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  AFL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alberta Football League a semi-professional Canadian football competition.
American Football League — a professional American football league that operated from 1960 to 1969 prior to merging with the National Football League.
Alberta Federation of Labour, a Canadian trade union federation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AFL   (198 words)

  
 Canadian football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian football is a sport in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (100.6 m) long and 65 yards (59.4 m) wide, with end zones 20 yards (18.3 m) deep.
The professional league in which the sport is played is the eight-team Canadian Football League (CFL), and its champion is awarded the Grey Cup, the oldest trophy in professional football.
As the rules of American football are very similar to Canadian football, the CFL has maintained a close relationship with its American counterpart, the National Football League (NFL).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_football   (3423 words)

  
 alberta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Alberta is 756 miles (1,217 kilometers) from north to south and between 182 to 404 miles (293 and 650 kilometers) in width from west to east.
In 1992/93, Alberta Environmental Protection was formed from the merger of the former departments of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife, and Environment, and the Parks Division of the former department of Tourism and Recreation.
Alberta maintains the largest livestock population in Canada, accounting for 42 percent of the country's beef cattle, 15 percent of the hogs, and 24 percent of the sheep and lambs.
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/alberta.htm   (5776 words)

  
 Alberta
Alberta is a fertile province, as the eastern and southern portions its surface consists chiefly of plains that are almost entirely treeless.
As Alberta extends for 1200 km (750 miles) from north to south, it is natural that the climate should vary considerably between parallels of 49° and 60° north and also between 110° and 120° west.
Northern Alberta and the region farther north is the nesting-ground of the migratory birds.
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 Afl Football -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mark Williams is the current coach of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.
He was also a star player with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League, before joining Collingwood, where he rose to the position of captain of the club during the mid-1980s.
Mark Williams retired from the AFL during the 1990 season to return to Port Adelaide.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/2/afl-football.html   (481 words)

  
 Lloydminster Meridian Booster, Lloydminster, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Razorbacks were one of four Calgary AFL franchises, and had clearly fallen to the bottom of the heap.
The market had become over-saturated, and a couple of years ago, a league bylaw was passed that once a Calgary team folded the league would cap the number of clubs in the city at three.
This was the second year in a row for the league to shrink mid-season, as the Edmonton Icemen folded at about the halfway mark last year after a home loss to the Vandals.
www.meridianbooster.com /story.php?id=173752   (582 words)

  
 AFL Online Research :: Information about AFL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
American Football League – a professional American football league that operated from 1960 to 1969.
In 1970 the AFL merged operations with the National Football League.
Australian Football League – the elite, national competition in Australian Rules Football.
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 CanadaSoccer.com | Official Site of the Canadian Soccer Association
The Alberta Football Association (later known as the Central Alberta Football League) was formed on May 14, in Red Deer, with J.A. Fairley of Innisfail as president.
The Alberta Amateur Football Association was incorporated at its annual meeting held in Edmonton April 17 with the Rev. R.
Present were Frederick A. Barter, honorary president of the Province of Quebec Football Association, Fred R. Davies, president of the PQFA, H.W.C. Gausden, president of the Toronto and District League, Tom Robertson, secretary-treasurer of the Ontario Football Association, and Norton H. Crow, secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union.
www.canadasoccer.com /eng/history/index.asp?sub2=13   (3866 words)

  
 People- Government of Alberta
As of April 1, 2005, Alberta's population is estimated to be 3,236,906.
Alberta is a land with a rich record of the past going back hundreds of millions of years.
Alberta is home to two National Hockey League teams (the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames) and two Canadian Football League teams (the Edmonton Eskimos and the Calgary Stampeders).
www.gov.ab.ca /home/index.cfm?Page=28   (702 words)

  
 How long before the XFL becomes the ex-FL? [March 2000, Renaissance Online Magazine Sports]
A student at the University of Alberta, Ciampa is the public relations coordinator for the St. Albert Saints and writes a weekly article in the Edmonton Sun on junior hockey during the winter.
By similar reasoning, the XFL is not the National Football League, nor does McMahon have the financial wherewithal to compete with them for talent.
The league started up in February 1983, and after becoming increasingly frustrated by the NFL stealing away all of its top talent (something that will inevitably happen to the XFL as well, and something that the CFL -- Canadian Football League -- has grown to accept) filed a lawsuit against the NFL.
www.renaissancemag.com /sports/sp0300.asp   (965 words)

