Canadian football

noun

1. a game similar to American football but played on a field 165 yards by 65 yards (151 meters by 59 meters) by two teams of 12 players each.

Canadian football

noun

1. a game resembling American football, played on a grass pitch between two teams of 12 players

Example Sentences

Candy also became a co-owner and one-man pep squad for the Toronto Argonauts, the Canadian Football League team.

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Undrafted yet undeterred, Tino pivoted to the Canadian Football League.

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After three years in the Canadian Football League, Ebell became a Ventura County sheriff’s deputy, seemingly the epitome of a high school and college football hero giving back to his community.

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“Rhoda was my mentor, and always encouraged me. Friends for 79 years,” said Wheeler, a 1956 Olympic downhill bronze medalist who married Canadian Football League Hall of Famer Kaye Vaughan.

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Those teams were in major cities, the fast-paced, hyperviolent games were regularly televised on ESPN, and the players had a plausible shot at climbing their way into bigger leagues, like the Canadian Football League or even the NFL.

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