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Gridiron football (/ ˈɡrɪdaɪ.ərn / GRID-eye-ərn), [1] also known as North American football,[2] or in North America as simply football, is a family of football team sports primarily played in the United States and Canada. American football, which uses 11 players, is the form played in the United States and the best known form of gridiron ...
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...
Professional football is considered the highest level of competition in gridiron football. Whereas most of the other major sports leagues draw their players from the minor leagues, the NFL currently draws almost all of its players directly from college football. College football, in turn, recruits players from high school football, with most ...
Wynford. Conference: Northern 10; Division VI, Region 23 Coach: Cyle Skidmore (third season, 9-13) Last Year: 7-5, 5-2 (third in N10, lost in regional quarterfinals to Bluffton) Base Offense ...
The Gridiron Developmental Football League (GDFL) is a low-level American football minor league [1][2] based in Memphis, Tennessee, using the franchise model. [3][4] The GDFL acts as an umbrella group that encompasses teams from across the Contiguous United States. [5] As of April 2023, the league has 29 teams.
The National Gridiron League (NGL) was a proposed gridiron football league. In 2022, after three years of postponed seasons, the organization rebranded as the United Football League (UFL). [1], prior to the current UFL (formed from the merger of the 2020s USFL and XFL leagues). In 2024, the NGL resurfaced to claim to be launching in 2025.
Fullback Patrick Ricard (No. 42) of the Baltimore Ravens lines up behind quarterback Tyler Huntley during a 2021 preseason game. A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in gridiron football and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback. Fullbacks are typically larger than halfbacks, and, in most offensive ...
In gridiron football, a lineman is a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage. The linemen of the team currently in possession of the ball are the offensive line, while linemen on the opposing team are the defensive line. A number of NFL rules specifically address restrictions and requirements for the offensive line, whose job is ...