The first direct reference to scoring a goal is in John Day's play The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (performed circa 1600; published 1659): "I'll play a gole at camp-ball" (an extremely violent variety of football, which was popular in East Anglia). Similarly in a poem in 1613, Michael Drayton refers to "when the Ball to throw, and drive it to the Gole, in squadrons forth they goe". Because football is a rough game, players wear equipment to protect themselves. They wear padding on their shoulders, hips, thighs, and knees. They also wear a mouth guard and a helmet with a face mask. Public schools' dominance of sports in the UK began to wane after the Factory Act of 1850, which significantly increased the recreation time available to working class children. Before 1850, many British children had to work six days a week, for more than twelve hours a day. From 1850, they could not work before 6a.m. (7a.m. in winter) or after 6p.m. on weekdays (7p.m. in winter); on Saturdays they had to cease work at 2pm. These changes meant that working class children had more time for games, including various forms of football. In the mid-19th century, various traditional football games, referred to collectively as caid, remained popular in Ireland, especially in County Kerry. One observer, Father W. Ferris, described two main forms of caid during this period: the "field game" in which the object was to put the ball through arch-like goals, formed from the boughs of two trees; and the epic "cross-country game" which took up most of the daylight hours of a Sunday on which it was played, and was won by one team taking the ball across a parish boundary. "Wrestling", "holding" opposing players, and carrying the ball were all allowed. Grey Cup History Timeline 1900". Archived from the original on 22 September 2012 . Retrieved 18 January 2015. History of the Grey Cup

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NFL is world's best attended pro sports league". ABS-CBN News. Agence France-Presse. 6 January 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013 . Retrieved 30 January 2013. Vancil, Mark ( Ed.) (2000). ABC Sports College Football All-Time All-America Team. New York: Hyperion Books. p.18. ISBN 978-0-7868-6710-3. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 July 2018. Several of the football codes are the most popular team sports in the world. [9] Globally, association football is played by over 250 million players in over 200 nations, [134] and has the highest television audience in sport, [135] making it the most popular in the world. [136] American football, with 1.1million high school football players and nearly 70,000 college football players, is the most popular sport in the United States, [137] [138] with the annual Super Bowl game accounting for nine of the top ten of the most watched broadcasts in U.S. television history. [139] The NFL has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in the world and has the highest revenue [140] out of any single professional sports league. [141] Thus, the best association football and American football players are among the highest paid athletes in the world. [142] [143] [144]The Social Significance of Sport" (PDF). The Economic and Social Research Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2008 . Retrieved 21 October 2008.

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Reilly, Thomas; Doran, D. (2001). "Science and Gaelic football: A review". Journal of Sports Sciences. 19 (3): 181–193. doi: 10.1080/026404101750095330. PMID 11256823. S2CID 43471221. Keepie uppie (keep up) – the art of juggling with a football using the feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.

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] In 1880, Yale coach Walter Camp, who had become a fixture at the Massasoit House conventions where the rules were debated and changed, devised a number of major innovations. Camp's two most important rule changes that diverged the American game from rugby were replacing the scrummage with the line of scrimmage and the establishment of the down-and-distance rules. [119] American football still however remained a violent sport where collisions often led to serious injuries and sometimes even death. [120] This led U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to hold a meeting with football representatives from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton on 9 October 1905, urging them to make drastic changes. [121] One rule change introduced in 1906, devised to open up the game and reduce injury, was the introduction of the legal forward pass. Though it was underutilised for years, this proved to be one of the most important rule changes in the establishment of the modern game. [122] The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools – mainly attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes – comes from the Vulgaria by William Herman in 1519. Herman had been headmaster at Eton and Winchester colleges and his Latin textbook includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde". [51] Murphy, Brendan (2007). From Sheffield with Love. Sports Book Limited. p.59. ISBN 978-1-899807-56-7. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 July 2018. Samoa rules – localised version adapted to Samoan conditions, such as the use of rugby football fields

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Where Is Rugby the Most Popular Among Students: Comparison of US and UK Student Leagues | Love Rugby League". 17 October 2020. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021 . Retrieved 17 December 2020. NZ Football – The Local Name of the Global Game". NZFootball.co.nz. 27 April 2006. Archived from the original on 22 September 2009. The international game is called football and we're part of the international game so the game in New Zealand should be called football The first references to goals are in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "goals" in Cornish hurling. Carew described how goals were made: "they pitch two bushes in the ground, some eight or ten foote asunder; and directly against them, ten or twelue [twelve] score off, other twayne in like distance, which they terme their Goales". [45] He is also the first to describe goalkeepers and passing of the ball between players. Rugby sevens (1883–), Rugby tens, Rugby X, Touch rugby, Tag rugby, American flag rugby, Mini rugby, Beach rugby, Snow rugby, Tambo rugby, Wheelchair rugby, Underwater rugbya b FIFA.com. "History of FIFA – Foundation". FIFA. Archived from the original on 16 May 2015 . Retrieved 7 November 2019. Australian rules football – officially known as "Australian football", and informally as "football", "footy" or "Aussie rules". In some areas it is referred to as " AFL", the name of the main organising body and competition

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Although football-type games have been around for centuries, the sport we know today is often said to have begun in 1863, when England’s newly formed Football Association wrote down a set of rules. At the time, it was the most widely played game of its kind in the country, but it wasn’t the only one. Rugby football, named after an English boarding school, was a variation that allowed players to carry and run with the ball to advance it toward the goal. The game played under the Football Association’s rules thus became known as association football. History of the RFU". Rugby Football Union. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010 . Retrieved 28 September 2011.

a b "Camp and His Followers: American Football 1876–1889" (PDF). The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889. Professional Football Researchers Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2010 . Retrieved 26 January 2010. In 1995, rugby union became an "open" game, that is one which allowed professional players. [128] Although the original dispute between the two codes has now disappeared – and despite the fact that officials from both forms of rugby football have sometimes mentioned the possibility of re-unification – the rules of both codes and their culture have diverged to such an extent that such an event is unlikely in the foreseeable future. During the early 1860s, there were increasing attempts in England to unify and reconcile the various public school games. In 1862, J. C. Thring, who had been one of the driving forces behind the original Cambridge Rules, was a master at Uppingham School, and he issued his own rules of what he called "The Simplest Game" (these are also known as the Uppingham Rules). In early October 1863, another new revised version of the Cambridge Rules was drawn up by a seven member committee representing former pupils from Harrow, Shrewsbury, Eton, Rugby, Marlborough and Westminster. Rugby union is the most popular sport in New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. [149] It is also the fastest growing sport in the U.S., [150] [151] [152] [153] with college rugby being the fastest growing [ clarification needed] [154] [155] college sport in that country. [156] [ dubious – discuss] Football codes board Medieval football Most of the action in a football game takes place between the goal lines. White lines run across this part of the field every 5 yards (4.6 meters). These lines help to show how far a team has moved the football. Two sets of short lines, called hash marks, cross these lines. Officials use the hash marks to place the ball on the field after play is stopped.