*** Welcome to piglix ***

Angleball


Angleball is a brand of athletic equipment used to play North America's oldest sport, anejodi, which was revitalized during World War 2 at Brown University by collegiate Hall of Fame football and basketball coach Charles "Rip" Engle (March 26, 1906 – March 7, 1983), to keep service men and women, students and athletes fit. Angleball equipment is played for conditioning in the NFL, LFL and by active groups worldwide - even inspiring a game-type in the world's best selling video game, Call of Duty, called Uplink. Angleball equipment is manufactured in the USA by American & International Angleball which also organizes Angleball competition events as part of the American Angleball League and Championship. International Angleball is in infancy and can be contacted through American and International Angleball for membership inquires and general questions - 8 countries are currently members. Angleball is played by 500,000+ people in the United States as estimated by the group sizes of verifiable Angleball set users.

Two large target-balls are placed on standards at opposite sides of a field The objective of Angleball is to knock down the opposing team's target-ball using the Angleball. The Angleball can be run or passed. A goal is worth one point. Angleball can be played with varying levels of contact: no-contact, touch-contact, and full-contact; this is similar to flag, touch and tackle football. The means of stopping the offense depends on the level of contact that the group has decided on: in non-contact Angleball, the ball-carrier is only allowed 3 steps with the ball; in touch Angleball the ball-carrier must pass within 3 seconds of being tagged; in full-contact Angleball it is a turnover if the ball-carrier is taken down. It is also often played that a pass cannot touch the ground, and that a circle key surrounds each standard that the offense cannot step inside; club variations are welcome within the angleball community. Complete competition rules can be found on the Angleball association website [2]. Angleball can be played with as few as 1 v 1 all the way up to 100 v 100 with a standard at both ends of a park or camp - it has been done.

The Angleball Championship is full contact. In 2017 it will be mixed gender, requiring 3 male and 3 female fielded players at all times; contact can only be made with the same gender - arguably the first full-contact, mixed gender athletic competition in history.

The first high school game played was in the late 1960s at Pioneer Ranch in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, when the Corry High School Beavers football team hosted the Titusville Rockets team. Corry's athletic director and head football coach, Lou Hanna, and Titusville's athletic director, Roy Van Horn, had been teammates on the 1939 Slippery Rock State Teachers College undefeated championship football team. The game was won by Corry.


...
Wikipedia

...