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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : American football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Arena football is a variant of American football.
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.
Football is played at a number of levels in the United States and abroad.
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 American football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Canadian football is a close relative to the sport with a few key differences; the word "football" in Canada can mean American football or Canadian football depending on context.
Most penalties result in moving the football either towards the endzone in the case of a defensive penalty, or away from the endzone in the case of an offensive penalty.
Tackle football is often banned in American schoolyards in favor of touch football, which uses two-hand touching instead of tackling; or flag football in which a player is "tackled" when an opponent pulls a flag off a belt attached to the player's waist.
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 American football - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute (typically 12 minutes in high school football) periods (called quarters), with an intermission (called halftime) after the second quarter.
It has been said that football is the closest sport that strategically resembles real war, which may explain why it is by far the most popular sport in the American military.
A spring professional football league, the All American Football League, is presently being formed.
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 American football in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Canadian football, which also descended from rugby, is closely related to the American sport with a few key differences; the word "football" in Canada can mean American football or Canadian football depending on context.
Football is played on a rectangular field 120 yards (110 metres) long by 53 1/3 yards (49 metres) wide.
American football is indeed quite physical in comparison to other major American team sports, such as basketball and baseball.
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