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USA Football is the governing body of American football in the United States. [1] It is the United States' member of the International Federation of American Football (IFAF), [ 2 ] and a recognized sports organization of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee . [ 3 ]
The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) is the international governing body of American football associations. The IFAF oversees the organisation and promotion of all international competitions across both contact and non contact versions of the game, [2] including the IFAF World Championship of American Football, which is held every four years.
American 7s Football League (A7FL) is a semi-professional league which plays a seven-man version of gridiron football, while the American Flag Football League plays a variant of American football where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier to end a down.
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
The American Football Association (AFA) was the first attempt in the United States to form an organizing soccer body. [ 1 ] It was the second oldest sports league to form, behind the National League of baseball in 1876, [ 2 ] as well as being the oldest soccer organization in the United States.
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The X-League is the largest American football league in Japan, and the largest American football league in the world to use a promotion-relegation system. Some teams in the X-League, like the Panasonic Impulse , are sponsored by corporations, and all Japanese players on these teams are employed by the corporation.
The international governing body for the sport is the International Federation of American Football (IFAF); although the organization plays all of its international competitions under American rules, it uses a definition of the game that is broad enough that it includes Canadian football under its umbrella, and Football Canada (the governing ...