Women's Team Called To War
April 3, 2003 - National Women's Football Association (NWFA) News Release
Nashville, TN-In the movie, a "League of their own", the men went off to war and the women formed leagues and played baseball to keep the sport alive. In the year 2003, the men and women went to war and the new sport of women's full contact football felt the loss.
The National Women's Football Association, which had 30 teams gearing up for the 2003 season, recently announced that one of the teams, the Junction City Cavalry, was going to wait out the season due to the fact that half of the team was deployed to fight the war against Iraq.
"As we've built the league, we tried to anticipate most every situation but a war was not one of them," states league CEO Catherine Masters.
Instead of simply canceling the games that the Cavalry was supposed to play, the league worked with some of the teams signed up for 2004 and added them to the schedule to fill out those games. The teams that stepped up to help make this possible were the Evansville Express, the Denton Stampede and the Austin Outlaws. "When we heard about the situation, we offered our help and agreed to take four of the games" states Tammy Hall, CO-owner of the Evansville Express.
For additional information on the National Women's Football Association, please visit our website at www.womensfootballcentral.com or call (615) 860-4084.
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