* 1987 – Shawn Gore, Canadian football player

* 1982 – Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player

* 1981 – Matthieu Proulx, Canadian football player

* 1982 – Ricardo Colclough, Canadian football player

* 1964 – Greg Battle, Canadian football player

* 1959 – Dave Ridgway, Canadian football player

* 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian football player ( b. 1872 )

Canadian football, on the other hand, begins in the summer, but extends its season through the autumn season and into November.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The facility is 38, 690 meters < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 416, 500 ft < sup > 2 </ sup >), equivalent to 4½ Canadian football fields, and the operating structure is the largest stainless steel building in North America, the size of 14 NHL rinks.

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

Modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians.

For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the goal line, then the ball is advanced half the distance to the goal line, though only up to the one-yard line ( unlike American football, in Canadian football no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line ).

Canadian football distinguishes three ways of kicking the ball:

A touchdown in Canadian football is often referred to as a " major score " or simply a " major.

The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.

In Canadian Interuniversity Sport football, for the Uteck Bowl, Mitchell Bowl, and Vanier Cup, the same overtime procedure is followed until there is a winner.

* Down ( American football ), in American / Canadian football, a period of time where one play takes place

Immigration into the province was eased tremendously by the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line in 1880s.

Also, the court pointed out that, while Canada has the power to amend the line of succession to the Canadian throne, the Statute of Westminster stipulates that the agreement of the governments of the fifteen other Commonwealth realms that share the Crown would first have to be sought if Canada wished to continue its relationship with these countries.

( in fact, the Earl of St. Andrews had already lost his place in the line of succession when he married the Roman Catholic Canadian Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988, but St. Andrews ' place in the line of succession was significantly lower than Phillips '.

In Canadian football ( and, until 1998, the National Football League ), the drop kick can be taken from any point on the field, unlike placekicks, which must be attempted behind the line of scrimmage.

Unlike sports like Association football and ice hockey which require the puck or ball to pass completely over the goal line to count as a score, both Canadian and American football just merely need the nose of the ball to break the vertical plane of the outer edge of the goal line.

Goal posts were placed on the goal line, and any kicks that did not result in field goals but left the field through the end lines were simply recorded as touchbacks ( or, in the Canadian game, singles ; it was during the pre-end zone era that Hugh Gall set the record for most singles in a game, with 8 ).

Each league used a different approach: Canadian football, which adopted the forward pass and the end zones in 1929 ( far later than the Americans ), merely appended 20-to 25-yard end zones to the ends of the existing 110-yard field, leaving the goal posts on the goal line and creating a much larger field of play.

The goal posts in Canadian football still reside on the goal line instead of the back of the end zones, partly because the number of field goal attempts would dramatically decrease if the posts were moved 20 yards back in that sport.

In American and Canadian football, a forward pass — usually referred to simply as a pass — consists of one offensive player throwing the football towards another downfield in the direction of the opponent's goal line.

In Canadian football the passer must simply throw the ball across the line of scrimmage — whether he is inside or outside of the " pocket "— to avoid the foul of " intentionally grounding ".

The goal line is the chalked or painted line dividing the end zone from the field of play in American football and Canadian football.

The ball begins on the ground with its long axis parallel to the sidelines of the field, its ends marking each team's line of scrimmage in American football ; in Canadian football line of scrimmage of the team without the ball is 1 yard past their side of the ball.

In American and Canadian football, the ball as it is put in play is only held in the line ( by the snapper ) for a fraction of a second.

In American and Canadian football a line of scrimmage is an imaginary transverse line ( across the width of the football field ) beyond which a team cannot cross until the next play has begun.

In Canadian football, the team on defense must line up no nearer than a yard to the line of scrimmage.

A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball, get a first down, or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away.

A snap ( colloquially called a " hike ", " snapback ", or " pass from center ") starts each American football and Canadian football play from scrimmage.

Canadian football used the rugby scrimmage unaltered until near the end of the 19th Century, when, regionally at first, under the influence of the American scrimmage, the number of players in the scrimmage was limited to three -- a " centre scrimmager " bound on either side by props called " side scrimmagers ".

In American football, a lateral pass or lateral, officially backward pass ( onside pass in Canadian football ), occurs when the ball carrier throws the football to any teammate behind him or directly next to him ( i. e. on or behind a line running through the ball and parallel to the line of scrimmage ).

* Quarterback sack, a tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage in American and Canadian football

In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs ( DBs ) are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage ; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of scrimmage.

The word " scrummage " is a modification of " scrimmage " ( the form of the word previously used in rugby and still used in American and Canadian football ), which in turn derives from or is a reflex of " skirmish ".

The modern rugby union scrummage and ruck, the rugby league play-the-ball ( also referred to as a " ruck "), and the American football snap and scrimmage ( later adopted by Canadian football ) were all derivatives of the early scrummage, and responsive in different ways to problems encountered in the way the rules regarding it were written and administered.

In American football and Canadian football, a sack occurs when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a forward pass, or when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage in the " pocket " and the intent of what he was going to do is unclear.

The Canadian game also allows players to move forward toward the line of scrimmage before the snap, which is forbidden in most versions of American football, and also features a one-point " single " ( formally called a " rouge ") for a ball kicked into the end zone and not returned by the receiving team.

In American and Canadian football, an onside kick ( sometimes onsides kick ) is a type of kick used at a kickoff or other free kick, or scrimmage kick or other kick during play, in which the ball is kicked favorably for the kicking team to avoid giving away the ball.

Shinny, a primarily Canadian term, is usually called scrimmage, pick-up hockey, drop-in hockey or RAT Hockey in the United States.

* Play from scrimmage, an organized action as part of the game, in American and Canadian football