American football
See also: American Football
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American football (uncountable) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
- A game similar to rugby football played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide (with two 10 yard-long endzones) in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:
- "Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."
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- Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world.
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American football