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When the NWFA folded in 2009, the Memphis Belles moved to the Women's Football Alliance. In 2010, the Memphis Belles moved to the Independent Women's Football League, the longest-running and most successful league in the history of Women's Professional Tackle Football, where they made the Midwest Divisional Playoffs. The team has since folded.
The league was known as the "Women's Spring Football League" from 2009 to 2015. The USWFL played with 11-player and 8-player divisions from 2011 through 2013. In 2014, the league split into two leagues, with the 11-woman division retaining the WSFL name and the 8-woman division taking the name the Women's Eights Football League (W8FL).
The Carolina Queens is a women's American tackle football team based out of Charlotte, North Carolina playing in the Independent Women's Football League and owned by Ebony Kimbrough. Home games are played on the campus of Rocky River High School. From 2005 to 2007, the Queens were part of the Women's Professional Football League.
"Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" dives into the barriers women who wanted to be part of professional football faced decades ago, obstacles that still exist today.
For several years in the 1970s, full-tackle women’s football teams, including the Houston Herricanes, competed in the short-lived National Women’s Football League. A new film tells the story ...
Toledo won seven National Women’s Football League titles in a row from 1971-1977. And Jefferson played a key role in their championship culture. “Oh my goodness, Toledo really supported the ...
The first attempts to formalize women's gridiron football came about during the 1960s when Sid Friedman, an entrepreneur, created the Women's Professional Football League (WPFL). The league's approach was considered exploitative but the league resulted in the creation of a number of teams that later formed the NWFL. [1] [2]
The Daredevils, the first women's football team of the era, featured one of the top players, Marcella Sanborn. [4] The All Stars, the second women's team to be established, were later renamed the Hurricanes and then the Powderkegs. [5] [6] Two of the best players played for the Powderkegs, Carole Duffy and Linda Rae Hodge. [7]