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The National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) is an organization which regulates various sports through the collegiate systems across the United States and Canada. NIRSA serves students who play at the university varsity or club level in athletic sports , but do not participate in the NCAA , NAIA , USports or other sports ...
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 ...
The first known recorded history of flag football can be traced to Fort Meade, Maryland, USA, which is now generally accepted as the sport's birthplace. The first national flag football organization, the National Touch Football League, was formed in the 1960s in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1971, the league has had a national championship game. [4]
They rose as one, a group of about 20 high school girls standing in front of the Irvine Unified School District Board of Education, each raising a piece of paper with a different word scribbled.
In gridiron football, there are several different rulings for encroachment: . In the NFL, encroachment occurs when, before the snap, a defensive player illegally crosses the line of scrimmage and makes contact with an opponent or has a clear path to the quarterback.
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.
Offensive touch football player tries to get out of reach of defending player. Touch football is an amateur variant of American football and Canadian football.The basic rules are similar to those of the mainstream game (called "tackle football" for contrast), but to end a down, the person carrying the ball need only be touched, instead of tackled, by a member of the opposite team. [1]
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 ...