Clipping:Types of football
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| Date | Saturday, November 15, 1890 |
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| Text | Now there are two distinct games of foot ball, namely, the Association and the Rugby. The former is foot ball pure and simple, the ball being always propelled by the foot, and never held in the hands except when caught on the fly. It is the game usually played in Scotland, and also very largely in England. In this country it is principally confined to English and Scotch residents, who largely compose such clubs as the Thistles and Longfellows. In the Rugby game the ball is usually advanced by being carried in the arms of the player, and is only kicked under necessity, or when by nature of the game it seems advisable to do so. It is the game best known in this country, and is the one played under intercollegiate rules. It has, however, undergone many changes since it was introduced here, and has been so improved that it is now the most scientific and strategic game played. Indeed, foot ball is remarkable from this fact, for it was evolved from one of the crudest and most primitive of games, originally consisting of two mobs of men and boys trying to kick a ball in opposite directions. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Comment | For the evolution of American Football, rugby and soccer, see "Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball" by Melvin Smith. For a history of Football as played during the Civil War and before, see Shearman, "Foot-ball: its History for Five Centuries" (1885), which describes the game as sort of a scrum. Winslow Homer has an illustration (see protopix) of soldiers playing football. The game of foot ball was banned in England and Scotland by King Richard II (1389), James II (1458) and Elizabeth I (1571), among others. A search of newspaper.com database 1861-65 reveals no less than 800 mentions in US newspapers of the word football (and variants). Many of these mentions are political, not sporting. [ba] Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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