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Women's American Football
2022
Overview
Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a
time when men's participation rates are decreasing, an increasing
number of women are entering the gridiron-and they have a long
history of doing so. Women's American Football is a
narrative history of girls and women participating in American
football in the United States since the 1920s, when a women's team
played at halftime during an early NFL game. The women's game
became more organized in 1974, when the National Women's Football
League was established, with notable teams such as the Dallas
Bluebonnets, Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit
Demons. Today there are two main professional leagues in the United
States: the Women's Football Alliance, with nearly seventy teams,
and the Women's National Football Conference, with eighteen, in
addition to a number of smaller leagues. The National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL have recently begun
sponsoring flag football teams at the college level, and the game
is growing for high school girls as well. In 2021 more than two
thousand girls played on mostly boys' teams, and there are
currently four all-girls leagues in the United States and Canada,
in Manitoba, Utah, Indiana, and New Brunswick. In addition to the
rapid growth of women playing football, there have been
advancements in other areas of the game. Beginning with Jennifer
Welter in 2015, several women have earned positions coaching the
professional game. In 2020 ESPN aired Born to Play , a
documentary on the Boston Renegades, the 2019 champion of the
Women's Football Alliance. Based on extensive interviews with women
players and focusing closely on leagues, teams, and athletes since
the passage of Title IX in 1972, Russ Crawford illuminates the rich
history of the women who have played football, breaking barriers on
and off the field.
Publisher
Nebraska,University of Nebraska Press
Subject
ISBN
9781496233332, 1496233336
