Canadian football

Canadian football, or simply football in Canada, is a team sport in which two teams of 12 players compete on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide, trying to advance a pointed oval ball into the opposing team's end zone. It is closely related to American football and the two share origins, but Canadian football is played with three downs rather than four, has goalposts at the front of the end zone, uses twelve players a side instead of eleven, and is played on a wider and longer field with deeper end zones. The game developed from rugby football, which was first recorded in Canada in the early 1860s; the first documented match was played on 9 November 1861 at University College, University of Toronto. The Canadian Football League is the professional league and Football Canada governs the amateur game, and the CFL championship game is the Grey Cup.