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    Safety of Starting Sprint Positions in American Football In “What is the Safest Sprint Starting Position for American Football Players?,” a scientific research article, authors Bruno Bonnechere, Benoit Beyer, Marcel Rooze, and Jan Serge Van Sint explain their elaborate plan to find the safest sprint starting position for American football players. Three starting sprint positions are used in the experiment: 4-point, 3-point, and 2-point positions (Bonnechere, Beyer, Rooze, Sint, 2014). Sport-related concussions run aimlessly throughout American football and scientists test sprint starting positions in hopes of decreasing the number of those concussions. Sprint starting positions influence a player’s kinetic energy and view of the football…

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    Have you ever wondered how the sport football began? In 1869 the sport rugby was popular in colleges around the world. People would play the sport rugby and they played it a lot. But in the sport of rugby the people would get hurt because they played with no pads on the players. In 1880, a rugby player from Yale University, named Walter Camp changed the rules of rugby and transformed it into American football. Walter camp is known as “the father of football”, he was apart of the group called…

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    Do you know football is the most popular sport in America and ranked ninth in the world. 111.9 million people watched American football since 2005. In 1880s, a great rugby player changed the rules that later transformed rugby into American football. There are several ways to score and there are several positions and penalties in the National Football League (NFL). There are several positions on offense, defense, and special teams. There are eight offensive positions. First is a quarterback…

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    American Football Is a high impact sport that is played in either the formation of 11 vs. 11 or 9 vs. 9. The popular form is 11 vs. 11 and it is played worldwide including major leagues such as the NFL (National Football League) or the NCAA (National College athlete associate). American Football has different variations that include flag football and touch football. These two variation are none contact and do not require protective gear as would be needed in tackle football. A professional…

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    In American Football you have many different phases of the game. Defense is one of those phases. In earliest decades of football competition pro football coaches stacked the line with approximately nine-seven and six defense fronts to stop opponents from heavy running of their day. In the 1940s, in National Football League (also known as NFL) coach name Greasy Neale alter the nine-seven-six defense into five man fronts and four men secondary that was successful in defending the run and pass. By…

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    The sport we in the United States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the…

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    saying, “Man, I don’t think there’s a word that can really describe J.J. He affects the game in so many ways, whether it’s knocking down passes or sacking the quarterback or just even causing confusion on the play.” J.J Watt is one of the most feared defensive players in the entire National Football League. He is on track to be one of the best defensive ends ever to play the game of football. In just four seasons, J.J totaled fifty-seven sacks. J.J Watt is an unbelievable football player. J.J…

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    Phuc Thien Minh Tran ENG102 Professor: Tolbert “Soccer Vs. Football Around the World” Soccer and Football are two sports that people around the world always have misunderstood about. Football is mainly an American sport, but it is growing rapidly around the world. Soccer in the other hand is played worldwide. Although soccer and football are similar because they are both famous sports. Soccer become more popular than football because football is more concentrated in US. Soccer players are…

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    drive, I begin to feel anxious, stressed out. Today is the first playoff game of my senior year of football. I search through my phone to find the right song while at a stop light.…

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    Emotional Intelligence Flag football was exciting, but I was ecstatic for my first padded practice the summer going into sixth grade. It was my first football practice in full pads and I was so excited, I had only played flag football up until this so this was going to be the best day of my life. I was actually going to play real football, but I never thought that it would teach me one of the most influential lessons that I have ever learned. It was the perfect day for football, mid-seventies…

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