As summer turns to fall, roughly 1.2 million U.S. teens are suiting up to play high school football. But something is shifting in this annual autumn rite. Tens of thousands of those young athletes are ...

For most high school girls, the prospect of playing football has always seemed out of reach. While Title IX guarantees girls the right to try out for tackle football when no girls team exists, the ...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Football players were running, throwing, catching, blocking and tackling — with a steady stream of trash talk between whistles — as the sun set on a recent night in the Motor City.

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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Highmark Stadium is usually reserved for men playing football, but not this weekend. Middle school girls from across Western New York had the opportunity to compete in a football ...