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American football also faced pressures to ban the sport. By the 20th century, the game had evolved to a more rugby style game. The Middle Ages saw a huge rise in popularity of annual Shrovetide football matches throughout Europe, particularly in England. An early reference to a ball game played in Britain comes from the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, attributed to Nennius, which describes "a party of boys ... playing at ball". References to a ball game played in northern France known as La Soule or Choule, in which the ball was propelled by hands, feet, and sticks, date from the 12th century. The Ancient Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games, some of which involved the use of the feet.

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On the other hand, there are also historians who support the theory that Australian rules football and Gaelic Football have some common origins. 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.

Within a few years the NRFU rules had started to diverge from the RFU, most notably with the abolition of the line-out. This was followed by the replacement of the ruck with the "play-the-ball ruck", which allowed a two-player ruck contest between the tackler at marker and the player tackled. Mauls were stopped once the ball carrier was held, being replaced by a play-the ball-ruck. The separate Lancashire and Yorkshire competitions of the NRFU merged in 1901, forming the Northern Rugby League, the first time the name rugby league was used officially in England. 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.

I’m a proponent of TNF, love having a game to look forward to during the week. Ryan is getting nothing from his team and is running for his life at all times. Fans leaving at the BEGINNING of OT….that says it all. That provided the Colts with plenty of time to drive 67 yards in 10 plays to set up the game-tying field goal. Underwater FOOTBALL – played in a pool, and the ball can only be played when underwater.