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Rugby football was introduced to North America in Canada by the British Army garrison in Montreal, which played a series of games with McGill University. [1] In 1874, the United States' Harvard University hosted Canada's McGill University to play the new game derived from rugby football in a home-and-home series.
Canadian football, or simply football, is a sport in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete on a field 110 yards (101 m) long and 65 yards (59 m) wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone.
The history of Canadian sports falls into five stages of development: early recreational activities before 1840; the start of organized competition, 1840–1880; the emergence of national organizations, 1882–1914; the rapid growth of both amateur and professional sports, 1914 to 1960; and developments of the last half-century. [1]
A "running game", resembling rugby football, was taken up by the Montreal Football Club in Canada in 1868. [2] While the game between Rutgers and Brown is commonly considered the first American football game, several years prior in 1862, the Oneida Football Club formed as the oldest known football club in the United States. The team consisted ...
On October 2, 2005, the Arizona Cardinals defeated the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 31–14 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, under the name NFL Fútbol Americano. It was the first regular season NFL game held outside the United States. [7] The game drew the NFL's highest game attendance at the time with 103,467 spectators. [7] [8]
In the early years of the game, Harvard University and McGill University developed a rivalry that is credited with the establishment of modern American football. [1] [2] [3] The first game played outside the United States occurred on October 23, 1874, when the Crimson defeated McGill 3–0 at Montreal, Quebec.
The 1909 game, featuring the Ottawa Rough Riders and Hamilton Tigers of the IRFU, was sponsored by the New York Herald and played at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx; [2] this in the era when the Canadian game was more similar to rugby football and did not feature modern rules such as the forward pass like the American game.
North America is the birthplace of gridiron football, the form of football that originally developed, and is primarily played, in the U.S. and Canada. [11] Both major forms, American football and Canadian football , developed in the late 19th century out of the original games now known as rugby football and association football .