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History of Flag Football

by Katie Hynes       Period 8

From The Beginning...

First tackle football games date back to the mid-1800s.

Flag football started in the American military in the 1940s.

During the late 1940s to early 1950s, recreational flag football leagues strated popping up around America.

In the 1960s, the first flag football organization was formed in St. Louis called the National Touch Football League.

By the 1970s, flag football had spread to hundreds of college campuses around the country.

The University of New Orleans hosted the first National Collegiate Flag Football Championship in 1979.

Flag football is now a professional sport with a fairly large following.

Although touch football began as a male sport, it is now played by both males and females!

Did you know?

Kevin Durant was the first millionaire flag football player.

Here is a video explaining the basics of flag football!

That was just a few of the basic facts of the history of flag football. For more information visit https://www.nflflag.com/pages/websites



Websites I used-


http://sports.bluesombrero.com/Default.aspx?tabid=605312


http://web.mst.edu/~ima/rules/Flag%20Footballrules.html


http://americanflag.football/