Leagues
Organized sandlot football has been around since as early as 1908; in that year, a circuit was launched in Rochester, New York after the city banned high school football in its schools. The circuit produced a team known as the Rochester Jeffersons, who later joined the National Football League as a charter member in 1920, as well as several other teams that lasted into the 1930s.
Street football is usually played as a pick-up game and has very little organization. The largest and most successful organized league for no pads, tackle football is TownBeef. It was formed in 2006 in New Jersey, USA and has since grown to include more than 30 teams. It has also branched off to form leagues in Florida and Pennsylvania. The exact rules vary from state to state.
In 2012, a backyard football league was created in Davenport, Iowa. Always expanding, the Quad Cities Backyard Football League brings together local semi-pro football players as well as backyard football players from the surrounding areas. Four teams battle during the spring, summer, and fall seasons, to see who's the best. Following a set rules involving a mix between traditional college and pro football rules, the QCBFL is the only organized backyard football league in the upper midwest. Pick-up games are sponsored by the QCBFL and follow the same rules created for league-play. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/qcbfl.
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Famous quotes containing the word leagues:
“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.
“By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summon’d am to a tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
Methinks it is no journey.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)
“Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)