Game Day

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. Team sport played with a ball and goalposts (8)
  2. 8. An enthusiastic devotee of sports (plural) (4)
  3. 10. A score in American football (9)
  4. 12. A contest with rules to determine a winner (4)
  5. 13. Performing mild exercises to prepare for some more strenuous activity (6)
  6. 16. Two or more draft animals that work together to pull something (4)

Down

  1. 1. An intermission between the first and second half of a game (8)
  2. 2. Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team (plural) (7)
  3. 3. A kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score (7)
  4. 4. The team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring (7)
  5. 5. The act of throwing the ball to another member of your team (4)
  6. 7. The person who plays that position on a football team (6)
  7. 9. One of four divisions into which some games are divided (plural) (8)
  8. 11. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while (plural) (4)
  9. 14. A kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground (4)
  10. 15. Instrumentalists not including string players (4)