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Skriven 2005-03-30 17:29:00 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
   Kommentar till text 9181 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
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 ml>> rugby uses an oval ball, too...

 BF>    Yep, that's why I think American Rugby would be a more
 BF> appropriate name of the game. And I still am seriously
 BF> interested in knowing why it's called football, but it seems
 BF> nobody actually knows why.

google is your friend ;)

according to the below, rugby was derived from soccer in 1823... i suspect that
it is there that the use of football came for all three sports...


http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfootball.htm


History of Football
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Derived from the English game of rugby, American football was started in 1879
with rules instituted by Walter Camp, player and coach at Yale University.

Walter Camp was born April 17, 1859, in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended
Yale from 1876 to 1882, where he studied medicine and business. Walter Camp was
an author, athletic director, chairman of the board of the New Haven Clock
Company, and director of the Peck Brothers Company. He was general athletic
director and head advisory football coach at Yale University from 1888-1914,
and chairman of the Yale football committee from 1888-1912. Camp played
football at Yale and helped evolve the rules of the game away from Rugby and
Soccer rules into the rules of American Football as we know them today.

One precursor to Walter Camp's influence was William Ebb Ellis, a student at
the Rugby School in England. In 1823, Ellis was the first person noted for
picking up the ball during the soccer game and running with it, thereby
breaking and changing the rules. In 1876, at the Massosoit convention, the the
first attempts at writing down the rules of American football were made. Walter
Camp edited every American Football rulebook until his death in 1925.

Walter Camp contibuted the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American
football:

    * one side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side
gives up the ball as a result of its own violations
    * the line of scrimmage
    * 11 on a team instead of 15
    * created the quarter-back and center positions
    * forward pass
    * standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring
    * created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone
    * tackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888
    * a touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to
three points - 1912

The NFL or the National Football League, was formed in 1920.



and there's this one...

http://www.footballresearch.com/articles/frpage.cfm%3Ftopic=d%2Dt o1889

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