Every weekend more than 100 women converge on Goudy Field — not to watch their children play soccer or partners play rugby, but to get rough and tumble in their own game of football.
“Football? Really?” laughs Caitlin Dunahee, a 21-year-old quarterback who’s been playing in the Victoria Women’s Football league for five years.
Dunahee says that’s the most common response when she tells friends that she plays with the old pigskin. “It’s not tackle, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not aggressive.”
