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By: Nick Shin

Nick Shin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:53:22 +0000

Thanks, we try to keep the blog interesting, relevant, and helpful.

I've learned more about the history of soccer/football than I ever had. You can also call American Football, gridiron football, if you wish. Great info though, saved me from having to Google the history.

Nick

By: Thom

Thom — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:13:25 +0000

Nice post. However, I think as pertinent a question is “Why do the North Americans call their sport ‘Football’?”, given that feet appear to have a lot less to do with the action than the hands.

I believe that the forefather of American Football was Rugby Football, a catch-all term used to describe the various games played by privileged boys in English public schools in the nineteenth century. The rules of these sports varied from school to school but when they were finally codified by the ex-pupils, one took most of its laws from Rugby School (in Warwickshire) and was called ‘Rugby Football’ and the other, a variant which was focussed more on footwork, became ‘Association Football.’

This explains why the word ‘football’ is prevalent in American Football. The game in its looser form travelled across the pond and was codified again, but this time into the game that the United States knows today.

On another topic, the English also invented baseball, but that’s for another post altogether...

By: Nick Shin

Nick Shin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:53:22 +0000

By: Thom

Thom — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:13:25 +0000

Nice blog. However, I think as pertinent a question is “Why do the North Americans call their sport ‘Football’?”, given that feet appear to have a lot less to do with the action than the hands.

I believe that the forefather of American Football was Rugby Football, a catch-all term used to describe the various games played by privileged boys in English public schools in the nineteenth century. The rules of these sports varied from school to school but when they were finally codified by the ex-pupils, one took most of its laws from Rugby School (in Warwickshire) and was called ‘Rugby Football’ and the other, a variant which was focussed more on footwork, became ‘Association Football.’

This explains why the word ‘football’ is prevalent in American Football. The game in its looser form travelled across the pond and was codified again, but this time into the game that the United States knows today.

On another topic, the English also invented baseball, but that’s for another blog altogether...

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