What Is Football?

What Is Football? book cover — LET FIND OUT SPORTS WHAT IS FOOTBALL SIYAVUSH SAIDIAN Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

What Is Football? — page 1 — A new nAtionAl PAstime While baseball is traditionally regarded as America’s national pastime football has been the country’s most popular sport for some time Millions of people in the United States consider autumn to be football season Football is a very popular sport that is played by people of all ages from grade-schoolers to trained professionals It involves running passing kicking and body contact Vocabulary Professionals are people who are paid to perform an activity 4

What Is Football? — page 2 — The Saskatchewan Roughriders with green helmets and Edmonton Eskimos are two Canadian football teams A football game is played between two teams of eleven players each A team scores points by moving a ball across the other team’s goal line or kicking a ball through the other team’s goalpost The team that scores more points wins This game sometimes called American football is played mainly in the United States Canadian football is similar to the US game In most countries the word football refers to the sport of soccer The New York Jets in green jerseys and Miami Dolphins are two professional football teams in the United States 5

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