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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : American football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport.
		Both American football and soccer have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and American football is directly descended from rugby football.
		British Collegiate American Football League (BCAFL) - Fast-growing college football league in the UK A spring professional football league, the All American Football League, is presently being formed.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /American_football (3601 words)

	Rush (American football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first is an action taken by the offensive team that means to advance the ball by running, as opposed to passing.
		The purpose is tackling, hurrying or flushing the quarterback, or blocking or disrupting a kick.
		In both college and professional football, getting a strong pass rush is an important skill, as an average quarterback will often be able to be productive, even against a strong secondary, if he has lots of time to make pass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rush_(football) (378 words)

	Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rush (street artist) A Uk based street artist, specialising in "dreamworld" and iconic characters.
		Rush (TV), a historical drama television serial produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1970s, which was later overdubbed by The Late Show in the early 1990s to produce "The Olden Days"
		Richard Rush, American statesman and son of Dr. Benjamin Rush
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rush (434 words)

	American football
		American football, known in the United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that rewards players' speed, agility, skill, tactics, and brute strength as they run and throw a ball, and block, tackle, and outrun each other, trying to force the ball further into their opponent's territory and ultimately into the endzone.
		The minor Arena Football League (1987-present) plays an indoor adaptation of American football, at a faster pace, on a smaller field with no built-in sidelines -- the edges of the grid are coincident with padded walls similar to those found in a baseball outfield.
		The school's head football coach, Gary Barnett, in responding to the charge by his only female player that a teammate had raped her, accused her of being an incompetent player.
	www.askfactmaster.com /American_football (6916 words)

	Wikinfo \| American football
		American football does not much resemble soccer, the sport which most people outside the U.S. call "football".
		However, both of these games have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and American football is directly descended from rugby football, usually known simply as "Rugby".
		Football is also occasionally used by followers of the sports of Rugby Union, Rugby League, Gaelic Football and Australian Rules Football to refer to their sport.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=American_Football (7904 words)

	American Broadcasting Company Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		However, their reality television programming has not been as successful; despite successes with Dancing with the Stars, the mishandling of The Mole (and the creation of its subsequent spinoffs Celebrity Mole Hawaii and Celebrity Mole Yucatan) and the continued failures of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are of note.
		Set for the Rest of Your Life, a new series, is scheduled to replace Dancing with the Stars 3 on Tuesdays, while According to Jim and The George Lopez Show are scheduled to replace the results show on Wednesdays after the conclusion of Dancing with the Stars 3.
		American Inventor, Primetime, and Supernanny are other returning shows scheduled to return at midseason.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/American_Broadcasting_Company (3703 words)

	13thman.com - A Canadian Football Fan Community
		Historians agree that the first recorded instance of a game resembling the modern versions of North American football was played between a Canadian and an American university in the mid-1800s using an ad hoc mixture of mostly rugby but some soccer rules.
		American football went to a smaller field as a result of limitations of space at Yale University, and reduced kicking tries to the status of dead ball (either I score or I don't) plays.
		American players in the CFL almost always opt to play in Canada because the quality of their talent may be equal to that of an NFL player but their physical size was deemed to be not large or heavy enough for the American football style.
	www.13thman.com /cflvsnfl.html (1669 words)

	Sports Rules - American Football
		Objective: American football is played by two teams who will have eleven players on the field at any one time.
		In professional football, a player must have both feet inbounds (on the field of play) while in possession of the ball, the college game allows for only foot to be inbounds.
		In professional football the inbound lines are 21.55 metres (70 feet 9 inches) in from the sidelines.
	sportsrules.50g.com /americanfootball.htm (5411 words)

	SamoaLive! American Football Rules
		A football game is supposedly one hour, but takes about three hours to play because the clock is often stopped for various reasons.
		During a pass play, the defensive front four rush the quarterback hoping to either make him throw the ball early or perhaps even sack him by tackling him before he throws the ball.
		In a rushing play the quarterback hands the ball off to the tailback or, sometimes, the fullback and that person runs with the ball.
	www.samoalive.com /amf_rules.htm (2337 words)

	Rush out to Blaze trail into playoffs
		Along with the Blaze, the Rush is battling for playoff position with the Grand Rapids Rampage and Las Vegas Gladiators.
		The Rush has beaten Grand Rapids and Las Vegas this season and owns the tiebreaker against both those teams right now, but the Rampage will host the Rush next Saturday to wrap up the regular season.
		Rush quarterback Matt D'Orazio is listed as probable after spraining his left ankle on the third play in last Saturday's humbling 55-20 loss at Georgia.
	www.suntimes.com /output/rush/cst-spt-rush06.html (306 words)

