And some tension formed between Sid and his vision and the women who showed up to play. They wanted to play real football - real tackle football - and he wanted something different. So the players ...

They were there to try out for the Herricanes, a new women’s full-tackle football team. Nope, not flag. Not powderpuff. These women were there to hit. “There were fifty or sixty women at that ...

Now, the restored national landmark, once home to Negro League baseball in the 1930s, will host the female tackle football team. The Wave will play all three of its home games at Hinchliffe ...

It’s an apt description for Ms. Jenkins, a native of what was then known as South-Central Los Angeles, who has distinguished herself in the world of female tackle football as a Women’s ...

BERNALILLO, N.M. — The ABQ Royals are a team of women who love playing football, but not two-hand touch or flag football, but full contact tackle football. “We do put on pads, we put on ...

Now entering its sixth season, the WNFC is a semi-professional tackle football league. Players suit up in pads and helmets, and the women are here to win. They travel to play teams in their ...

Kiley Coyne, an assistant director of admission for the music department who just happens to play on a women’s tackle football team in her spare time, eagerly added coaching to her duties at the ...

The Vikings’ roster includes 23 young women, who are hungry to play and ... “The rules are fairly simple, there’s no contact like in tackle football,” Coyne said. “But it could be ...

The Steel women’s tackle football team is promoting female empowerment as they kick off their season on Saturday. Founded in 2011, they are a part of the Western Women’s Canadian Football ...

She plays for the Kansas City Glory in the professional women’s tackle football league. “It made me really emotional because I started when I was six-years-old. I was always told that as well ...

Elena Easley, an 8-year-old second-grader from Minnesota, has been invited to the season opener of the KC Glory women’s semi-professional football team after a boy at her school told her girls ...