When was the game of football invented?
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Football, as a genre, has been around for hundreds of years.  The current version of the game played in America was first played in the 1870's
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The roots of the sport are from rugby and soccer (european football).  The form of the game played in the 1870's was a contact sport played with mostly soccer rules.
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So this website gives a good overview \n\nhttp://www.all-soccer-info.com/\n\nBy and large football (or soccer as it is known in the USA) originated in its current form through a series of rules and standards in England in the 1800's. \n\nThe formal competitions created in England quickly spread throughout most of the world, with the same rules being adopted across the globe.
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The games of american football, soccer, and rugby all originated from the same basic game but with different rules.  We have to thank the students of the 1880s for the word "soccer". It was the practice amonst the well bred students of Oxford to abbreviate words whilst adding "er" to the end; "brekkers" for breakfast for example. They would be asked if they wanted to play "rugger" ("rugby rules") a student replied "no, soccer", an abbreviation of "association", or the "association rules", also known as the rules of the Football Association in London. As'soc'iation (doesn't really fit with our pronunciation of the word exactly but i see how it makes sense).  Footer was also used and for whatever reason the evovled term "football" became more popular in the UK while the term "soccer" popularized in the US although it was used in the UK for a brief period of time.
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American football originated from soccer.Soccer is more universally known as "football"  because soccer players use their feet. Players decided to change the game with restrictions like the no-use of hands rule ....some players, who didn't like that, created rugby. The USA created its own version of the game under the original name "football" with more of a rugby style than soccer.Thanks for asking !
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This may help you:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29#The_Laws_of_the_Game
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Many forms of the game have been played for centuries.  The Romans Aztecs and in medevial britian for instance.  The modern version we know is a derivitive of a game made famous at Eton school.  It is called football but has a wall and very loose rules involved.  The modern game was organised and generated by business and government in the mid nineteenth century in order to give the working class something to do other than get drunk and fight after various acts of parliment gave them time off work.\n\n\nPS the other explanation of rugby is wrong.  It was created by a Mr Ellis who picked up a football and ran with it during a match at Rugby School
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the first documented evidence of the game of football was in scotland in the 14th century where the king declared that "the golf and futbal be not usit and cryit dunit" which basically means that that nobody was allowed to play or talk about it in a bid to get more ppl to learn archery to help our failing army.\n\nso documentary evidence shows that the first mention of the game was in scotland but the first football association where the modern game of "soccer" originated was formed in london, england in the 19th century what they don't tell you is that it was founded by men from all over the british isles and was, in fact predominately scottish.\n\nthese are the facts as i have come to find them, take from them what u will.
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The English. They would have a game which was a free-for-all over the whole town. This was then borken down by a few private schools to two different sets of games, Football(soccer) to play with your feet and Rugby Football (rugby) to play with your hands. All the time the ball can only be passed backwards. Up intill now different folk played in different ways so a few of the schools, in order to be able to play against one another they got together and agreed some rules. The main one being that up until now the ball can only be passed backwards so in order to allow the ball to go forward they invented the offside rule for this to be alowed.
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The USA did not start playing football when the sport first gained popularity aroung the world. The reason for this was a form of rebellion against the British. When the USA was a new country it did not want to have anything the do with the British this included sports. The USA developed a new game that is now known as Football in the USA. When football gained some form popularity in the USA they had to give a new name here. Soccer. Where they got the name soccer from? That's a mystery to me.
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Rugby was around long before American Football.  In fact American Football is a spin-off from Canadian Football which is a spin off from Rugby League which is a spin off from Rugby Union which is the game that we normally call Rugby.  \n\nThe famous story is that at Rugby School in England, one fine day while they were playing football (soccer), a cheeky young gent decided to pick up the ball and run with it for a lark.  The other guys ran after him and tackled him.  They soon figured out that this was kinda fun and decided to make a new game of it.  Rugby.\n\nSome scholars doubt the veracity of the story but it is a good one.\n\nAnyway the Rugby game became popular in England and Northern France before the game was ever played in North America.  Of course as Brits came to North America, they brought their games with them too.\n\nRugby was played in both Canada and the US from very early on.  It was actually Canada that developed the North American game first.  Rugby had already subdivided into Rugby League and Rugby Union.  Rugby Union is the game that most associate with the game 'Rugby' but there is another game called Rugby League which is the missing link between Rugby and American Football.\n\nIn Rugby Union, the game continues after a tackle.  In Rugby League, the game stops after a tackle and the game is restarted by the player who was tackled heeling the ball back to a team-mate.  This is the precursor to a snap in football.\n\nThis restart feature developed into an offensive line with a snap to a quarterback.  Canadians pioneered this new game and soon Americans were playing it too but they further refined the rules.  Canadian Football also predates American Football.  (yup, its true!)\n\nThere are still a few remnants of rugby in the game of American football but they are tricky to spot.  The word 'touchdown' refers to the fact that in Rugby you not only have to cross the end zone line, you also have to physically touch the ball to the ground for the score to count.  Its ironic that in American Football, you use the word 'touchdown' but you don't actually have to touch the ball down.\n\nAlso in Rugby you are allowed to pass the ball as many times as you like but it always has to be backwards.  Thus in American football you can 'lateral' the ball as much as you like.  This is from rugby.  \n\nActually in the early days of American football forward passes were not allowed.  This was a feature added later.\n\nThe conversion after a touchdown is also from Rugby.  \n\nIts really an interesting story if you look into it...
