Rugby football

Football is a commonly known american sport played with a leather oval ball on a gridiron like field. Soccer is a more internationally known sport played with a round leather ball on a similar looking field. The basic element of both games is to score more points than their opponent in a given time by kicking or throwing the ball into the opponents goal or endzone. In most parts of the world, however, soccer is also known as futbol. Football is primarily played with hands and soccer is primarily…

football Football is a popular sport in North America. Known as football in the United States and Canada, it is often called gridiron or American football in different parts of the world. It evolved from rugby football, and the first game was played in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers. A lot of people in america play football if it's not professional they play it professional and for fun it is a American Football grew out of English sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular on…

States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the London Football…

Every time a football player laces up his cleats, straps on his helmet, and steps on that field, he could be making one of the biggest mistakes of his life. Brain damage caused by multiple blows to the head has never received the appropriate attention that it deserves. A recent study by researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ brain repository in Bedford, Massachusetts showed that of the brain tissue from 128 former football players examined, 101 (78.9%) of them tested positive for CTE…

The debate of which sport is better futbol or american football has been around for a long time, and there seems to be no answer to satisfy everyone no matter how big the popularity of futbol overshadows its counterpart. The best sport in the world overall is futbol not american, but the original futbol that is known through the world, and is played by the majority of the world 's population. The debates answer might be hard to swallow at first, but after a few facts the truth is undeniable…

The football that we see in the National Football League (NFL) is the same as the Canadian Football League (CFL), but with different teams and rules. In the NFL, a team has four chances to get a first down (getting the ball ten yards), but in the CFL they only get three chances. Not only is the amount of downs different, but so are the amount of players on the field. In the NFL, there are eleven players on the field, opposed to the CFL, where there are twelve! In the CFL, they can fit twelve…

Football, the sport American people know and love, wasn’t always the way it is today. Football was derived from the English sports, rugby and soccer. Walter Camp made the first set of rules for the game while attending Yale University. The first official intercollegiate game was between Princeton and Rutgers on November 6, 1869. Rutgers won that game 6-4. Football is believed to have descended from the Roman game of “Harpastum.” Harpastum translates as rugby in Latin dictionaries. Harpastum is…

college football player in the 1860’s when it was invented. You are handed the ball and you are running through the pack when you slam head first into a 300 pound defensive player. From that day on you cannot move the rest of your body because a spinal fracture in you neck. Luckily today, players are much less likely to do this because of how football gear has improved. Football gear long ago had many issues, solved, by modern equipment. The first type of football gear added into football was…

in what is generally recognized as the first college football game, the game was much more like a rugby match than a modern football game, though. The rules of football as we know it today, however, originated in the mind of Walter Chauncey Camp (1859-1925). Camp was a rugby player and coach who revised the rules of rugby to create a new game. In 1905, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, alarmed at the increasing number of injuries in football games, established a committee to make the sport…

History of Soccer Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the globe in the world of sports. Also, known as football in the rest of the world, The fist apparitions of soccer dated back about 2000 years ago, in Ancient China during the Han Dynasty. The People would dribble balls made out of leather and filled with hair feathers in a military exercise called Tsu Chu. They would kick the ball into small nettings that were fixed with bamboo canes and at the same time they had to protect…