National_Women's_Football_Association

National Women's Football Association

National Women's Football Association

Full contact American football league

The National Women's Football Association (NWFA) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in exhibition games. The opening season was in 2001 featuring ten teams.[1] The NWFA did not officially field any teams for the 2009 season.

Quick Facts Sport, Founded ...

The NWFA was originally called the National Women's Football League, but changed its name after the 2002 season. The name change came after pressure from the National Football League.[2] The NFL also required the league to change the logos of some teams whose logos resembled those of NFL teams.

League founder Catherine Masters was inducted into the American Football Association's Semi Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.[3]

League rules

NWFA teams played according to standard National Football League rules with the following notable exceptions:

  • TDY-sized football
  • only one foot in-bounds is required for a reception
  • no blocking below the waist downfield

List of teams

More information Team, Post-2009 status ...

Championship games

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Goodson, Mike (23 July 2004). "Women's football alive in Alabama". Gadsden Times. p. B3. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  2. [2]
    Stellino, Vito (1 December 2002). "Emmitt shows all his tank's not empty yet". The Florida Times-Union. Jacksonville, FL. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014. More evidence that the NFL sometimes takes itself too seriously: Its lawyers forced the National's Women's Football League to change its name to the National Women's Football Association.
  3. [3]
    "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. [4]
    Organ, Mike (22 July 2007). "Passion grounds Comets for title". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
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