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• In American football, the number of players who, by rule, must be lined up at the line of scrimmage
on offense (otherwise the team commits the penalty of illegal formation).
• In scoring baseball, seven represents the left fielder's position.
• In baseball, the 7th Inning stretch attributed to the 27th US President, William Howard Taft.
• Retired jersey number of Hall of Fame baseball player Mickey Mantle
• Retired jersey number of Hall of Fame hockey player Phil Esposito
• Retired jersey number of Hall of Fame football player John Elway
• In high-school baseball a regulation game lasts seven innings.
• In the NHL, MLB, and NBA, the maximum number of games played in a playoff series.
• Rugby Sevens, a variant of rugby union and rugby league that contains only seven players per side
instead of the standard 15 (union) or 13 (league).
• The Rugby World Cup Sevens, the World Cup for the union version of Sevens.
• The IRB Sevens World Series, also in the union version of Sevens.
• In association football the forward or winger tradiationally wears the number 7.
Diverse:
• International maritime signal flag for 7
• The seven days of the week
• The Kulin people of Australia living near the Dandenong Ranges traditionally
have seven seasons. Some of the Native Americans of Montana also have seven
seasons: chinook season, muddy spring, green summer, gold summer (or dry summer), 'Indian'
Summer, late fall, and cold winter.
• The United States declared Independence in the 7th month of 1776.
• Lotto Super 7, a Canadian-lottery game that will have its final drawing September 18, 2009
• The traditional number of Wonders of the Ancient World. There were seven, though only the Great
Pyramid of Egypt still stands today.
• The figurative number of seas.
• The number of chakras.
• The number of basic principles of the bushido.
• The Heptarchy, from the (Greek for seven realm, is the name applied by historians to the period (500-
850 CE) in English history after the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England, derived from the seven
kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex, which eventually
merged to become the Kingdom of England during the early 10th century.
• September was the seventh month in the ancient Roman calendar, as its name indicates. After the
reform that led to the current order, the seventh month is July.
• Septidi was the seventh day of the decade in the French Revolutionary Calendar.
• The traditional count of Basque provinces as expressed in the slogan Zazpiak Bat.
• Cibola was one of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold the Spanish thought existed.
• Septuplets are seven offspring resulting from the same pregnancy.
• The British fifty pence coin has 7 sides
• Sevens, a card game.
• The Seven Virgins mountain range in Sri Lanka, which was the scene of an air disaster on December
4, 1974, involving a DC-8 Series 55F passenger jetliner operated by the charter company Martinair,
which left 191 dead.
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