Where does the word quarterback, safety, tight end, etc., in football come from?
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Link below has history and references - apparently US football adapted British Rugby rules - which accounts for some of the names:\n\nthe term quarterback has its origin in Scottish rugby, wherein backfield players, according to their customary distance behind the forwards, were designated "quarter back" (i.e. 1/4 of the way back), "half back", and "full back". Eventually in rugby the English-Irish nomenclature prevailed, with halfback, three-quarters back, and fullback; in some places the term "five-eighths back" is used as well.
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Look up American football on wikipedia.  That should help you.  Also check out "Football for Dummies" by former Raiders player Howie Long and "The Idiot's Guide to Football" by former Redskins QB Joe Theismann.
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A linebacker is a defensive position in football. There are three basic types of positions on defense: defensive line, linebackers, and secondary. The guys on the defensive line are usually very large (around the middle), Their job is to plug up the holes on the line to prevent any runs up the middle. They also want to try and penetrate into the backfield to stop the play for a loss. A quick defensive lineman is great, but they are generally the largest and slowest group of the three.\n\nThe secondary is your safeties and cornerbacks. Their job is to cover the recievers, and they are usually the last hope if the offensive makes a big play. They are built more for speed and are smallest of the three.\n\nA linebacker is really the heart of the defense. They fall in the middle of the other two. The are smaller than the lineman, but larger than the secondary, and fall in between the two as far as speed. Their job is to stop a running back coming at them at full speed, and to cover the short pass. And now a days, with the QB's that like to take off running (Michael Vick for example), it adds a new dimension to their game.\n\nIf someone says you should be a linebacker, I would consider that a compliment.
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For a safety it depends where their knee or elbow touches the ground. It doesn't matter where the ball is,all that matters is where they touched down first.It's like a tackle on the field the ball is spotted where the player's knee or elbow touches down. Only when scoring a touchdown and getting the first down line is where the ball matters to see if crosses a plane. On a safety the ball rule is not added. So the ball can be outside the plane but  if the player's knee is in the endzone it's a safety.
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American Football!\n\nWalter Camp contibuted the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football:\n\n    * one side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations\n    * the line of scrimmage\n    * 11 on a team instead of 15\n    * created the quarter-back and center positions\n    * forward pass\n    * standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring\n    * created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone\n    * tackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888\n    * a touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912
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Just curious as to why this question is being asked in the "football" category.
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I AM A FRIGGIN FOOTBALL GOD BOW TO ME. (LOL) seriously thoughj a tight end has to run fast and be able to be nimble on their feet. They have to be able to cover their man.
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Well........its very simple really.\n\nYou purport to speak a language called "English". \n\nYet you take this beautiful language of Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth and mangle it by changing the meanings of words (bum, trunk, football, fag), spelling it incorrectly (color, etc) and then trying to tell us that WE are spelling it incorrectly whenever I use the spellcheck on my laptop !\n\n...................and you have the cheek to call the winners of the Superbowl the "World Football Champions" when no team from outside the USA is allowed to enter the competition.\n\nStrangely, all the associations (the English FA, FIFA, etc) call it "football" rather than "soccer", so why the hell do you lot have to be different ?
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football players only have 4 tries to get the ball past a certain yard marking. each of these 4 tries is called a down. if they don't make it to the mark on the first try, then they have a 2nd down (they might call it "2nd and 10", meaning it's the 2nd down and they have 10 yards to go before they reach the next mark). if they don't make it on the 2nd down, then they go to a 3rd down, etc. if it gets to a 4th down and they still don't make it to the mark, then the ball goes to the other team's possession.
