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American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...
, both conventional and indoor. Some of these terms are also in use in Canadian football
Canadian football () is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's scoring area ( ...
; for a list of terms unique to that code, see '' Glossary of Canadian football''.
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See also
*American football positions
In American football, the specific role that a player takes on the field is referred to as their "position". Under the modern rules of American football, both teams are allowed 11 players on the field at one time and have "unlimited free substit ...
* American football strategy
* Comparison of American and Canadian football
* Glossary of Canadian football
References
Sources
* Hickok, Ralph (1977). ''New Encyclopedia or Sports''. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc. {{Glossaries of sportsAmerican football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...
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