  
 Red Deer Buccaneers Football Club Official Website
The Alberta Football League Annual General Meeting was held on February 11th.
They are a long -running minor football program that wished to have a senior team for graduating midgets and older alumni to play on.
The NFC and AFL would run their seasons in full, with each league champion meeting to decide the ultimate winner.
www.reddeerbuccaneers.com /Bucnews.htm   (699 words)

  
 Founders' Message
Prior to the formation of the Icemen football club, the only way you could play organized full contact football in Edmonton was if you were under the age of 22 in the Prairie Junior Football League.
The AFL is looking towards future expansion, as there is an increasing amount of interest in forming new teams in the province.
The AFL is associated with the CMFL (Canadian Major Football League).
members.shaw.ca /edmontonicemen/founders_message.htm   (284 words)

  
 College Football Play - iowa football picture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Arizona Daily Star - June used to be one of the two quiet months in college football, a time when the players scattered to their hometowns while coaches kicked back and went fishing.
Rugby is a sport much like American football, but it prohibits passing, allowing players to score only by...
But the Fighting Irish's consensus All-American wide receiver also has expressed to Major League Baseball scouts his desire to sign a pro baseball contract.
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 Calgary Bantam Football Association - League Overview
The Calgary Bantam Football Association is a full contact tackle football league for youth's aged 13 to 15 years.
The league is comprised of 14 teams, 9of which are in Calgary and 5which encompass the surrounding communities.
Financing for the league is provided through receipts from the 50/50 draw at Calgary Stampeders home games which is shared with the Calgary Colts junior football program.
www.cbfa.ab.ca /overview.htm   (396 words)

  
 Canadian Football League: 01/16/2005 - 01/22/2005
He was part of Patriot League championship teams in 1988, 1994 and 2004 as a member of the Leopards' staff.
Lafayette led the Patriot League in total offense in 2003 with 404.9 yards per game, while the 2002 squad led the league in passing offense and sacks allowed.
After retiring as a football player in 1960, Kwong established a successful career in real estate and became part-owner and director of the National Hockey League's Calgary Flames until he sold his interest in 1994.
cfl-football.blogspot.com /2005_01_16_cfl-football_archive.html   (2258 words)

  
 Canadian football - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
First, the only player on the field legally allowed to be tackled is the player currently in possession of the football (the ball carrier).
Second, a receiver, that is to say, an offensive player sent down the field to receive a pass, may not be interfered with as long as he is more than 5 yards from any point on the line of scrimmage.
A quarter cannot end while a penalty is pending: after the penalty yardage is applied, the quarter is extended one scrimmage.
canadianfootball.quickseek.com   (1979 words)

  
 Maple Leaf Football League
The league's rules were standardised over the course of the first four seasons but many of these rules were known either by word of mouth or precident only.
Also, for the first time in league history teams announce what position they will draft with their first round draft pick, allowing GMs and l'entraineurs to make informed trades.
Alberta becomes convinced that they are destined to be the next MLFL dynasty.
www.powermacintosh.net /lh.html   (530 words)

  
 The Edmonton Huskies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Edmonton Huskies Football Club was formed in 1947 as the Edmonton South Side Athletics, and commenced play in the four team Alberta Junior Football League in 1948.
In 1952, the Edmonton Oilers and the Edmonton Wildcats were the two sponsored teams of the Edmonton Football Association, with the Oilers becoming the Edmonton Huskies in 1958.
The Huskies have been a starting point for many players who have gone on to professional careers in the Canadian Football League, but all who come to the "House" experience the best coaching available and are exposed to the Huskie tradition.
www.edmontonhuskies.com /history.asp   (247 words)

  
 Football Alberta
On February 10, 1968; the executive of the then Alberta Football Coaches Association (a forerunner to Football Alberta) met in Red Deer to discuss the concept of an Alberta High School Football All-Star Game to be known as the "Senior Bowl".
It is a contest between the best high school football players in Northern Alberta (from Red Deer north) against their counterparts in Southern Alberta selected from the 105 High Schools currently with football programs.
Cardston QB Steve Scott was the class of the field as the Southern Alberta High School League M.V.P shredded the "North" defence with 104 yards rushing and one TD to go along with two touchdown passes.
www.footballalberta.ab.ca /programs/senior.htm   (3427 words)

