US PATENT SUBCLASS 273 / 108.4
.~.~ Football

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273 /   HD   AMUSEMENT DEVICES: GAMES

108  DF  SURFACE PROJECTILE GAME; GAME ELEMENT (E.G., TARGET, ETC.) OR ACCESSORY THEREFOR OTHER THAN PROJECTILE, PER SE) {6}
108.1  DF  .~ Simulated game (e.g., hockey, soccer, etc.) {11}
108.4.~.~ Football {1}
108.41  DF  .~.~.~> Movable surface

DEFINITION

Classification: 273/108.4

Football:

(under subclass 108.1) A surface projectile game wherein the game mimicked is a game commonly known as football, where opposing teams of participants alternately have a given number of chances to carry a projectile across a line at an end of a defined play surface, to catch a thrown projectile in the air in a defined area past the end of the elongated play surface, i.e., end zone, or kick the projectile over a horizontal bar and between a pair of vertically extending bars located in the end zone, while the opposing team attempts to take the projectile away or physically stop the team having the number of chances from reaching the end line or end zone before the given number of chances have been used.

(1) Note. Although representative of a sport that utilizes an aerial projectile, the projectile in this and indented subclasses is intended to remain in contact with the playing surface.