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ABC-CLIO
ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
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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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American football positions
In American football each team has 11 players on the field at one time.
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Arena football
Arena football is a variety of indoor gridiron football played by the Arena Football League (AFL) and China Arena Football League (CAFL).
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Arena Football League
The Arena Football League (AFL) is a professional indoor American football league in the United States.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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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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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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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).
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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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Coin flipping
Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air and checking which side is showing when it lands to choose between two alternatives, sometimes to resolve a dispute between two parties.
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College football
College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.
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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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Conversion (gridiron football)
The conversion, try (American football, also known as a point(s) after touchdown, PAT, or extra point), or convert (Canadian football) occurs immediately after a touchdown during which the scoring team is allowed to attempt to score one extra point by kicking the ball through the uprights in the manner of a field goal, or two points by bringing the ball into the end zone in the manner of a touchdown; depending on league rules, one point may also be scored by manner of a safety.
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Dead ball
Dead ball is a term in many ball sports in which the ball is deemed temporarily not playable, and no movement may be made with it or the players from their respective positions of significance.
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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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Eight-man football
Eight-man football is a form of gridiron football, generally played by high schools with smaller enrollments.
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Eligible receiver
In American football and Canadian football, not all players on offense are entitled to receive a forward pass.
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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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Fair catch
A fair catch is a feature of American football and several other codes of football, in which a player attempting to catch a ball kicked by the opposing team – either on a kickoff or punt – is entitled to catch the ball without interference from any member of the kicking team.
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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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Flag football
Flag football is a version of American football where the basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game (often called "tackle football" for contrast), but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down, and contact is not permitted between players which will result in a penalty for the team that initiates it.
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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 (word)
The English word football may mean any one of several team sports (or the ball used in that respective sport), depending on the national or regional origin and location of the person using the word.
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Football Canada
Football Canada is the governing body for amateur Canadian football.
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Football helmet
The football helmet is a piece of protective equipment used mainly in American football and Canadian football.
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Formation (American football)
A formation in football refers to the position players line up in before the start of a down.
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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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Fumble
A fumble in American and Canadian football occurs when a player who has possession and control of the ball loses it before being downed (tackled) or scoring.
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Glossary of American football
The following terms are used in American football, both conventional and indoor.
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Glossary of Canadian football
This is a glossary of terms used in Canadian football.
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Gridiron (cooking)
A gridiron is a metal grate with parallel bars typically used for grilling meat, fish, vegetables, or combinations of such foods.
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Half-time
In several team sports, matches are played in two halves.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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House rule
House rules are modifications to the provided rules of games that are adopted by individual groups of players.
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Huddle
In sport, a huddle is an action of a team gathering together, usually in a tight circle, to strategize, motivate or celebrate.
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Indoor American football
In the United States, indoor football is football played at ice hockey-sized indoor arenas (as opposed to certain NFL teams which have large indoor stadiums, such as the New Orleans Saints who play in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome).
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Interception
In ball-playing competitive team sports, an interception or pick is a move by a player involving a pass of the ball—whether by foot or hand, depending on the rules of the sport—in which the ball is intended for a player of the same team but caught by a player of the opposing team, who thereby usually gains possession of the ball for their team.
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International Federation of American Football
The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) is the international governing body of American football associations.
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Jim Foster (American football)
James "Jim" Foster is the founder and first commissioner of the Arena Football League (AFL).
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Kickoff (gridiron football)
A kickoff is a method of starting a drive in American football and Canadian football.
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Lateral pass
In American football and Canadian football, a lateral pass or lateral (officially backward pass in American football and onside pass in Canadian football) occurs when the ball carrier throws the football to a teammate in a direction parallel to or away from the opponents' goal line.
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Line of scrimmage
In American and Canadian football, a line of scrimmage is an imaginary transverse line (across the width of the football field) beyond which a team cannot cross until the next play has begun.
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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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Macquarie Dictionary
The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English.
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McGill University
McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Metrication in Canada
Metrication in Canada began in 1970 and while Canada has converted to the metric system for many purposes, there is still significant use of non-metric units and standards in many sectors of the Canadian economy.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nine-man football
Nine-man football is a type of American football played by high schools that are too small to field teams for the usual 11-man game.
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Onside kick
In gridiron football, an onside kick is a kickoff deliberately kicked short.
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Out of bounds
In sports, out of bounds (or out-of-bounds) refers to being outside the playing boundaries of the field.
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Overtime (sports)
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Penalty (gridiron football)
In American football and Canadian football, a penalty is a sanction called against a team for a violation of the rules, called a foul.
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Pitch (sports field)
A pitch or a sports ground is an outdoor playing area for various sports.
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Placekicker
Placekicker, or simply kicker (PK or K), is the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals and extra points.
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Play clock
A play clock, also called a delay-of-game timer, is a countdown clock intended to speed up the pace of the game, and hopefully the scoring, in American football and Canadian football.
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Play from scrimmage
A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball, get a first down, or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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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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Rugby football
Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Safety (gridiron football score)
In gridiron football, the safety (American football) or safety touch (Canadian football) is a scoring play that results in two points (or, in rare cases, one point) being awarded to the scoring team.
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Shoulder pads
Shoulder pads are a piece of protective equipment used in many contact sports such as American football, Canadian football, lacrosse and hockey.
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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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Six-man football
Six-man football is a variant of American football played with six players per team, instead of 11.
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Snap (gridiron football)
A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backwards passing of the ball in American and Canadian football at the start of play from scrimmage.
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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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Street football (American)
Street football, also known as backyard football or sandlot football, is a simplified variant of American football primarily played informally by youth.
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Sudden death (sport)
In a sport or game, sudden death (also sudden-death overtime or a sudden-death round) is a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others, with that competitor becoming the winner.
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The Football Association
The Football Association (FA) is the governing body of association football in England, the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man.
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Three-minute warning
In Canadian football, the three-minute warning is given when three minutes of game time remain on the game clock in the first and second halves of a game.
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Touch football (American)
Touch football is a variant of American football in which the basic rules are similar to those of the mainstream game (called "tackle football" for contrast), but instead of tackling players to the ground, the person carrying the ball need only be touched by a member of the opposite team to end a down.
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Touchback
In American football, a touchback is a ruling which is made and signaled by an official when the ball becomes dead on or behind a team's own goal line (i.e., in an end zone) and the opposing team gave the ball the momentum, or impetus, to travel over or across the goal line.
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Touchdown
A touchdown is a means of scoring in both American and Canadian football.
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Two-minute warning
In the National Football League (NFL), the two-minute warning is given when two minutes of game time remain on the game clock in each half of a game, i.e. near the end of the second and fourth quarters.
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Two-point conversion
In American and Canadian football, a two-point conversion or two-point convert is a play a team attempts instead of kicking a one-point conversion immediately after it scores a touchdown.
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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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Unfair act
In American football, an unfair act is a foul that can be called when a player or team commits a flagrant and obviously illegal act that has a major impact on the game.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books.
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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 Canada
Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and more commonly known as the West, is a region of Canada that includes the four provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
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World Series of Football (1902–03)
The World Series of Football was a series of football games played indoors at New York City's Madison Square Garden in 1902 and 1903.
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Yard
The yard (abbreviation: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches.
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1932 NFL Playoff Game
The 1932 NFL Playoff Game was an extra game held to break a tie in the season's final standings in the National Football League.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_football
