Editing Scoreboard (section)

===North American football===
[[Image:SSHS Football Scoreboard.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A scoreboard for American [[high school football]], which also features tenths timing for [[track and field]] events]]
In both the [[American football|United States]] and [[Canadian football]] codes, the minimum details displayed are the time and score of both teams.  A typical [[high school]]  scoreboard will additionally display the [[down (football)|down]], the yardage of the [[line of scrimmage]], the yards to go until a [[first down]], the team with the possession (usually signified with the outline of a [[football (ball)|football]] in lights next to the possessing team's score) and the quarter.  Higher levels will also include [[play clock]]s and the number of [[Time-out (sport)|time out]]s left for each team. [[American football]] scoreboards may include a [[Horn loudspeaker|horn]] to signal the end of a quarter, but they are not used in larger venues. In those cases, the referee or [[public address]] announcer denotes the termination of a quarter vocally via the PA system; formerly quarter ends were denoted with the firing of a [[starting pistol]] in the era before digital timing.