The Irish American Football League (IAFL) is an amateur American football league in Ireland. Founded in 1984, it consists of 11 teams competing in two divisions, along with a further two teams competing in a development league. The 2012 season will run from February through to July, when two teams will contest the league's championship game, the Shamrock Bowl. A separate College Bowl tournament takes place in November or December of each year among collegiate members of the league.
The Belfast Trojans are the current league champions, having won Shamrock Bowl XXVI. Trinity College are collegiate champions after winning College Bowl V.
Read more about Irish American Football League: Structure, League MVP Award Winners
Famous quotes containing the words irish, american, football and/or league:
“The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchen ... is usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“... many American Jews have a morbid tendency to exaggerate their handicaps and difficulties. ... There is no doubt that the Jew ... has to be twice as good as the average non- Jew to succeed in many a field of endeavor. But to dwell upon these injustices to the point of self-pity is to weaken the personality unnecessarily. Every human being has handicaps of one sort or another. The brave individual accepts them and by accepting conquers them.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward the Light Brigade!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)