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The Utah Girls Tackle Football League (GFL) is the first all-girls youth American football league in the world, founded as a nonprofit in March 2015. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The league is currently in its eleventh season. [ 3 ]
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 play by similar rules to the men's game.
Kathleen Trumbo – First female in the state of Indiana to earn a varsity letter in football, as a defensive tackle at Corydon Central High School in 1989. [87] [88] Although other girls in Indiana had started the season on boys' football teams, only Trumbo is believed to have finished. [87]
The Women's Professional Football League operated again between 1999 and 2007. A second league, the Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000. In 2009 were founded the Women's Football Alliance and The X League. In 2010, Katie Hnida became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in the Continental Indoor Football League. [2]
“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 ...
Linda Jefferson was a dominant football player for the National Women’s Football League in the 1970s. ... more than 2,400 girls played tackle football ... a Women’s Football Alliance tackle ...
The WNFC has announced that starting in the 2025 season, each tackle team will also be fielding a flag football team for women ages 18+. On May 9, 2024, the WNFC announced a partnership with Gridiron Football. [4] On Nov 24, 2024, the WNFC announced a tha they raised $1M in Seed Funding.
Tackle football has more girls playing than ever before, according to the latest data available (2018) from NFL Football Operations, which showed 2,404 participating in the sport. Also, Chris ...