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta, competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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Canadian Bowl

The Canadian Bowl is the championship of the Canadian Junior Football League.

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Canadian Football Hall of Fame

The Canadian Football Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit corporation, located in Hamilton, Ontario, that celebrates great achievements in Canadian football.

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Canadian Football League

The Canadian Football League (CFL; Ligue canadienne de football, LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada.

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Canadian Football League in the United States

The Canadian Football League (CFL), the sole major professional sports league in the United States and Canada to feature only teams from Canada, has made efforts to gain further audience in the United States, most directly through expansion into the country from 1993 to 1995.

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Canadian Junior Football League

The Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL), formed May 8, 1974 is a national amateur Canadian football league consisting of 18 teams playing in six provinces across Canada.

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Cleveland Browns relocation controversy

The Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, sometimes referred to by fans as "The Move", was the decision by then-Browns owner Art Modell to relocate the National Football League (NFL)'s Cleveland Browns from its long-time home of Cleveland to Baltimore during the 1995 NFL season.

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Comparison of American and Canadian football

American and Canadian football are gridiron codes of football that are very similar.

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Comparison of Canadian football and rugby league

A comparison of Canadian football and rugby league football can be made because of their shared origins, resulting in similarities and shared concepts in terms of scoring and advancing the ball.

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Contact sport

Contact sports are sports that emphasize or require physical contact between players.

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Cornerback

A cornerback (CB), also referred to as a corner, is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in American and Canadian football.

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Defensive back

In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs (DBs) are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of scrimmage.

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Down (gridiron football)

A down is a period in which a play transpires in American and Canadian football.

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Drop kick

A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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End (gridiron football)

An end in American and Canadian football is a player who lines up at either end of the line of scrimmage, usually beside the tackles.

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End zone

The end zone is the scoring area on the field, according to gridiron-based codes of football.

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Eton field game

The Field Game is one of two codes of football devised and played at Eton College.

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Field goal

A field goal (FG) is a means of scoring in American football and Canadian football.

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First Canadian Army

The First Canadian Army (1reArmée canadienne) was a field army and the senior formation of the Canadian Army that served on the Western Front from July 1944 until May 1945 during the Second World War.

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Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal.

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Football (ball)

A football is a ball inflated with air that is used to play one of the various sports known as football.

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Football Canada

Football Canada is the governing body for amateur Canadian football.

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Forward pass

In several forms of football a forward pass is a throwing of the ball in the direction that the offensive team is trying to move, towards the defensive team's goal line.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Glossary of Canadian football

This is a glossary of terms used in Canadian football.

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Goal (sport)

In sports, a goal is a physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or puck in order to score points.

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Grenadier Guards

The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Grey Cup

The Grey Cup (Coupe Grey) is the name of both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing Canadian football.

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Gridiron football

Gridiron football,.

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Linebacker

A linebacker (LB or backer) is a playing position in American football and Canadian football.

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Lineman (gridiron football)

In gridiron football, a lineman is a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage.

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List of gridiron football teams in Canada

This is a list of gridiron football teams in Canada.

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Maritime Women's Football League

The Maritime Women's Football League is a Canadian football league in eastern Canada.

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McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Mitchell Bowl

The Mitchell Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football, Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football.

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Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes (Les Alouettes de Montréal) are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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No man's land

No man's land is land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty.

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Official (Canadian football)

An official in Canadian football is a person who has responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game.

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Ontario Rugby Football Union

The Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) was an early amateur Canadian football league.

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Ottawa Rough Riders

The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876.

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Percival Molson Memorial Stadium

Percival Molson Memorial Stadium (also known in French as Stade Percival-Molson; commonly referred to as Molson Stadium in English or Stade Molson in French) is an outdoor football stadium located downtown on the slopes of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Place kick

The place kick is a kicking style commonly used in rugby union, rugby league, association football, American football and Canadian football.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands.

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Punt (gridiron football)

In American and Canadian football, a punt is a kick performed by dropping the ball from the hands and then kicking the ball before it hits the ground.

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Quarterback

A quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB") is a position in American and Canadian football.

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Quebec Junior Football League

The Quebec Junior Football League (QJFL) is a junior Canadian football competition held in Quebec, Canada since 1970, as a successor to the Quebec Juvenile Football League.

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Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Running back

A running back (RB) is an American and Canadian football position, a member of the offensive backfield.

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Scots Guards

The Scots Guards (SG), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.

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Semi-professional

A semi-professional athlete is one for whom sport is not a full-time occupation.

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Single (football)

In Canadian football, a single (single point, or rouge), scoring one point, is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a convert (successful or not) or a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return, or kick, the ball out of its end zone.

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Slotback

Slotback, sometimes referred to as an A-back or, especially in the United States, slot receiver, is a position in gridiron football.

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Spheroid

A spheroid, or ellipsoid of revolution, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters.

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Team sport

A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective.

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Time-out (sport)

In sports, a time-out or timeout is a halt in the play.

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Touchdown Atlantic

Touchdown Atlantic (French: Touché Atlantique) was a series of Canadian Football League games played in the maritime provinces of Canada.

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Trinity College, Toronto

Trinity College is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan.

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U Sports

U Sports (stylized as U SPORTS) is the national sport governing body of university sport in Canada, comprising the majority of degree-granting universities in the country.

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U Sports football

U Sports football is the highest level of amateur play of Canadian football and operates under the auspices of U Sports (formerly Canadian Interuniversity Sport).

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University College, Toronto

University College is a constituent college of the University of Toronto, created in 1853 specifically as an institution of higher learning free of religious affiliation.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Unsportsmanlike conduct

Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called unsporting behaviour or ungentlemanly conduct or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct.

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Uteck Bowl

The Uteck Bowl is one of the two semifinal bowls of U Sports football, Canada's national competition for university teams that play Canadian football.

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Utrecht

Utrecht is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vanier Cup

The Vanier Cup (Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football.

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Walter Camp

Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football".

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Western Women's Canadian Football League

The Western Women's Canadian Football League (WWCFL) is a full-contact women's Canadian football league which began play in the spring of 2011.

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Wide receiver

A wide receiver, also referred to as wideouts or simply receivers, is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is a key player.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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4th Canadian Division

The 4th Canadian Division is a formation of the Canadian Army.

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83rd Grey Cup

The 83rd Grey Cup a.k.a. The Wind Bowl was the 1995 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Baltimore Stallions and the Calgary Stampeders at Taylor Field in Regina, Saskatchewan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_football

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