Canadian football, or simply football, is a sport in Canada in which two teams of 12 players compete on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into
Calgary Stampeders (in red) vs. Montreal Alouettes game in 2007
A game between the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders, 1910
A game between the 4th Canadian Armoured Division Atoms and First Canadian Army Red and Blue Bombers, in Utrecht, Netherlands, October 1945
Touchdown monument outside the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in Hamilton, Ontario
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with
Canadian football
…field 110 yards (101 m) long and 65 yards (59 m) wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone. Canadian and American football have shared origins and are closely related, but have some significant differences. Canadian football is played with three downs, goalposts…
Larry Fitzgerald (in blue) catches a pass while Cortland Finnegan (in red) plays defense at the 2009 Pro Bowl.
Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", in 1878 when Camp was captain of Yale University's football team
The dangers associated with the sport depicted in a 1908 cartoon by William Charles Morris
A quarterback for the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes in Germany under center and ready to take the snap