1.   At school, Charley is wheeling back from playing flag football in physical education class.

2.   Donoho was able to coach his youngest son, Scott, in flag football plus spend more time with his middle son, Jeff, and his academic pursuits.

3.   Flag football is acceptable for the fair sex, and so is rugby, but tackle football?

4.   Flag football, mostly.

5.   Gradually, flag football has all but died out.

6.   He has been working out with Ohio State strength and conditioning coach Dave Kennedy and playing flag football on Sundays with his brother.

7.   He now coaches his younger brother in flag football.

8.   He ran track and developed a love for football watching games on TV and playing flag football in sixth grade.

9.   He started out as a little bitty guy playing flag football in San Antonio.

10.   Korpacz said she thinks contact football is a natural progression for women who play flag football, the club sport in which tearing off a flag substitutes for tackling.