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  2. William Shakespeare (football) - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare (football) Add languages. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Appearance. move to sidebar hide. From Wikipedia, the free ...

  3. William Shakespeare (American football) - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare was born on Staten Island, New York. [1] His father, Valentine Shakespeare, was a New York City firefighter and the captain of Fire Company 163. [2] The family claimed to be direct descendants of the famed writer William Shakespeare. [3] The younger Shakespeare became a star football player at Staten Island's Port Richmond High ...

  4. 1860s in association football - Wikipedia

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    14 December – An article in The Field called for a common code of football. [4] It inspired Charles Thring, an Uppingham School teacher, in his efforts to create such a code. He was strongly opposed to the Rugby School version of football and championed a strict offside law. [5]

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. A monkey writing Shakespeare? That's much ado about ... - AOL

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    According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.

  8. Ebenezer Cobb Morley - Wikipedia

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    He is regarded as one of the fathers of the Football Association (FA) and modern football. The 1863 laws written by Morley, the first secretary of the FA, includes the rule: "No player shall carry the ball." In 2013, marking the 150th anniversary of the FA, the rule book was displayed at the British Library alongside Magna Carta and works of ...

  9. Timeline of association football - Wikipedia

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    Latvia is the first football team from the Baltic states to make an appearance in a major football competition, UEFA Euro 2004. 2004 in football; Greece produce one of the shocks in football history and become surprise winners of the Euro 2004 football tournament, defeating hosts Portugal 1–0 in the final. Waitakere United is founded.