American football positions
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american-football-positions-185-4948292
title:
American football positions
text:
In American football, the specific role that a player takes on the field is referred to as their "position". Under the modern rules of American football, both teams are allowed 11 players on the field at one time and have "unlimited free substitutions", meaning that they may change any number of players during any "dead ball" situation. This has resulted in the development of three task-specific "platoons" of players within any single team: the offense, the defense, and "special teams". Within t
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Specific roles that players take in American football
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football_positions
date created:
2006-01-29T01:02:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:50:46Z
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