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Women's Professional Football League (WPFL) 1965-1973
The Women's Professional American Football League (WPFL) was a women's professional American football league in the United States. With teams across the United States, the WPFL had its first game in 1999 with just two original teams: the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota Vixens. Fifteen teams nationwide competed for the championship in 2006. Unlike the other women's American football franchises, the WPFL operated as a fall league and not a spring league. History In 1999 two businessmen, Carter Turner and Terry Sullivan, decided to research the feasibility of a professional women’s football league by gathering together top female athletes into two teams and playing an exhibition game in front of an audience. The game between the Lake Michigan Minx and the Minnesota Vixens at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota was a success and turned into a six-game exhibition tour across the country dubbed the “No Limits” Barnstorming Tour. The success of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 with possession of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with the ball or passing it, while the defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs or plays; if they fail, they turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the drive. Points are scored primarily by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins. American football evolved in the United States, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 WPFL Season
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Leagues Of American Football
This is a list of current and defunct leagues of American football and Canadian football. Leagues in North America Current professional leagues in North America Professional outdoor leagues ''Major'' * National Football League (NFL), 1920– ::Originally American Professional Football Conference, American Professional Football Association (1920–1921) ::Merged with the American Football League (1960–69) * Canadian Football League (CFL), 1958– (Grey Cup Canadian Football Championships since 1909) ::Formed from Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (1909) and Western Interprovincial Football Union (1936). ''Other'' * XFL, 2020; 2023– * Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional (LFA), 2016– * United States Football League, 2022– Professional arena/indoor leagues * Indoor Football League, (14 teams) 2009– ::Formed from United Indoor Football and Intense Football League * Champions Indoor Football, (7 teams) 2015– ::Formed from Champions Professional Indoor Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football Women's League
The American Football Women's League (AFWL) which debuted on May 15, 2002, was one of the first women's football leagues formed, originally using the name ''WAFL'', or ''Women's American Football League'' in 2001. The AFWL officially disbanded in March 2003, due to money and attendance problems. AFWL teams *Arizona Titans *Long Beach Aftershock * Los Angeles Lasers * Sacramento Gold Rush ? * San Diego Sunfire * San Francisco Tsunami AFWL Championships See also *Women's Professional Football League (WPFL) *Women's Football in the United States *List of leagues of American football This is a list of current and defunct leagues of American football and Canadian football. Leagues in North America Current professional leagues in North America Professional outdoor leagues ''Major'' * National Football League (NFL), 192 ... {{Women's gridiron football leagues Defunct American football leagues in the United States Sports leagues established in 2002 Sports leagues dise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Women's Football Association
The National Women's Football Association (NWFA) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in exhibition games. The opening season was in 2001 featuring ten teams. The NWFA did not officially field any teams for the 2009 season. The NWFA was originally called the National Women's Football League, but changed its name after the 2002 season. The name change came after pressure from the National Football League. The NFL also required the league to change the logos of some teams whose logos resembled those of NFL teams. League founder Catherine Masters was inducted into the American Football Association's Semi Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. League rules NWFA teams played according to standard National Football League rules with the following notable exceptions: * TDY-sized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Women's Football League
The Independent Women's Football League (IWFL) was the first Women's American football league established by women players for women players. The league was founded in 2000, began play in 2001, and played its last season in 2018. Members of the original roster of the Austin Outlaws were the league's founders. Following the establishment of the league as a separate entity from the team, former outlaws players Laurie Frederick, Jaime Bailey and Sandra Plato became the original IWFL executive council. The players were amateur/semi pro and had to cover part of their expenses. 2019 Season Teams Central Division Pacific Division Expansion 2020/ Inactive Teams Former IWFL teams playing elsewhere * Arlington Impact – played in the IWFL from 2012–14, now in Women's Football Alliance. *Austin Outlaws – now in Women's Football Alliance. * D.C. Divas – played in the IWFL from 2007–2010, now in Women's Football Alliance. *Houston Energy – now in Women's Football Alliance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Football In The United States
Women's American football in the United States is the American football sport played by women, both regionally in the United States and worldwide in the IFAF Women's World Championship. History American football has been played by women, both regionally in the United States and worldwide in the IFAF Women's World Championship. Women have played in leagues accessible to both genders and in leagues designed exclusively for women. * The Women's Professional Football League (1965–1973) was formed in 1963. It stopped operations in 1973. * In 1970, Patricia Palinkas became the holder of the Orlando Panthers and became the first woman to play in the Atlantic Coast Football League. * The Women's Professional Football League operated again between 1999 and 2007. * A second league, the Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000. In 2009 were founded the Women's Football Alliance and The X League. * In 2010, Katie Hnida became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football In The United States
American football is the most popular sport in the United States. The National Football League has the highest revenue and average attendance of any sports league in the world. In the United States the game is most often referred to as simply " football". Organization in the United States There is no single national governing body for American football in the United States or a continental governing body for North America. There is an international governing body, the International Federation of American Football, or IFAF. Befitting its status as a popular sport, football is played in leagues of different size, age and quality, in all regions of the country. A team / academy may be referred to as a 'football program' – not to be confused with football program. Professional The governing body for American football in the United States is USA Football. The 32-team National Football League (NFL) is currently the only major American football league in the United States. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 WPFL Season
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 WPFL Season
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 WPFL Season
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
