Flag Football Tournament (Duke School of Medicine)
Sat, Sep 19
|Rock Quarry Park
Come join us for a fun morning of flag football! Make a team or just come solo and get ready to play! Form a team of up to 7 people, or register as a solo player; we'll add you to a team!!
Time & Location
Sep 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Rock Quarry Park, 701 Stadium Dr, Durham, NC 27704, USA
Guests
About the Event
WHAT ARE THE RULES OF FLAG FOOTBALL?
The first rule of flag football is pretty straight forward: there’s no contact allowed. That includes tackling, diving, blocking, and screening. Instead, players wear flags that hang along their sides by a belt. To “tackle” the person in possession of the ball, the opposing team needs to pull one or both of their flags off.
Here’s a list of basic flag football rules:
All passes must be forward and received beyond the line of scrimmage.
Direct handoffs as well as unlimited backward pitches and passes are allowed behind the line of scrimmage. No backwards passes or direct handoffs are allowed past the line of scrimmage.
The quarterback has 7 seconds, from receiving the snap, to release the ball. Once a backwards handoff, pass or lateral occurs, the 7 second rule goes away and the offense has an unlimited amount of time to throw a…