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| History of Football Sport |
History of Football
Football is also known as American Football which is
basically a sport played between two different teams which were competing to doing goals regularly on the goal post located on the football field using a
ball and set play for winning always. The main objective of the game is getting
the ball to the opposing team's goal line by either scoring a running touchdown
or by kicking the ball over the post and on the goal post also. It is not like
the soccer sport which has a goalkeeper in the game to protect the goalpost
instead it is more similar to Rugby and Australian Rules football.
Football sport which was
invented in England during the 1860s, It is also having very much similarities
to the game of soccer and dates back to the Middle Ages when groups of rival
villages competed to score a goal against each other to win the match and also
prove them the best from their opposite village team.
In England during
the 1860s, some schools, universities, and clubs got together to make a
specific set of rules and regulations which allows different teams from
different schools and districts to play with each other in a very much planned
and systematic manner always. These rules were also the predecessor of modern
soccer. However, some teams did not accept them and chose to make their own
code of rules and regulations on how to play the match which is the main cause
for the birth of a new sport from it which is to be known as rugby. The rules
and regulations of football date back to the English parent games.
American Football is also one of the native to North America and some old
versions of it that were being played in the early 1800s in Princeton. This
game is known as the 'Ball own' and it eventually became known as football but
the rules kept on changing with the progress of today's world also.
A similar form of the
football game was also played at the Harvard University campus which was
greatly enjoyed by the senior students of the university also. Another name for
this game is the 'Bloody Monday' as it was always played on the first Monday of
every academic year.
When the rules and
regulations of the rugby and soccer sports new prosperity brought by it also
which is completely about by the end of the civil war completely and
successfully also. Princeton and Rutgers created their own rules and
regulations for this sport and played the very first intercollegiate game
of football on the 6th November 1869. The style used in American football is
now becoming popular day by day from its older version which is also known as
the old-style rugby. Nowadays American college football now becomes one of
the leading types of football sport. The professional and the NFL football were
started in the 1950s to get complete success by a regular increase in the
number of people watching it regularly. After a few years, the NFL football
association is merged with the AFL football league for complete control over
this sport all over the world.
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