  
 FFWD Weekly - August 8, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But every week, one or more of the four Calgary-based AFL teams takes to the turf to give it their all in full-contact football.
In the case of the football teams, "social aspect" means eating and eating.
Let's just say it would be very surprising to hear that these football players have ever had anything grow its own lid while sitting in the fridge.
www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2002/0808/out.htm   (640 words)

  
 Boer War - rugby
South African sources say that rugby league was played during the Boer War by Yorkshire regiments and, in that context, in 1900 a New Zealand Field Artillery rugby league team took part in a challenge for the Zeerust Rugby League Trophy.
The 'Zee Rust Rugby League Challenge Trophy' was won in 1900 by the Fifth Contingent of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles 10th Reinforcements on the battle fields of the Transvaal.
Rugby league's signature play-the-ball and 13-a-side were still half-a-decade away in the future.
www.rl1908.com /boer.htm   (732 words)

  
 CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Columnists - Strachan: Alberta's crying shame
Even though it is undergoing difficulties at the moment, it was once a major league and could be again under the proper circumstances.
The owners in Edmonton and Calgary know they can't go to the people who run Major League Baseball and demand that a financial structure be established in order to guarantee the participation of their cities.
Alberta is by far the richest province in the country.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Columnists/Strachan/2005/03/08/953862.html   (632 words)

  
 The Edmonton Huskies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Edmonton Huskies Football Club was formed in 1947 as the Edmonton Athletic Association and commenced play in the four-team Alberta Junior Football League.
In 1952, the Edmonton Oilers and the Edmonton Wildcats were the two sponsors of the Edmonton Football Association, until the Oilers became the Edmonton Huskies in 1954.
The Canadian Junior Football League is represented by 20 teams and competes annually for the national title known as the Canadian Bowl
www.edmontonhuskies.com /heritage.asp   (398 words)

  
 The Football League: England at Canadian Content
Additional Information: The Football League Championship is the world's original league football competition and has provided the blueprint for other domestic competitions around the world since its foundation in 1888.
Statistics and history, from the 1983/84 season, of the cup competition for teams in League One and Two (formerly Division Two and Three) of the Football League and twelve invited teams from the Football Conference National Division.
The "big three" are baseball, football and basketball, which are all popular on both the college and professional levels.
www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Sports/Soccer/UEFA/England/The_Football_League   (869 words)

  
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 Lloydminster Meridian Booster, Lloydminster, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
With a swagger that is almost unparalleled by a second-year franchise, the Lloydminster Vandals continued their climb to the top of the Alberta Football League this past Saturday with a 23-15 win over the previously undefeated Calgary Gators.
Lloydminster Meridian Booster — With a swagger that is almost unparalleled by a second-year franchise, the Lloydminster Vandals continued their climb to the top of the Alberta Football League this past Saturday with a 23-15 win over the previously undefeated Calgary Gators.
After a shutout win over an expansion team, followed by a close loss to the best team in the league who arguably did not come prepared to play, this game was about showing the rest of the province they mean business.
www.meridianbooster.com /story.php?id=166901   (924 words)

  
 canadian football league   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Canadian Football League (CFL) is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football.
Former Canadian Football League player Ronald Williams was honored by The Winnipeg...
Although football under formalized rules has been played in Canada since the 1860s, the Canadian Football League (CFL) began its formal existence in January 1958.
www.sportsbetting-planet.com /articles/8/canadian-football-league.html   (377 words)

  
 Calgary Colts History
The present-day club evolved from the North Hill Colts, who competed in the Alberta Junior Football League (AJFL) with the Calgary Mohawks, Edmonton Huskies and Edmonton Wildcats.
In 1967 the Calgary Colts Junior Football Association was formed under the direction of a core group of people that included Ron Urton, Doug Baker, Lyle Edwards and Evans.
After the Rams left the junior league to become affiliated with the University of Regina, the Prairie Thunder was formed to fill the void in that Saskatchewan city.
www.calgarycolts.com /history.htm   (762 words)

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