Indiana Girls Tackle Football, a four-team league about 20 miles southwest of Indianapolis, is part of a small but striking trend of girls muscling onto the field. Alexis Ervin shows us around.

I did not grow up in a football family. I attended an all-girls high school ... We let our boys play tackle. … And they just love to play." Even though I'm from Queens (and read), my boys ...

started playing tackle football at 6 years old ... In September, the PIAA approved girls’ flag football as a state-sanctioned sport beginning in the 2025-26 school year. Some local girls ...

I always told my son I'd never let him play tackle football. The idea of him getting hurt scares me. But at a birthday party recently, I saw how much he loves it — and how good he is. For now, we're ...

with some parents shouting "don't let a girl tackle you" as well. She said she had asked to play football in school but had met some opposition. 12-year-old girl banned from playing football Is ...

"It's a game that has a lot of movement and you can play with girls," he says. Your ideas to tackle inequality in ... by traditional sports such as football, tennis, cricket and basketball.

This, the third release in a series, focuses on general attitudes about youth playing football. Fifty-three percent of adults surveyed feel that tackle football is not a safe activity for kids before ...