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  "American Football is played by two opposing teams of eleven. The football field measures 91.4m by 48.8m and is marked off by latitudinal stripes every 4.57m. At either end there is and end-zone which measures 9.14m across. In the center of each end-zone stand goal posts 6.1m high, with a crossbar 3.05m above the ground and with the uprights on either end 7.2m apart. The object of the game is to move the ball across the opponent's goal line, thereby scoring a touchdown, worth six points......." . Read on. From All Footballs - a basic introduction.  See also Wikipedia  
 
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History - Know the background

 

Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, considered the greatest quarterback/wide receiver combination in NFL history

 Evolution of the Football Sean Fagan explains it all!
History of Football  from Milo; "Most modern versions of football, however, originated in England"
Beginnings of College Football 
NFL History from NFL.com with detailed information about each era, each year, timelines etc eg. chronology 1961-1970 ""Goal posts offset from the goal line, painted bright yellow, and with uprights 20 feet above the cross-bar were made standard in the NFL, May 16.".
 History of Football Directory from Archeolink

Joe Montana Jerry Rice, by Patti LaRue.  Joe Montana and Jerry Rice considered the greatest quarterback/wide receiver combination in NFL history. Even if you aren't a fan of the team they played for you're bound to know of their legendary feats. Multiple Super Bowl winners, multiple record holders, especially Jerry Rice who nearly holds every record to be held by a wide receiver in the NFL. That in itself should probably be a record. "Montana to Rice...." three little words that struck fear into the hearts of nearly every NFL teams defenses for many, many years.
 
  Development of American Football over the last 100 years
About American Football - what American Football is all about
Red Grange Rule 1926 from Football Research: "every member of the National Football League be positively prohibited from enducing or attempting to induce any college player to engage in professional football until his class at college shall have graduated.
"The beginnings of American Football "..a group of prep school boys in Boston formed the Oneida Football Club in 1862.  The boys tired of Soccer and Rugby, perhaps because they could find no one to play. Rather than disband, they occupied their time by inventing a new game, one that combined their favourite features of both soccer and rugby. They liked goal kicking from the former and running with the ball from the latter, and both became features of their hybrid, 'The Boston Game'....."
- one of several articles from The Professional Footballers Research Association 
NFL / AFL Annual Statistical Leaders from HickOkSports
 
About American Football - Know the game;   Glossary from Wikipedia

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American-football from Answers.com, provides a great introduction to the sport
Wikipedia does a great job explaining the game eg Explaining the term First Down etc
Basics of the game from UK Gridiron, with all the information to encourage new people to play the sport; offers to answer questions about the game, Defence and Offense - understand the payer positions and roles
American Football Basics from the About team; Pick up the basics of football, from the object of the game and the various ways to score, to the layout of the football field. You'll also find some of the basic terminology that is associated with the game.
The Game an explanation from Football.com of the objectives and play for a beginner
Beginners Guide  from NFL Europe
College Football rules and answers  to understand the game
Gridiron - definition from Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Point me to Football - a directory with comparison of American, Canadian, Australian Rules and Gaelic Football.
American Football positions from Wikepedia,  including The Quarterback
American Football Explained in some detail by The Generate.com
Scoring and how to play - an introduction to the sport.

Rules "The rules for modern-day football date back to a formal beginning in 1876, when the NCAA, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, drew up their set of 61 rules governing how this game (which itself resulted from soccer and rugby players breaking the rules of their respective games) would be played. Though the rules have been through innumerable changes......."    read on      From Football.com  
  Wikipedia provides god explanations. including scoring from touch-downs, conversions, field goals or a safety
Digest of Rules from NFL Fans prepared to aid players, fans, and members of the press, radio, and television media in their understanding of the game.
History of NFL Rules  the changes from 1869, from Steelers' Fever
The Game from Wikipedia
Rules and Information basics, penalties, dictionary, equipment; rule differences across the various disciples and countries ( NFL, College, CFL, NFL Europe and Arena)
Introduction to College Football Rules The Field, Kick-off, scoring ......; FAQ
 
 
Improve your Game -   Coaches training  The Wide Receiver  Flag Football Drills

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  NFL Film and Superbowl Video 1000's of NFL Film, Clips and Videos. Download Free!
  Tips and Drills to improve your play from NFL Canada
What is a 'Stiff-arm'? advice from Expert Village for running fullbacks.
 
