There have been many attempts to ban football, from the Middle Ages through to the modern days. The first such law was passed in England in 1314; it was...

Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the...

and 1667, football was officially banned in England alone by more than 30 royal and local laws. (See the article Attempts to ban football games for more...

was revived in May 1930). There have been many attempts to ban football, from the Middle Ages through to the modern day. The first such law was passed...

the early 1860s, there were increasing attempts in England to unify and reconcile the various football games that were played in the public schools as...

(3-yard line in amateur football) to attempt to score (in the NFL, 15-yard line on 1-point conversions). Conversion attempts are used to score 1 or 2 points...

rules football – a combination of Gaelic football and Australian rules football. The International Rules Series, an annual series of two games between...

century out of older games related to modern rugby football, more specifically rugby union football. Early on, American and Canadian football developed alongside...

each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with the ball or throwing it,...

football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played...

there were accounts of games played between County sides (Prior, 1997). By the early 19th century, various football games, referred to collectively as caid...

football–playing countries in activities of freestyle football and keepie uppie. It is also similar to traditional Asian games of kicking the shuttlecock, known as jianzi...

the referee to interpret and enforce the Laws of the Game. There were various attempts to codify rules among the various types of football in the mid-19th...

association football using feet, lower legs, knees, chest, shoulders, and head, without allowing the ball to hit the ground. It is similar to Kemari, a...

Australian team competing in the Stoke Mandeville games in England were invited by the Canadians to select a team to play them in a demonstration game. After receiving...

traced to football matches played in Melbourne, in 1858, inspired by English public school football games. Seeking to develop a game more suited to adults...

zone for 2 points off conversion attempts; offending team can get 1 point if safety is scored off conversion attempts. There are seven women on each side...

high-level Canadian football games. The CFL's controversial "South Division" as it would come to be officially known attempted to put CFL teams in the...

is not the fashionable game, so nobody dares to propose it." The Collegers v. Oppidans match was banned in 1827 for ten years after a fight broke out...

game. Touch football can be played by teams of as few as two or as many as twelve on each side; usually, games consist of teams of four to seven.[citation...

to the ground – by an attacking player to complete the rouge for five points. Rouges are similar to tries in that the scoring team then attempts to convert...

Penn (and formerly Princeton prior to it dropping the sport) hold alumni games in which sprint football alumni return to campus for a full-contact scrimmage...

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high school rulebook allows games to be held on a normal 100-yd (91-m) by 531⁄3-yd (48.8-m) field used in eleven-man football if the teams and leagues so...

the fun being had by the carefree adolescents. Numerous attempts were made to ban football games, particularly the most rowdy and disruptive forms. This...

Touch rugby refers to games derived from rugby football in which players do not tackle each other but instead touch their opponents using their hands on...

many forms of football had been played across the world, it was only during the second half of the 19th century that these games began to be codified....

goals, each guarded by the opposite team members or a goalie. Each team attempts to throw the ball into the goal. However, unlike soccer, there are multiple...

point range, with "high scoring" games reaching the 70s and "low scoring" games falling below 30. Eight-man football is noted for producing multi-skilled...

formed to allow the ball to be brought back into play. 1900 NRFU Implemented: 1900–01 Northern Rugby Football Union season. Defenders were banned from charging...