	BBC - Wales - American Football
		American Football is a fast fun game played by people of all ages and abilities.
		American football is not a sport confined to those across the pond.
		American football is an awesome game that takes both intellectual strategy and physical strength, speed, and durability.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/sport/community/pages/americanfootball.shtml (717 words)

	Canadian Football League
		Perennially among the AFL's top rushers, he led the league in rushing touchdowns in 1965 and was voted to the American Football League All-Star team in 1965 and 1966.
		Buffalo Bills in 1962, when he was the first American Football League player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, (1,096 in a 14-game schedule), earning him league MVP honors.
		Ernie Warlick, a Negro All-American at North Carolina College, played four years for the Calgary Stampeders, and was a CFL All-Star in three of them.
	www.conigliofamily.com /CanadianFootballLeague.htm (1262 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The usual excuse for a game was the "class rush", a joyous custom in which the sophomores demonstrated the benefit of an additional year's education by trampling the freshmen into the campus sod.
		Some historians have gone so far as to call the Oneidas' victories the first games of American football, maintaining the hybrid Boston Game was neither soccer nor rugby and, therefore, was what Americans recognize as their favorite autumn sport.
		Although the Boston Game can't be placed any higher on football's evolutionary ladder, it seems fair to say that the Oneidas themselves exerted an important influence on the eventual course of American football, particularly because several of the boys grew up and took their game with them to Harvard.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=c-to1870 (3807 words)

	Buffalo Bills
		They were the first American Football League team to win 13 games in a season (1964); were one of only three teams to appear in an AFL championship game for three successive years; and the only AFL team to apear in the playoffs four straight years, 1963 through 1966.
		In 1961 he was an American Football League All-Star based on his league-leading 10 interceptions and a yards-per-punt average of 44.5, which also led the league.
		He was the first American Football League player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season, 1,096 in a 14-game schedule in 1962, earning him league MVP honors.
	www.conigliofamily.com /Bills.htm (3082 words)

	Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Football is an intense game that is played at a fast pace.
		Football is a sport played with 22 people on the field, eleven people per side of the football.
		The goal of the game is to either get the football to cross the plane of the goal line, a touchdown or to kick the ball through the uprights, metal poles 10 ft. off the ground about 20 ft. apart, a field goal.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~janzenk/cs102 (139 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: American Indians
		Basket-weaving in wood splits, cane, rushes, yucca- or bark-fibre, and various grasses was practiced by the same tribes which made pottery, and excepting in a few tribes, was likewise a women's work.
		The weaving of grass or rush mats for covering beds or wigwams may be considered as a variant of the basket-weaving process, as likewise the delicate porcupine quill appliqué work of the northern plains and upper-Mississippi tribes.
		Among distinctly women's games were football and shinny, the former, however, being merely the bouncing of the ball from the toes with the purpose of keeping in the air as long as possible.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07747a.htm (10189 words)

	rush - Wiktionary
		(football) the act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
		The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport.
		(American football) To run directly at (another player) in order to block or disrupt play.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/rush (232 words)

	8 May 2001
		In his fourth season with the Lions is 31-year-old American running back Tyrone Rush, who still holds rushing records at the University of North Alabama, and played professionally for a short time with the Washington Redskins, even seeing time in the 1992 Super Bowl.
		Rush, who has 957 yards on 68 carries with 22 touchdowns in six Golden League games, missed a game with a muscle strain suffered April 29 during a 55-14 win in Switzerland over the Seaside Vipers.
		But indications are that Rush, who is on pace to set a new Italian single-season record for rushing touchdowns, will be available for the Lions' next league game on May 19 and would play against IWU.
	www.iwu.edu /iwunews/sports/050801a.html (1073 words)

	American Football - Panthers lead rush into playoffs - Eurosport
		While the discussion after the game was on Favre's future on the field, the spotlight was firmly fixed on Seattle running back Shaun Alexander, who set an NFL single season touchdown record with his 28th and claimed the league rushing title after narrowly missing out on the honor last season.
		Favre ended a miserable season for the Packers (4-12) and their supporters on a winning note completing 21-of-37 pass attempts for 259 yards, a touchdown and his 29th interception of the season, the most since turning professional.
		In Philadelphia, Clinton Portis rushed for a pair of touchdowns and Sean Taylor ran a fumble back for an score to earn the Washington Redskins a 31-20 win over the Eagles and the final playoff spot still up for grabs on Sunday.
	www.eurosport.co.uk /americanfootball/sport_sto808398.shtml (1066 words)

