’12 players’ on each side
(as opposed to ’11 players’ in the ‘NFL’)
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*2014*
(the ‘calgary stampeders’ defeat the ‘hamilton tiger-cats’ to win the ‘grey cup’)
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(“canadian football” (french: football canadien) is a form of ‘gridiron football’ played in ‘canada’ in which 2 teams of 12 players each compete for ‘territorial control’ of a ‘field of play’ 110 yards (or ‘101 meters’) long and ’65 yards’ (or ’59 meters’) wide attempting to advance a ‘pointed prolate spheroid ball’ into the opposing team’s ‘scoring area’ (aka ‘end zone’))
(in ‘canada’, the term “football” may refer to ‘canadian football’ and ‘american football’ collectively, or to either sport specifically, depending on ‘context’)
(the 2 sports have shared origins and are closely related but have significant differences)
(‘rugby football’ in ‘canada’ originated in the ‘early 1860s’, and over time, the game known as ‘canadian football’ developed)
(both the ‘canadian football league’ (CFL), the sport’s top ‘professional league’, and ‘football canada’, the governing body for ‘amateur play’, trace their roots to ‘1880’ and the founding of the ‘canadian rugby football union’)
(active teams such as the ‘toronto argonauts’ and ‘hamilton tiger-cats’ have similar longevity)
(the ‘CFL’ is the ‘most popular’ and only ‘major professional canadian football league’)
(its championship game (the ‘grey cup’) is one of canada’s largest sporting events, attracting a broad television audience, though it has been shrinking in recent years)
(in 2009, about 40% of canada’s population watched part of the game; in 2014, it was closer to 33%, peaking at 5.1 million viewers in the ‘4th quarter’)
(‘canadian football’ is also played at the ‘bantam’, ‘high school’, ‘junior’, ‘collegiate’, and ‘semi-professional’ levels: the ‘canadian junior football league’, formed ‘8 may 1974’, and ‘quebec junior football league’ are leagues for players aged 18 – 22, many ‘post-secondary institutions’ compete in ‘U Sports football’ for the ‘vanier cup’, and ‘senior leagues’ such as the ‘alberta football league’ have grown in popularity in recent years)
(great achievements in ‘canadian football’ are enshrined in the ‘canadian football hall of fame’ located in ‘hamilton’ (ontario))
(other organizations across ‘canada’ perform ‘senior league canadian football’ during the ‘summer’)
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