Rule changes are certain to produce confusion in early-season games as players, coaches, officials and parents adjust.

Flag football is a non-contact variation of American football in which players remove ‘flags’ attached to the ball carrier ...

Flag football is the 18th sport NFHS has provided a set of rules, and the first since lacrosse (boys in 2000, girls in 2016) to be added. “The NFHS looks forward to being involved with the ...

Quarterback Makena Cook, who was injured during girls' soccer season, will be back for Lancers' flag football team and will have to navigate a rule change.

The rules are going to closely follow those of high school football, in which there will be four 12-minute quarters and touchdowns counting for six points. What differs now is when teams decide to ...

According to the national governing body for high school sports, girls flag football has more than doubled in participants since from 2022-23 (20,875) to 2023-24 (42,955), an increase of 105 percent.

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Jun. 18—INDIANAPOLIS, In. — The first rules publication for high school flag football — the nation's fastest-growing emerging sport — is now available for purchase from the NFHS. The 2025 ...

Girls flag football games each run 40 minutes (two 20-minute halves) and are played with five players on offense and defense. The field is 50 yards in length. By comparison, boys high school ...