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		Rush 2005 is a BSD-licensed project to create an American football game for Windows and Linux in the tradition of Tecmo Bowl and NFL Blitz, built using the cross-platform SDL game programming library.
		Rush 2005 currently uses SDL (the windows dll is included), SDL_image (the windows dlls are included), SDL_Mixer (the windows dll is included), and BFont (the source code is included).
		Rush 2005 is a project to build a fast and fun, cross-platform American football game.
	rush2005.sourceforge.net (1827 words)

	African American Registry: "Cookie" Gilchrist, an athlete with principles!
		He was the first American Football League player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season: 1,096 in a 14-game schedule in his first year; earning him league MVP honors.
		Gilchrist frequently was at odds with team management, the American ones working for Canadian teams, he told a reporter from the London Free Press, saying that most of the problems he encountered were a result of his standing up for principles at a time when Black athletes were expected to remain silent.
		Cookie Gilchrist was selected as the fullback of the All-Time All-American Football League Team, and he is a member of the American Football League Hall of Fame.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2645/Cookie_Gilchrist_an_athlete_with_principals (384 words)

	PM - Rush Limbaugh slurs black quarterback
		Rush Limbaugh, the political shock jock whose program defines the hardest of Republican lines in politics, has being trying out as a sports commentator.
		RUSH LIMBAUGH: Hubba, hubba, dooba, dooba, welcome back ladies and gentlemen, you are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in America, into our 16th year here.
		RUSH LIMBAUGH: I'm dead right about it, and their reaction to what I said is evidence that I'm right about it, and if you don't say what the appointed
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2003/s958864.htm (744 words)

	The Punt - American Football Monthly
		A three-man rush to a side will be a basic look (diagram 2); a four-man look to a side will be a danger look (diagram 3).
		The long snapper will be in a four-point stance that will allow him to have both hands on the football and to be able to snap the football with speed and precision.
		Phase four should be executed without a rush first so that the coaches can make sure that each player is covering to their lane responsibility.
	www.americanfootballmonthly.com /Subaccess/Magazine/2003/03oct/punt.html (2275 words)

	American Football News : AFN Rate Card
		American Football News™ is the first and only publication serving the entire semi-pro football market throughout the United States.
		The AFN is the “official” publication for the American Football Association (AFA) and its affiliate organizations.
		American Football News™ will deliver this important and rapidly expanding national and international market to its advertisers.
	www.kmfdesign.com /cbs/afn/ratecard.asp (589 words)

	Football Glossary
		a violation of football’s rules by a team or player, punishable by a penalty.
		the major professional football league in the U.S. with 32 teams; its headquarters are in New York.
		to be holding or in control of the football.
	www.firstbasesports.com /football_glossary.html (1945 words)

	Arena Football Chicago
		The Arena Football League and NBC Sports have failed to reach an agreement to extend their broadcasting contract...
		Arena Football brings all the big hits and non-stop passing plays to life as gamers are put in the middle...
		The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league.
	profootballbetting.us /bet-on-football/11/arena-football-chicago.php (583 words)

	Red-hot Rush one win away from ArenaBowl
		The Rush has never made it to an ArenaBowl, though it went to the conference showdown as the favorite several times.
		The Rush, in the playoffs in all six of its seasons, knocked off the Nashville Kats and the 2005 ArenaBowl champion Colorado Crush on the road in its first two playoff games this season.
		Not bad for a player who was cut by Indiana three years ago and almost cut by Hohensee after his first preseason with the Rush.
	www.suntimes.com /output/rush/cst-spt-rush03.html (533 words)

	Team - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		The Cincinnati Bengals joined the American Football League as an expansion team in 1968.
		The next year, a group headed by Brown was awarded an American Football League franchise that would begin play in 1968.
		Brown named his team the Bengals in recognition of previous Cincinnati pro football franchises with the same name in the 1930s and 1940s.
	www.profootballhof.com /history/team.jsp?franchise_id=7 (842 words)

	Women's American Flag Football Federation
		The Women’s American Flag Football Federation (WAFFF) realizes that there are many variations of the game of women’s flag football—from, 4 on 4; 6 on 6; 7 on 7, etc. WAFFF recognizes all of their variations, however, these rules deal only with what if referred to as full contact (8 on 8) and modified contact.
		WAFFF is a membership organization and, as such, has a duty and an obligation to see that all its members are given access to and the right of comment to the organization.
		The Women's American Flag Football Federation is a membership organization dedicated to the promotion of amateur flag football for women and girls throughout the United States and Canada.
	www.wafff.com /rules.html (338 words)

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