Wikipedia:WikiProject American football
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Welcome to the American football WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of American football.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
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[edit] Goals
- Create a structure and organization for articles dealing with American football strategy, including:
- plays
- formations
- schemes
- philosophies
- positions
- other general strategy points
- Clean-up, merge, wikify, create images for, expand, merge and otherwise improve the individual articles dealing with the subjects above
- Creating decent graphics to include with all articles. Both originally drawn graphics and public-domain photos in every article would be helpful.
- This goal has been started. Check out Formation (American football) for examples. Make comments on the talk page.
- minor goals including:
- creating user boxes for project members
- creating a stub template
- getting more editors involved in the project
- submitting project for review process
[edit] Scope
- This project should deal primarily with strategic aspects of football; articles on specifc leagues, players, teams, and games should be the scope of other projects, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League and Wikipedia:WikiProject College football
[edit] Guidelines
Guidelines for style, format and organization of the articles to be included in this project have yet to be decided. Please see the talk page to join the discussion on this. Once a general consensus is reached there, those guidelines should be moved here.
[edit] Open tasks
- The primary task now is to decide the direction for this project, and establish a set of guidelines as to WHAT this project will work on and HOW we will format articles, categories, etc. This discussion is happening on the talk page. Once a consensus is reached there, a to-do list can be developed.
- Diagrams (in .PNG format) are currently being uploaded for formations, plays, and positions. Check out: Formation (American football) for examples. Please make comments on the talk page.
[edit] Members
Please, feel free to join by clicking edit on the right, and signing your name at the bottom of the list with an asterisk and three tildes *~~~
- Jayron32 -- founded the project, will help where I can.
- Jcam -- seeing the need for help on many "generic" American football articles(those which may be applicable to pro, college, high school and/or other levels of football, I gladly join this project.
- IAMTHEEGGMAN -- Ill help
- Giantsrule -- Hey, I can try to help, I am already making good stubs of all players in the league, I have started with the San Francisco 49ers
- Daniel11 -- started the page on American football strategy a while ago, was hoping to see a project like this arrive.
- Megamanic -- I'll do what I can, when I can
- Teh tennisman--Why not; I know some about NFL.
[edit] Articles
A cursory glance at the American football category and subcategories reveals the following articles are probably within the scope of this project. Feel free to create, remove, move, merge, improve, or do anything else to these or any other articles you feel will fit the scope of the project. Please make any notes on the talk page of this project AND of the pages in question when dealing with these articles.
- American football
- Ace formation
- American football defensive schemes
- American football plays
- American football positions
- American football rules
- American football strategy
- Arena football
- Clock management
- College football
- Comparison of American football and rugby league
- Comparison of American football and rugby union
- Comparison of Canadian and American football
- Defensive coordinator
- Defensive team
- Dimeback
- Eight-man football
- Eight-man football defensive formations
- Flexbone formation
- Formation (American football)
- Gridiron football
- History of American football
- Indoor football
- Instant replay
- Issues in American football
- Long Bomb
- Nickelback (position)
- Nine-man football
- Offensive coordinator
- Offensive philosophy (American football)
- Offensive team
- Official (American football)
- Recruiting (athletics)
- Shoulder pads
- Six-man football
- Special teams
- Swinging Gate (American football)
- Touch football (American)
- Touchdown dance
- Blitz (American football)
- Blocking (American football)
- Bootleg play
- Checkdown
- Counter run
- Counter trey
- Curl (route)
- Cutback (football move)
- Down and Out
- Drag (route)
- Draw play
- Drop kick
- End-around
- Flea flicker (American football)
- Fly (American Football)
- Forward pass
- Fumblerooski
- Hail Mary pass
- Halfback option play
- Hitch (route)
- Hook and lateral play (American football)
- Horse-collar tackle
- Kickoff (American football)
- Lateral pass
- Off Tackle
- Onside kick
- Out (route)
- Play action pass
- The Play
- Plunge/Dive
- Post (route)
- Punt (football)
- Quarterback sneak
- Reverse (American football)
- Rush (American football)
- Screen pass
- Slant (route)
- Squib kick
- Statue of Liberty play
- Sweep (American football)
- Swinging Gate (American football)
- Tackle-eligible play
- Touchback
- Trick play
- Zone blitz
- Zone run
- Center (American football)
- Cornerback
- Defensive back
- Defensive end
- Defensive lineman
- Defensive tackle
- Dimeback
- End (football)
- Fullback
- Guard (American football)
- Gunner (American football)
- H-back
- Holder (American football)
- Kick returner
- Linebacker
- Lineman
- Long snapper
- Middle guard
- Nickelback (position)
- Nose tackle
- Offensive tackle
- Placekicker
- Punt returner
- Punter (football position)
- Quarterback
- Running back
- Tackle (American football position)
- Tailback
- Tight end
- 12th Man (football)
- 46 defense
- Bump and run coverage
- Chain crew
- Coffin corner
- Dead ball (American football)
- Defensive team
- Double coverage
- Down (football)
- Eligible receiver
- Extra point
- Fair catch
- Fair catch kick
- False start
- Field goal
- Fumble
- Garbage time
- Goal (sport)
- Goal line
- Hurry-up offense
- I formation
- Incomplete pass
- Interception (football)
- Line of scrimmage
- Linebacker
- Neutral zone (American football)
- Off Tackle
- Offensive team
- Option offense
- Pass interference
- Passer rating
- Play clock
- Play from scrimmage
- Punt return
- Quarterback kneel
- Quarterback sack
- Receiver (football)
- Run & Shoot
- Running out the clock
- Running up the score
- Safety (football)
- Scout team
- Shoot the gap
- Shotgun formation
- Similarity score
- Single set Back
- Single-wing
- Snap (football)
- Snap count
- Stunt (football)
- T formation
- Tackle (football move)
- Tampa 2
- Three-and-out
- Tie (draw)
- Touchdown
- Tuck rule
- Two-minute warning
- Two-point conversion
- Walk-on
- West Coast offense
- Wishbone formation
[edit] Featured content
[edit] Candidates
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list your new American football-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.
[edit] Collaboration and review
[edit] Templates
- {{User WP American football}} This is the Userbox Template for members of this project. Feel free to add it to your User Page.
- {{American football}} This is the page template for articles that we are working on. Please add it to the TALK page of any article we are working on.