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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 ...
1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff; 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto; 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New ...
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George Tarasovic, American football player (d. 2019) David Carpenter, serial killer; May 7 – Babe Parilli, American football player (d. 2017) May 8 – Gary Snyder, poet, essayist and translator [38] May 10. Adam Darius, dancer and choreographer (d. 2017) George E. Smith, physicist, engineer and Nobel Prize laureate
1930 British Home Championship (October 19, 1929 – April 5, 1930) England. I. Dr. Gerö Cup (September 18, 1927 – May 11, 1930) Italy. FIFA World Cup in Uruguay (July 13 – 30 1930) Uruguay Argentina; Baltic Cup 1930 in Lithuania (August 15–17, 1930) Lithuania. 1929-32 Nordic Football Championship (June 14, 1929 – September 25, 1932)
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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 ...
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 1902.