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2. History of American football - Wikipedia

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   The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...

3. American football - Wikipedia

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   Invitational sport at 2005, 2017, and 2022 (flag football) Games. American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, [nb 1] is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval ...

4. Early history of American football - Wikipedia

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   Other codes of football share a common history with American football. Canadian football is a form of the game that evolved parallel to American football, through its adoption of the Burnside rules in 1903. While both games share a common history and basic structure, there are some important differences between the two. [237]

5. Modern history of American football - Wikipedia

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   The modern history of American football can be considered to have begun after the 1932 NFL Playoff Game, which was the first American football game to feature hash marks, the legalization of the forward pass anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, and the movement of the goal posts back to the goal line; it was also the first indoor game since ...

6. 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Football - AOL

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   First U.S. Pro Game. The Pro Football Hall of Fame notes that Nov. 12, 1892 is a key date in the history of pro football. It turns out that when the Allegheny Athletic Association football team ...

7. History of the National Football League - Wikipedia

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   The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922. The NFL was the first professional football league to ...

8. Football - Wikipedia

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   The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved ...

9. History of sports in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The history of sports in the United States reveals that American football, baseball, softball, and indoor soccer evolved from older British sports— rugby football, British baseball, rounders, and association football, respectively. Over time, these sports diverged significantly from their European origins, developing into distinctly American ...