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That is a Quarterback hand-warmer. It is made of fleece and has a layer of high-loft insulation. This equipment is used by several QBs, especially those who play in cold climates. Besides see ing them on Brady, Roethlisberger, Favre, and others, you'll also see them on receivers in cold weather.\n\nYou can find one here: http://www.duluthtrading.com/search/searchresults/75086.aspx?feature=Product_1
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If the corners, and/or safety backs off right away in high school, it's usually zone coverage.  Also, a good way to tell is if there is motion, and the corner follows the receiver, then it is man.  If you're just trying out for the team, (as a freshman or sophomore, I'm guessing) then reading coverage isn't going to be the first thing the coaches look for, because it is a learned skill.  They are going to be looking at your fundamentals, like your drop, and your throwing ability.  Hone those skills first, and the rest they will teach you.
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To play the game of football (American), strength is a key factor, as many different facets of the game are based on trying to control the movements of other players -- be it through blocking, running or tackling. And while technique and leverage are key aspects of this, they can only compensate for so much if one player is significantly stronger than the other. So yes, to be successful, I would say strength is a key factor in the game.\nThe one exception to this might be the role of kicker or punter, but each of those also need strong legs, which would again go back to the need for strong muscles.\nHope this helps.
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An All-America team is a sports team composed of star players. It is usually used in U.S. team sports to refer to players that are selected by members of the national media. The term is used primarily with regard to college and occasionally (and more controversially) high school players; professional players are usually referred to as all-stars, or, in the case of professional football, "All-Pros", who are usually selected by the fans to compete in Pro Bowls. Selection to such a team is primarily of an honorary nature; All-America teams, unlike some other all-star teams, are generally not assembled for the purpose of playing games as a unit. The original usage seems to have been to a list of players regarded as the best of that year at their respective positions in college football selected by football pioneer Walter Camp in the 1890s; the College Football All-America Team is still selected annually by his successors and continues to be one of the most prestigious.
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Could it be because Americans are clueless? American football is a game where the ball is predominantly thrown or carried the ball gets kicked far less then it is thrown or carried.In the rest of the world Football is called football because a ball is predominantly kicked.
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The word "soccer" is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at public schools; most people knew the game simply as football.\n\nFootball is more commonly known as soccer in certain English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic forms of the game, soccer became more widely used.\n\nFootball, in its modern form, was exported by Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the (Spanish fútbol, Portuguese: futebol, and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. \n\nIn Germanic languages (other than English), the term is usually translated (for example, German: Fußball, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. \n\nIn Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick.\n\nAnd Kick-Off, Field Goal and Punt are all terms to describe American Football whereby a player uses his foot to make the ball go in a certain direction.  So, American Football is played with the feet but it is played with the feet about as much as world football/futbol is played with the hands via the goal keeper or other players on a throw-in.  My question would be why is it termed football (in the rest of the world) when the goalie can use his hands all the time (provided he is in the 18 yard box) and other players use their hands to make a throw in?  It is a mixture of both hands and feet as well as your head, chest, thigh etc.  In my opinion soccer/football should be called "body ball" taking in the total amount of your body that actually touches the ball, unlike rugby and american football...just a thought.
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That way we can say that it's more complicated and that we are origional, when in all actuality, it's nearly the same game, if not easier. In cases such as Football, it's just so that we don't have to keep moving in between plays. It's the lazy way out.
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Man, You actually asked several questions. Speed, agility, and, athleticism has something to do with mostly black NFL Running Backs, and, Wide Recievers, and defensive backs. All of the positions rely on mobility......speed, quickness, and, athleticism. Name your top 10 rb's, your top 10 wr's, your top 10 cb's, or, even your top 10 players period, past or present. The overwhelming majority are most likely black. Look at the stat leaders, again, past or present---matters not, unless, you are looking at the QB position. In the case of QB, society dictated the thought that a black person lacked the intelligence to be a leader, but, if you really examine the numbers, you'll see that guys like Randall Cunningham and Warren Moon were just as good, if not better than whomever they  opposed when they played. The quarterback issue has been a slow changing process, much like the coaching issue in the NFL. I have seen a few black punters/ kickers, in the league. The most natoable being  Reggie Roby. He was a full-time punter. Reggie Roby, was a longtime punter for the Miami Dolphins, when they were worth watching.