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Monday, January 17, 2011

Present day codes and families: Rugby school football and descendants

Rugby school football and descendants:

    * Rugby football
          o Rugby league — often referred to simply as "league", and usually known simply as "football" or "footy" in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland.
                + Rugby league nines (or sevens)
                + Touch football (rugby league) — a non-contact version of rugby league. Often called simply "touch", in South Africa it is known as "six down"
          o Rugby union
                + Rugby sevens
                  Rugby sevens; Fiji v Cook Islands at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
          o Beach rugby — rugby played on sand
          o Touch rugby — generic name for forms of rugby football which do not feature tackles
                + Tag Rugby — a non-contact version of rugby, in which a velcro tag is removed to indicate a tackle
    * Gridiron football
          o American football — called "football" in the United States and Canada, and "gridiron" in Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes called "tackle football" to distinguish it from the touch versions
          o Indoor football, arena football — an indoor version of American football
          o Nine-man football, eight-man football, six-man football — versions of tackle football, played primarily by smaller high schools that lack enough players to field full 11-man teams
          o Touch football (American) — non-tackle American football
                + Flag football — non-tackle American football, like touch football, in which a flag that is held by velcro on a belt tied around the waist is pulled by defenders to indicate a tackle
          o Street football (American) — American football played in backyards without equipment and with simplified rules
          o Canadian football — called simply "football" in Canada; "football" in Canada can mean either Canadian or American football depending on context
                + Canadian flag football — non-tackle Canadian football
                + Nine-man football — similar to nine-man American football, but using Canadian rules; played by smaller schools in Saskatchewan that lack enough players to field full 12-man teams

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