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After the lunch broke, we walked to the Trump-Putin press conference, which started about 6 p.m. As Kelly observed to me at some point, there were now two military aides in the room, each carrying his country's nuclear football. It is a quadrennial tournament and is likely the most popular sporting event in the world, drawing billions of television viewers every tournament. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'football.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Most important, after falling into a rut offensively the past few years, the Huskies are playing an exciting brand of football that tests defenses downfield over and over.

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Two teams of usually between 11 and 18 players; some variations that have fewer players are also popular. From Herm Edwards to Charlie Weis to Derek Dooley, some college football hires in recent years have been doomed to fail. Found primarily in subtitling of television and movies, due to its brevity, where fotboll could be interpreted as association football.

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Player pages include basic statistics and links to player's gamelogs, splits, advanced analytic stats, and more. The Big 12 will not play divisions those two years, though it may revisit such a split in 2025 when the league moves back to 12 members. Sports Illustrated first reported the scheduling details, noting that Big 12 executives agreed to the format this week in Dallas. "Rugby is now the fastest growing sport in the U.S. and BIG changes to high school rugby – Your Hub". Calcio Fiorentino – a modern revival of Renaissance football from 16th century Florence.

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Batt comes to Georgia Tech after working for five years at Alabama, most recently as its executive deputy AD, chief operating officer and chief revenue officer. Re-read some of The Athletic's best ahead of an exciting slate of games. An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth mannerThat budget item became a political football.

Davin's rules showed the influence of games such as hurling and a desire to formalise a distinctly Irish code of football. The prime example of this differentiation was the lack of an offside rule . In 1880, Yale coach Walter Camp, who had become a fixture at the Massasoit House conventions where the rules were debated and changed, devised a number of major innovations.

C. A. Harrison's committee accommodated the Geelong Football Club's rules, making the game then known as "Victorian Rules" increasingly distinct from other codes. It soon adopted cricket fields and an oval ball, used specialised goal and behind posts, and featured bouncing the ball while running and spectacular high marking. Football was adopted by a number of public schools as a way of encouraging competitiveness and keeping youths fit.

Wedderburn refers to what has been translated into modern English as "keeping goal" and makes an allusion to passing the ball ("strike it here"). There is a reference to "get hold of the ball", suggesting that some handling was allowed. It is clear that the tackles allowed included the charging and holding of opposing players ("drive that man back"). In the 16th century, the city of Florence celebrated the period between Epiphany and Lent by playing a game which today is known as "calcio storico" ("historic kickball") in the Piazza Santa Croce. The young aristocrats of the city would dress up in fine silk costumes and embroil themselves in a violent form of football.

Ranking all 131 FBS teams after Week 6 of the college football season, including a fast surge by James Madison, which is 5-0. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, estimated that at the turn of the 21st century there were approximately 250 million football players worldwide. There's still a ton of football to be played, but these players and teams disappointed in the first month fantasypandit of the 2022 NFL season. The Jayhawks last started 5-0 in that 2009 season, then proceeded to drop their next six games and fall to the bottom of major college football for more than a decade. In the strongest week of the college football season yet, three pairs of unbeatens clash, Illinois and Syracuse look to maintain surprising division leads, and USC and Utah battle for the lead of the Pac-12.

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