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American football – which has its roots in rugby – and soccer, are said to have come from Harpaston, an ancient Greek game. The player had to cross the goal line by kicking the ball, or by running with it across it, or by throwing the ball across the goal line to another player. The other team had to try to stop them from doing so. This game is frequently mentioned in the classic literature.

Football is known to have been born in the United States on November 6, 1869 with an inter-collegiate game between the teams from Princeton and Rutgers Universities. Each team had 20 players, and the then game was more close to rugby than today’s football.

Constant rule changes have occurred through the history of football to increase the excitement of the game, and its safety. The first inter-collegiate football rules were chalked out in 1873 when the representatives of the Universities of Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale met for the purpose. This was when the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) was established, and a limit of 15 players to a team was set.

The coach at Yale – Walter Camp – was responsible for the evolution to the modern style of the game from the rugby style. He was also keen to have eleven players per team, and the rules committee of the IFA did just that. The size of the field was also fixed at 110 yards.

The game then was so brutal that it led to 180 serious injuries and 18 deaths. This led to the game being banned by some colleges. President Theodore Roosevelt called upon Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities in 1905, to help save the game from extinction. These three universities agreed upon reforms, and in a further meeting attended by more than 60 schools, a seven member Rules Committee, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was set up.

The rough mass plays were completely banned, and the forward pass became legal. The ball was redesigned, the locking of arms by the teammates was prohibited, the length of the game was shortened to 60 minutes from 70 minutes, and the neutral zone was established.

Football has become the most popular sport in America since the 1960s, outranking baseball. The National Football League (NFL) – the major football league in America – has 32 teams playing in it. Super Bowl, its Championship Game, is televised in more than 150 countries, and watched by half the American households. Super Bowl Sunday is the most watched sport on television in the country.

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