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The CHINESE, then the GREEKS and the ROMANS (and some other civilizations all over). Then the modern Football with the ENGLISH and then THE WORLD.\n\nHistory info:\nAssociation football, soccer or simply football. The Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England.\n\nDocumented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.\n\nIt describes a practice known as tsu chu (Traditional Chinese:蹴鞠 or 蹴踘 ; Pinyin: cù jū) which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles. It was not a game as such but more of a spectacle for the amusement of the Emperor and it may have been performed as long as 3000 years ago.\n\nThe Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet.\n\nEvidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking.\n\nMany different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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Hi there...\n\nHere is the answer I found from the Word Detective site:\n\nThe use of "gridiron" as a metaphor for the football field, and, by extension, to the game itself, dates back to 1897. The original "gridirons" were just that: grids made of iron, used to cook fish or meat over an open fire. Early on in the history of football, someone in the cheap seats high in the stadium must have noticed that the parallel yardlines marking the field resembled a "gridiron," and so the metaphor was born. The first use of this sense of "gridiron" in print came in an account of the annual Harvard-Yale game carried in the Boston Herald.
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Have you ever wonder how soccer / football games get into our life? When and where is the origin of this game from? Why is it so many peoples in the world crazy about this game? Almost every culture has reference to the history of soccer.\n\n     The origin of football / soccer can be found in every corner of geography and history. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played a ball game long before our era. The Chinese played "football"  games date as far back as 3000 years ago. The Ancient Greeks and the Roman used football  games to sharpen warriors for battle. In south and Central America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished. \n\n     But it was in England that soccer / football really begin to take shape. It all started in 1863 in England, when two football association (association football and rugby football) split off on their different course. Therefore, the first Football Association was founded in England. \n\nOn October 1963, eleven London clubs and schools sent their representatives to the Freemason's Tavern. These representatives were intent on clarifying the muddle by establishing a set of fundamental rules, acceptable to all parties, to govern the matches played amongst them. This meeting marked the birth of The Football Association. The eternal dispute concerning shin-kicking, tripping and carrying the ball was discussed thoroughly at this and consecutive meetings until eventually on 8 December the die-hard exponents of the Rugby style took their final leave. They were in the minority anyway. They wanted no part in a game that forbade tripping, shin-kicking and carrying the ball. A stage had been reached where the ideals were no longer compatible. On 8 December 1863, football and rugby finally split. Their separation became totally irreconcilable six years hence when a provision was included in the football rules forbidding any handling of the ball (not only carrying it). \n\n     Only eight years after its foundation, The Football Association already had 50 member clubs. The first football competition in the world was started in the same year - the FA Cup, which preceded the League Championship by 17 years. \n\n     International matches were being staged in Great Britain before football had hardly been heard of in Europe. The first was played in 1872 and was contested by England and Scotland. This sudden boom of organized football accompanied by staggering crowds of spectators brought with it certain problems with which other countries were not confronted until much later on. Professionalism was one of them. The first moves in this direction came in 1879, when Darwin, a small Lancashire club, twice managed to draw against the supposedly invincible Old Etonians in the FA Cup, before the famous team of London amateurs finally scraped through to win at the third attempt. Two Darwin players, the Scots John Love and Fergus Suter, are reported as being the first players ever to receive remuneration for their football talent. This practice grew rapidly and the Football Association found itself obliged to legalise professionalism as early as 1885. This development predated the formation of any national association outside of Great Britain (namely, in the Netherlands and Denmark) by exactly four years. \n\nAfter the English Football Association, the next oldest are the Scottish FA (1873), the FA of Wales (1875) and the Irish FA (1880). Strictly speaking, at the time of the first international match, England had no other partner association against which to play. When Scotland played England in Glasgow on 30 November 1872, the Scottish FA did not even exist - it was not founded for another three months. The team England played that day was actually the oldest Scottish club team, Queen's Park. \n\nThe spread of football outside of England, mainly due to the British influence abroad, started slow, but it soon gathered momentum and spread rapidly to al
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Can i clarify that there is a difference between England and Britain.  And it is reported that yes the English were the first to draw up the rules and regulations of football.  In fact whilst King Henry 8th was on the throne 16th Century he had to ban football as itt was too brutal and too many people were dying of the injuries thats when the ref was introduced. x
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Brits actually invented the word. "Soccer," when it first appeared in the 1890s, was spelled "socca," which was short for "association" or "association football," meaning football played according to the rules laid down by the British Football Association. It was also called "socker" until the current form "soccer" appeared around 1895.
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Soccer is what the Americans call Football in order to differentiate it from "American Football" which is a completely different game.\n\nFootball is a British invented sport with a huge worldwide following now where two teams of eleven players try to kicj a round ball into the other teams net.\n\nAmerican Football has more in common with Rugby Football where two teams of players run with, carry and throw an egg shaped ball to each other and attempt to touch it down behind the goal or kick it over the goal.\n\nRugby football was invented at Rugby School in England when someone picked up the ball during a normal game of football and ran with it.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to have been in the middle ages when baying crowds would compete to kick the severed head of someone who had been executed around the streets.\n\nNot much has changed in europe!!