College football
Overview
 
College football refers to American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies
United States military academies
The United States Service academies, also known as the United States Military Academies, are federal academies for the undergraduate education and training of commissioned officers for the United States armed forces.There are five U.S...

, or Canadian football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

 played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in Canada and the United States.
Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as "football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

", played at public schools
Public School (UK)
A public school, in common British usage, is a school that is neither administered nor financed by the state or from taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of endowments, tuition fees and charitable contributions, usually existing as a non profit-making charitable trust...

 in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in the mid-19th century.
Quotations

My mom said "you are either going to be in jail, or be killed". So I decided to do something different because I didn't want to be in one of those postions, so I kind of focused on football and took off from there.

Vince Young|Vince Young, (University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas at Austin) quarterback; on the "negative things" that were going on when he was growing up

"Iowa and Minnesota play for a pig, a statuette rendition of the actual brother of a porcine star of a Will Rogers movie. I would like to remind you that this is, on balance, a marvelous nation. "

Chuck Culpepper|Chuck Culpepper

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."

Archie Griffin|Archie Griffin two-time Heisman Trophy|Heisman winner

"We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time."

Vince Lombardi|Vince Lombardi

"I’m like a lot of coaches. I have a lot of corny saying, but one of them is ‘there are two types of class, there’s first class and there’s no class.’"

Dan Hawkins (coach)|Dan Hawkins

"I was tremendously honored to make the All-American team but I don't feel that I have to strain to live up to some mythical something. Yesterday's sports hero is a lot like yesterday's newspaper--you always know there's a fresh one coming tomorrow."

Bill Dudley|Bill Dudley

"Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones."

Darrell Royal|Darrell Royal

"When people used to see Wake Forest on the schedule, they used a pen to mark down a

W.' We're at the point now where we at least make them use a pencil."

"In the next four years, I'll give you at least one national championship."

Ryan Miller, 5-star recruit speaking to University of Colorado at Boulder|Colorado fans through a reporter about the next four seasons for the Colorado Buffaloes football|Colorado Buffaloes football.

 
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