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Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, 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. In flag football, contact is limited between players.
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 ...
In Canadian football, the set distance of the line of scrimmage is 1 yard (91 cm), more than three times as long as the American line. Under NCAA , and NFHS rules, there are two lines of scrimmage at the outset of each play: one that restricts the offense and one that restricts the defense. [ 1 ]
HIGH SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALL. Southern Section playoffs. Tuesday’s Results. First Round. DIVISION 2. Long Beach Poly 20, Los Altos 0. Redondo Union 13, Corona 6. Esperanza 27, Corona Santiago 14.
There are over 2,800 Upward Sports programs across the US serving hundreds of thousands of young athletes playing recreational basketball, soccer, cheerleading, flag football, and volleyball. Upward Sports equips local churches that represent various evangelical denominations with training, playbooks, sports apparel, ministry resources, and ...
As such community showings of support grow for girls’ flag football — Oak Park High holding an interest meeting March 29 that drew dozens, coaching hires becoming official at schools around ...
Until the National Federation of State High School Assns. (NFHS) creates a guide, the CIF will use rules for girls’ flag football provided by the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Assn ...
Because of these rules, various leagues of American football have enacted strict rules of uniform numbering so officials may more easily judge which players were eligible and which were not at the start of a play. For example, in college football, ineligible players wear numbers 50–79, while eligible receivers wear 1–49 or 80–99. Even ...