Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a
time when men's participation rates are decreasing, an increasing
number of women are entering the gridiron-and they have a long
history of doing so. Women's American Football is a narrative
history of girls and women participating in American football in
the United States since the 1920s, when a women's team played at
halftime during an early NFL game. The women's game became more
organized in 1974, when the National Women's Football League was
established, with notable teams such as the Dallas Bluebonnets,
Toledo Troopers, Oklahoma City Dolls, and Detroit Demons. Today
there are two main professional leagues in the United States: the
Women's Football Alliance, with nearly seventy teams, and the
Women's National Football Conference, with eighteen, in addition to
a number of smaller leagues. The National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics and the NFL have recently begun
sponsoring flag football teams at the college level, and the game
is growing for high school girls as well. In 2021 more than two
thousand girls played on mostly boys' teams, and there are
currently four all-girls leagues in the United States and Canada,
in Manitoba, Utah, Indiana, and New Brunswick. In addition to the
rapid growth of women playing football, there have been
advancements in other areas of the game. Beginning with Jennifer
Welter in 2015, several women have earned positions coaching the
professional game. In 2020 ESPN aired Born to Play, a documentary
on the Boston Renegades, the 2019 champion of the Women's Football
Alliance. Based on extensive interviews with women players and
focusing closely on leagues, teams, and athletes since the passage
of Title IX in 1972, Russ Crawford illuminates the rich history of
the women who have played football, breaking barriers on and off
the field.
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