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Football". Etymology Online. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 14 December 2015.

For a long time, the British teams would be dominant. After some decades, clubs from Prague, Budapest and Sienna would be the primarily contenders to the British dominance.The first football international, Scotland versus England. Once kept by the Rugby Football Union as an early example of rugby football. The offense has four tries, called downs, to move the ball at least 10 yards. If the offense fails to do this, the other team gets the ball. If the offense does move the ball 10 yards or more, it gets another four downs. This continues until the offense scores, the defense takes away the ball, or time runs out. Bennett, Tom (1976). The Pro Style: The Complete Guide to Understanding National Football League Strategy. Los Angeles: National Football League Properties, Inc., Creative Services Division. p.20. English public schools were the first to codify football games. In particular, they devised the first offside rules, during the late 18th century. [58] In the earliest manifestations of these rules, players were "off their side" if they simply stood between the ball and the goal which was their objective. Players were not allowed to pass the ball forward, either by foot or by hand. They could only dribble with their feet, or advance the ball in a scrum or similar formation. However, offside laws began to diverge and develop differently at each school, as is shown by the rules of football from Winchester, Rugby, Harrow and Cheltenham, during between 1810 and 1850. [58] The first known codes – in the sense of a set of rules – were those of Eton in 1815 [59] and Aldenham in 1825. [59]) In 1314, Nicholas de Farndone, Lord Mayor of the City of London issued a decree banning football in the French used by the English upper classes at the time. A translation reads: "[f]orasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large foot balls [ rageries de grosses pelotes de pee] [40] in the fields of the public from which many evils might arise which God forbid: we command and forbid on behalf of the king, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in the future." This is the earliest reference to football.

a b c d e f g h i j Football: The First Hundred Years. The Untold Story. Adrian Harvey. 2005. Routledge, London Rugby is now the fastest growing sport in the U.S. and BIG changes to high school rugby – Your Hub". 21 March 2012. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Fuse Explores the Surge in Sports Participation: Why Teens Play and Why They Don't | Business Wire". 12 July 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021 . Retrieved 24 September 2020. A football", in the sense of a ball rather than a game, was first mentioned in 1486. [42] This reference is in Dame Juliana Berners' Book of St Albans. It states: "a certain rounde instrument to play with ...it is an instrument for the foote and then it is calde in Latyn 'pila pedalis', a fotebal". [38]RFU". englandrugby.com. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021 . Retrieved 7 November 2019.

a b Bale, J. (2002). Sports Geography. Taylor & Francis. p.43. ISBN 978-0-419-25230-6. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 July 2018. Austus – a compromise between Australian rules and American football, invented in Melbourne during World War II.

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The International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) was founded in 1886, [126] but rifts were beginning to emerge in the code. Professionalism had already begun to creep into the various codes of football. Wangerin, David (2008). Soccer in a football world: the story of America's forgotten game. Philadelphia: Temple University Press . Retrieved 23 June 2020. History of Football – Britain, the home of Football". FIFA. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013 . Retrieved 15 June 2018.