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Some people feel that college football should go to a playoff type post season. Only the goalkeeper is permitted to handle the ball and may do so only within the penalty area surrounding the goal. Its first president was jim thorpe, an outstanding american athlete who was also a player in the league. Football a fourdimensional game of rushing, kicking, forward passing, and backward passing has had more playing rule changes since its inception than any other sport.
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