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The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field
nglish public schools were the first to codify football games. In particular, they devised the first offside rules, during the late 18th century.[59] In the earliest manifestations of these rules, players were “off their side” if they simply stood between.
Thomas is quoted as saying, in about 1841 in that he had witnessed Aboriginal people playing the game: “Mr Thomas describes how the foremost player will drop kick a ball made from the skin of a and how other players leap into
strike the ball again) in the original Latin. It is not certain that the ball was being struck between members of the same team. The original word translated as “goal” is “metum”, literally meaning the “pillar at each end of the
the beginning of Rugby football, but there is little evidence that it occurred, and most sports historians believe Webb Ellis showed disregard was running forward with it as the rules of his time only allowed a player to retrea
e the story to be apocryphal. The act of ‘taking the ball in his arms’ is often misinterpreted as ‘picking the ball up’ as each school played by its own rules. The solution to this problem was usually that the match be divided
the first offside rules, during the late 18th century.[59] 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.
ome smaller number with such overlooking, sorted into sides and standings, not meeting with their bodies so boisterously to trie their strength: nor shouldring or shuffing one an other so barbarously may use footeball for as much good to the body, by the chiefe use of the legges
After lunch all the youth of the city go out into the fields to take part in a ball game. The students of each school have their own ball; the workers from each city craft are also carrying their balls. Older citizens, fathers, and wealthy citizens come
as it is widely believed that Webb Ellis’ ‘crime’ was handling the ball, as in modern association Inter-school sporting competitions became possible. However, it was difficult for schools to play each other at football
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