American football

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American football (uncountable) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)

1. A game similar to rugby football played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide (with two 10 yard-long endzones) in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."

• Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world.

• American handegg
• handegg

• gridiron football

• association football
• Canadian football
• North American football
• football
• gridiron
• rugby
• rugby football
• soccer