American football Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
form of team game played with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron
About American football
Football finds its origins inrugby, which bears some general similarities to gridiron-style football. (Association football—or "soccer"—also split from rugby around the same time, albeit in a very different direction.) The first football games were played by the colleges of the Northeastern United States, with the first recognized football game taking place in 1869, soon followed by the establishment of a standard set of rules and intercollegiate play. The game closely resembled rugby, but as it evolved through the 1870s and 80s football began to break from its rugby roots, particularly with the innovation of the "line of scrimmage" and the "snap" (passing the ball backwards at the start of play).Walter Camp, then-captain of Yale's football team and now considered the "Father of American F
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