For most high school girls, the prospect of playing football has always seemed out of reach. While Title IX guarantees girls the right to try out for tackle football when no girls team exists, the ...

Ohio crowned its first girls flag football champion this month. The inaugural state title game signaled a new era for girls ...

As summer turns to fall, roughly 1.2 million U.S. teens are suiting up to play high school football. But something is shifting in this annual autumn rite. Tens of thousands of those young athletes are ...

The Jersey Shore Wave women's tackle football team's second season in Paterson ended with a 1-5 record. They still hope to ...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Football players were running, throwing, catching, blocking and tackling — with a steady stream of trash talk between whistles — as the sun set on a recent night in the Motor City.

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