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Rugby is now the fastest growing sport in the U.S. and BIG changes to high school rugby – Your Hub". 21 March 2012. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. The iconic ball with a regular pattern of hexagons and pentagons (see truncated icosahedron) did not become popular until the 1960s, and was first used in the World Cup in 1970. a b c d e f "No Christian End!" (PDF). The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889. Professional Football Researchers Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2014 . Retrieved 26 January 2010. Emmerson, Craig. "Analyse the role of the public schools in the development of sport in the nineteenth century". Academia. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021 . Retrieved 8 May 2021.

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The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007 Edition: "In ancient Greece a game with elements of football, episkuros, or harpaston, was played, and it had migrated to Rome as harpastum by the 2nd century BC". Willughby, Francis (2003). Francis Willughby, 1660–72, Book of Games . Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-85928-460-5. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023 . Retrieved 19 June 2010. Football". Etymology Online. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 14 December 2015.Derek Birley (Sport and The Making of Britain). 1993. Manchester University Press. p. 32. 978-0719037597 John Hope, Accounts and papers of the football club kept by John Hope, WS, and some Hope Correspondence 1787–1886 (National Archives of Scotland, GD253/183)

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Rugby: Fastest growing sport in the U.S. also one of the oldest – Global Sport Matters, Rugby: Fastest growing sport in the U.S. also one of the oldest – Global Sport Matters". 19 July 2018. Archived from the original on 1 November 2021 . Retrieved 23 September 2020.The governing body is the "Fédération de soccer du Québec" ". Federation-soccer.qc.ca. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012 . Retrieved 16 April 2012. Walking football – players are restricted to walking, to facilitate participation by older and less mobile players Main article: Football (ball) Richard Lindon (seen in 1880) is believed to have invented the first footballs with rubber bladders. American football is played on a grassy, rectangular field. The field is 120 yards (110 meters) long and 160 feet (49 meters) wide. White lines called end lines and sidelines mark the edges of the field.

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Harvey, Adrian (2005). Football, the First Hundred Years. Routledge. pp.95–99. ISBN 978-0-415-35019-8. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017 . Retrieved 23 September 2016.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.

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The first game of American football is widely cited as a game played on 6 November 1869, between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton. But the game was played under rules based on the association football rules of the time. During the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby code. Minivoetbal – the five-a-side indoor game played in East and West Flanders where it is extremely popular History of Football – Britain, the home of Football". FIFA. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013 . Retrieved 15 June 2018. Ruff, Julius (2001). Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500–1800. Cambridge University Press. p.170. ISBN 978-0-521-59894-1. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 July 2018. soccer, n". Oxford English Dictionary. June 2011. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021 . Retrieved 1 July 2011.Universal football – a hybrid of Australian rules and rugby league, trialled in Sydney in 1933. [158] 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. See also: Episkyros and Cuju Ancient China A painting depicting Emperor Taizu of Song playing cuju (i.e. Chinese football) with his prime minister Zhao Pu (趙普) and other ministers, by the Yuan dynasty artist Qian Xuan (1235–1305)