This attention often generates greater interest in on-the-field activities, and hence generates sponsorship opportunities – the value of which is driven by television exposure.

In 1897, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 20 on-the-field players each, with no " reserves " ( although any of the 20 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match ).

In 1898, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 20 on-the-field players each, with no " reserves " ( although any of the 20 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match ).

In 1899, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no " reserves " ( although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match ).

Winterbottom is the only England manager to have had no prior managerial experience in professional football.

His football experience led to his first sizable film role, in the 1931 The Spirit of Notre Dame.

( Despite the heavy use of sex appeal, the league does play legitimate football, and most of the league's players have previous athletic experience ; former NFL players have coached LFL teams.

A career in business held no appeal ; during a weekend vacation with a fellow Princeton graduate Baker revealed that he felt his life was over, and he would never again experience the thrills of football or hockey.

The Minneapolis Marines are especially known for their lack of prior football experience and their outstanding ability to still remain one of the best " independent " teams in the upper midwest regions.

Bourbon Bondurant, an insurance agent with prior pro football experience with the Fort Wayne Friars ; Joe Windbiel, a local high school coach who played professionally with the Detroit Heralds ; architect Earl Warweg, who had played semi-pro football for five years in Indianapolis ; cigar company traffic manager Clarence Specht ; and June Talley, an insurance adjuster also with college football experience, soon joined the team.

Owner Jim Speros ' approach was simple: he knew that Canadian football was different from the American game, and therefore made a point of hiring personnel and players with CFL experience.

This was described as a " surprise appointment ", since she has no recorded interest in football ( despite her interest in cricket ) or any experience in similar work such as the 2012 Olympics bid.

* Paper Lion ( about his experience playing professional football with the Detroit Lions, 1966 )

At the Welsh Rugby Union ( WRU ) annual general meeting that year, the outgoing WRU President D. Ewart Davies declared that " it was evident from the experience of the South African Tour that a much more positive attitude to the game was required in Wales ... Players must be prepared to learn, and indeed re-learn, to the absolute point of mastery, the basic principles of Rugby Union football.

With no experience of professional football, he again had problems with the politics of the situation, and was widely believed to have had a difficult relationship with the club's then-manager Harry Redknapp.

To be truly interactive, the viewer must be able to alter the viewing experience ( e. g. choose which angle to watch a football match ), or return information to the broadcaster.

Until the end of 2006 – 07 season the manager was John Reed, who had extensive experience as a manager in English non-league football, including three successful seasons as manager of.

He also wanted to incorporate elements of the college football experience into the pro game.

Recalling his thoughts before the game, Keane said: " Although I was putting a brave face on it, this was just about the worst experience I'd had in football.

Not unlike the successful side of 1981, there were few veterans, and the team mostly consisted of young players with little or no experience of football away from Queen's Park.

During the Second World War, Busby served as a football coach in the Army Physical Training Corps, and the experience resulted in Liverpool offering him the job of assistant to their then-manager George Kay.

However, the experience also forged Busby's opinions about how football should be played and governed, and when it became clear that they differed from those of the Liverpool board, their chairman Billy McConnell allowed Busby to pursue alternate employment.

Trautmann's only experience of international football came in 1960, when the Football League decided to include non-English players to represent the Football League in representative matches for the first time.

On 13 August 2012, Given announced on Twitter his retirement from international football, describing it as an unforgettable experience to play for his country.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

Although he never gets to play while the clock is running, he gets a big kick -- several every Saturday, in fact -- out of football.

Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

Even if the atom were big enough to hold a football field, this nucleus is still only about the size of a pinhead.

From his birch-paneled office in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, under the university's football stadium in Minneapolis ( `` We get a rumble on every touchdown '' ), blocky, grey-haired Dr. Keys directs an ambitious, $200,000-a-year experiment on diet, which spans three continents and seven nations and is still growing.

Asociación Alumni, usually just Alumni, is a rugby union and former football club located in Tortuguitas, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Perhaps the easiest way to envisage an acre is as a rectangle measuring 88 yards by 55 yards ( of 880 yards by of 880 yards ), about the size of a standard American football field.

To be more exact, one acre is 90. 75 percent of a long by wide American football field ( without the end zones ).

The acre is also approximately 56. 68 percent of a long by wide association football ( soccer ) pitch.

* AS Poissy in French: Amicale Sportive de Poissy, is a French football club based in Poissy ( Yvelines )

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ( Eredivisie ), the others being PSV and Feyenoord.

AZ (), an initialism for Alkmaar Zaanstreek, is an association football club from the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands.

Associazione Sportiva Roma (, ), commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome.

The ANZAC Day clash is one example of how the war continues to be remembered in the football community.

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

Australian rules football is popular among indigenous communities.

Australian football is a sport rich in tradition and Australian cultural references, especially surrounding the rituals of gameday for players, officials and supporters.

Australian football is played in more than 30 countries around the world.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

Alameda is home to the official offices and training facility of the Oakland Raiders American football team, which is located on Bay Farm Island.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.