Flag Football Drills
Flag Football drills get new ideas, tips and advice, including some printable materials sure to help you and your players
Flag Football Tips and Drills from International Women's FFA; ills, Skills and tips from NFL/CFL Flag Football Canada
Flag Football Basics  from NFL Flag Football
 
Football Drills for each playing position, from M H E Roth with expert advice
Football Playbook * provides plays and drills, with diagrams that can be read online or downloaded
How to play better football  skills and drills for each position, mental training, reading lists ...
Online Football Playbook    Animated previews of upcoming college football games - an incredibly useful resource to learn from
Quarter Back drills - handling and passing
Warm-up mechanical drills for quarter backs an overview of the drill series used by Purdue University as part of their QB development system
Improve your football with Knowledgehound from a range of links to articles on player positions.
Physics of Football  from 'How-stuff-works' - kicking, throwing, blocking explained!
 
   The Wide Receiver This position, requiring speed and great agility is among the most glamorous in American football. Their role is principally to catch passes from the Quarterback. See Wikipedia.  
  Wide Receiver Plays. Wide Out Patterns    Short Patterns   Pass Offense:

Coachers Training
 American Football Monthly - large collection of football coaching and resources
Coach Help  articles, camps, clinics, jobs, used equipment...
Coach Schorr a free resource for football coaches , especially high school coaches, where they could go for discussion, playbooks, advice, information and resources. Under development
 Football-plays provides commercial, in depth information for youth football at reasonable prices and has a free newsletter with monthly tips. 
Instruction from eTeamz; tips and drills, approaches, clinics, rookies page for beginners
Healthopedia - a medical and health consumer information resource with useful information on  Nutition, 
   Forums get answers to questions or air your views...
Send us your favorite forms and tell us why!
 

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  Allsportsforums an Online Sports Forum. For Discussions About All The Sports News And Topics In Your Area! Sports News, Summer Pro League, History, And College Sports And More!
Football Forum - for all levels of the sport
The About Football Forums lots of active topics
Football.com Forums from NFL to college and fantasy
 
General ( Global) Information    see also   Global covering multi-sports  World Cup

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  American Football
     World Cup		 The first world championship in American football, organised by IFAF, took place in Palermo (Italy) from June 24th until July 4th, 1999, with 6 teams participating  Japan again won in 2003 and are bidding to host the next World Cup in 2007.
 
 
  USA Team not participating in First World Cup (safety concerns?)
World Cup 2003   Japan successfully defends its Title in Frankfurt against France Germany and Mexico

 
American  Leagues    
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NFL 

 Scores,  Standings,  leading players, players alphabetically, by name or position
 
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  Youth Football USA - YFBUSA  introduce little league tackle football to the 3rd to 8th grade, with the goal of teaching the fundamentals of football, the importance of teamwork, and most of all to have fun. The Program, Championships, District contacts, Faq
USA Football an independent non-profit organization whose purpose is to support and expand football at all amateur levels, but does not operate any leagues or teams; League locator,  health and safety, tips to run leagues, articles etc
NCAA Football -see American college football in the WWW library by David Wilson  
  Divided up into Divisions:  I-A, I-AA, II and III with the top teams in  12 conferences in Div I-A     Bowls Series  History and Records  
  NCAA Football official site " to improve, promote and protect the game of college football for those who play the game, for those who coach the game and for those who support the game"; divisional information, scoreboards, records, rules, stats, news, articles..
  Coverage by  Yahoo Sports, Sports Illustrated, Espn, Football.com, NCAA College Football, Fox Sports
Heavyweight Football Champs  If college football's champion were to be determined like boxing, who would be the champion? This looks at the question going back to the very first college football game. "Who are the REAL National Champions"
 
SouthEastern Conference
SEC Sports everything About the Southeastern Conference (SEC); all the sports, Multi-media. community; Football Standings
SEC Football    Links to all SEC Football Schools, SEC Football Schedules, SEC Sports and Campus Newspapers, SEC Message Boards, and Southeastern Conference Fan Sites.
 
