Girl Footballer, 9, Leaves Boys in Dust

November 12, 2012 from ESPN

Sam Gordon has an impressive record as a 9-year-old Utah football player: 35 touchdowns, 1,911 rushing yards, 65 tackles. What's even more impressive is that Sam is short for Samantha, and she plays on an all-boys team in the greater Salt Lake City area. Watch how "Sweet Feet" does it.

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American football, known in the United States as football, is a team sport. It is played by two teams, eleven players to a side, who advance an oval ball over a rectangular field that is 120 yards long by 53.3 yards wide and has goalposts at both ends. The team in possession o... Explore this topic

Salt Lake City metropolitan area

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Utah is a state in the United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the Union on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest, the 34th-most populous, and the 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,817,222 people live along the ... Explore this topic

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