History of Football
Football before the 19th century referred to any number of ball games played on foot. The rules of these games differed from one another, some allowing the use of hands running games, others forbidding it kicking games.
One legend has it that the football game rugby, American football’s ancestor, was invented when an Englishman grew tired of the no hands restriction, picked the ball up, and ran.
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