History and Records
  College Football History  learn about the history of every college team in the NCAA; the site also has some useful information on team selection for Bowl games
College Football Data Warehouse  focuses on the historical data of college football
College Football Encyclopaedia  (CFE) - Detailed yearly team records, bowl summaries, coaching records, team and individual award and trophy winners, top 10 listings.  content.
College Football Historical Rankings to 2001
Div 1A Historical scores from J Howell.
NCAA Football Statistics all divisions

College Football Rankings points, National championships, coaching records....
                                                                             NCAA Tickets and Accommodation  
BCS Bowls series  Four Major events played at the turn of the year
   Which Teams go to which Bowls?   from College Football News - the BCS system
   Fanblogs  College football weblog covering all the latest news and notes from the top conferences: Big10, Big12, Big East, ACC, Pac10, SEC, Conference USA, Mountain West, MAC, WAC, Division I-AA, Notre Dame

    Rose Bowl        see our separate coverage                 Tickets and Accommodation  
Orange Bowl   see our separate coverage                 
Fiesta Bowl     see our separate coverage                      
Sugar Bowl played in the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans 
  Nokia Sugar Bowl official Site
  Coverage by Espn (History)                                
   
NFL Professional Football League
                       NFL Teams		  Season Starts 8th Sept 2005  New page in SportsVL
 St Louis Ramst- the first new NFL team page.		  
         
Superbowl

6th Feb 2005
Jacksonville		 The Super Bowl is the climax of the American Football season. The champions of the NFC (National Football Conference) and the AFC (American Football Conference) meet in one the world's great sporting events to decide who will carry away the Vince Lombardi Trophy as annual champions of the NFL (National Football League). These two champions are determined in  a gruelling round of knock-out play-offs between the winners of the four divisions and two wild card teams in in each conference.   See Detail
 		  
Women's American Rugby         Message Board
   General Information
  Boos unofficial guide to Women's American Football
Skilton's Links to Women's Football provides links to teams for the major leagues
   Leagues
  Women's American Flag Football dedicated to the promotion of amateur flag football for women and girls throughout the United States and Canada. Rules, tournaments, leagues and teams,
 Women's Football League Professional Contact   based in Nashville Tennesee, with 6 teams in 2004
 
Women's Pro Tackle Football Women’s American tackle football is now established as part of women’s professional sports. There are 3 leagues in the USA. Approx 90 teams in all combined.
  The Independent Women's Football League,  founded in 2000, focused on creating a positive, safe and fun environment for the women who play the game and fans that come out to watch them. They run more than 30 teams across North America from Southern California to Montreal and Oregon to Florida. News, schedules, scores, stats, Teams, players
      Oregon Thunder; Portland Shockwave Tacoma Majestics
National Women's Football Association  (NWFA History)also formed in 2000, operate over 40 teams in a Northern and Southern Conference. Scores, stats, standings, Teams 
         Maine Freeze  based in Portland, ME
Women's Professional Football League formed in 1999 and operate with 16 teams in 4 geographic Divisions. News, teams, schedules, ask the ref.......
     Background from Wikipedia; history
   History
  Queens of the Gridiron a tribute to the women and girls who have dared to play tackle football over the years -  National Women's Football League of the 1970s, but also junior high and high school girls who played tackle football.
Princesses of the Gridiron celebrating the increasing number of girls who dare to take to the gridiron. Timeline history,
 

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America by District  Australia, New Zealand , Canada, 
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International Leagues and team from PointMe to:

     America by District  (a new section for this page, still developing)

Washington  
  Washington Scout Covers all college football teams with a focus on the Washington Huskies
Seattle Seahawks (NFL)
Tacoma Majestics  a woman's full contact football team playing in the Independent Women's Football League
  New Zealand  
 
  Gridiron New Zealand premier American Football organisation, running competitions and programs throughout New Zealand.
New Zealand American Football Association news, schedules, standings, clubs  etc
Auckland Youth American Football    information on the Auckland Gridiron Conference (for players under the age of 19 years) and the Auckland Junior Gridiron Leagues (for players under the age of 17 years)
Flag Football NZ introduced to Auckland schools in 1997 , now league competition is spreading wider.
American Football Wellington: Storm, clubs, standings, stats, championships, player awards etc
Haka the national NZ side
Kiwi Bowl New Zealand's longest and most important gridiron superbowl championship.
New Zealand Haka New Zealand's representative team
  Australia  
 
