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The Dallas Elite Women's Football team is an American women's tackle football team playing in Division I of the Women's Football Alliance (WFA). The team, based in and around Dallas, Texas, was founded in 2014. The Dallas Elite reached the playoffs and national championship game three years in a row, 2015–2017.
Sarah Schkeeper in a game between the New York Sharks and the Philadelphia Firebirds. Women's gridiron football, more commonly known as women's tackle football, women's American football, women's Canadian football, or simply women's football, is a form of gridiron football (American or Canadian) played by women.
Most leagues in the United States, such as the Women's Football Alliance, play by rules similar to men's tackle football. [1] Although women's flag football is emerging as a collegiate sport, [2] women playing gridiron football at the college level have historically joined men's teams, often (though not exclusively) as placekickers. [3]
“The Herricanes,” a film that documents a team from the first women’s tackle football league in the 1970s, is set to make its Michigan premiere during the 11th annual Freep Film Festival on ...
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West Palm Beach's women's tackle football team will compete in another championship game this Saturday.
Philadelphia's first women's tackle football team was founded in 2001 as the Philadelphia Liberty Belles. The Belles won the inaugural NWFL Championship that year. In 2002, the Belles lost in the semi-final playoff round. Heading into the 2003 season, the team split and the Philadelphia Phoenix was formed.
The Toledo Troopers were a professional women's American football team based in Toledo, Ohio. The Troopers began play in 1971 as a member of the Women's Professional Football League (WPFL), and later played in the National Women's Football League (NWFL). The franchise folded before the 1980 season, after it was put up for sale by the owner. [1]