  Australian Gridiron Coaches Association  provides local and National guidance for the coaches of  Gridiron in Australia and has also developed a National Gridiron Coaches accreditation program
Northern District Pirates Australia; community based non-profit American Football club representing the northern suburbs of Adelaide  Players aged 6-50
 
   
  Canada  
 
  Canadian Football League. Official site; live scoreboard; all the news, schedules, player information, stats etc you could want.
Coverage of the CFL from CBS SportsLine; Excite Sports;
CFL for kids for the younger members - history, the Grey Cup. video play, teams.
CFL Hall of Fame and Museum 
CFL links - The Very Unofficial 
Canadian Football League Players Association 
Canadian Juniors Football League 
Canadian Seniors Football League
 
  Europe                   NFL Europe         Austria Ireland  UK Others
 
       NFL Europe This league was operated by NFL  It had a triple role of  developing American football in Europe,  generating interest in the sport around the world and producing many of today’s NFL stars. It operated with six teams from Holland Germany and Scotland, playing 10 games - each team home and away, starting in mid March, with the top two teams competing in June for the World Bowl. 2007 is to be the last season
More detail from NFL.com  and Wikipedia and the official site, below.
 
NFL Europe official site standings, latest news, schedules stats, features, History,  World Bowl 
 
    
Demise of the European NFL from BBC sport
European Gridiron  Currently TNFJ is resting peacefully, and will not return with new content in the immediate future. We do expect to return somewhere down the line, but for now this site is an archive. The European Forum is stil active along with a few other sections.
European Federation of American Football: the head organisation for American Football in Europe.  promoting and developing American Football, Flag Football and Cheerleading. Responsible for  Eurobowl and the European Championships and other competitions. Members. top 20 etc
Article from Easyjet covering the league and its status in 2003
Eurobowl official site; news, schedules, standings, teams, schedule, archived information...
 
  Ireland
    Irish American Football League runs competitive league football in Ireland. This site contains information on the league, teams and the history of American football in Ireland.  The IAFL is affiliated to the Irish American Football Association (IAFA), which is the National Governing Body (NGB) for American football in Ireland. The Shamrock Bowl.
History of American Football in Ireland; the Dublin Celts were the first team formed in 1985......The development of the National team and Flag football is presented
The IAFL from Logoserver - a collection of team, league, and tournament logos of mostly minor league, semi-pro, historical, and obscure teams from a variety of sports.
Irish American Football Scene Forums talk about the teams
 
  Austria
 
  American Football in Austria  covering Events, Coaching, Playing Football and Stats
Austrian federation (AFBOE) in German, waiting for am English version!
 
 
UK Run by the British American Football Association. The British Senior League operates with over 35 clubs playing a regular season between April and August, culminating with playoffs for the BritBowl in late September. The British Collegiate American Football League have Northern and Southern Conferences with a total of  37 university teams in 8 geographic Divisions. The regular season is October to February with playoffs for the College Bowl in March
    UK Gridiron UK  British Senior League official website. Teams, news, results, fixtures league tables, Game basics. Britbowl
   The Yorkshire Rams
Britball Now Results service for UK Gridiron with extensive links section covering UK and Irish sites
  Forum
British Collegiate American Football League official site 
British Cheerleading Asociation the officially recognised Governing Body for Cheerleading in Britain, maintaining standards, and organising training; qualifications; competitions and other events
Links to UK Gridiron sites to find the clubs nearest to you
Scottish American Football -  (Under Center) news, teams, history, features.
 
  Other European Teams        Greece, Italy, Spain
    Greece American Football in Greece " No organised league , not even a single team.."
Italy      Federation Italiana American Football  no English coverage
Spain    NFL Spain no English coverage
             Barcelona Dragons  have competed in NFL Europe; no English coverage
             Salt Falcons dated information; History and coverage of the 1996/1997 season
 
  Far East  
 
  Japanese American Football association founded way back in 1834 with 3 collegiate teams (History), it operates at all levels in Japan, from High School to University;  bidding for the 2007 World Cup

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CWC Sports Inc:   NFL yearbook. Full color cover to cover. Information for the fans by the teams
Football Card Gallery   Comprehensive gallery of 1950's and 1960's football cards, searchable by player, team, set, or college
Near Mint Cards  1950's and 1960's football cards for sale.
Football Skills development from TouchdownSkills; dedicated to players and coaches who are serious about developing football skills, via training aids and football coaching videos. Also has training tip each week
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