Football - Ancient games

Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The most popular of these worldwide is Association football, which is called soccer in several countries. The English language word football is also applied to Rugby football (Rugby union and Rugby league), American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, and Canadian football. When the term "foot ball" originated, it referred to a wide variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot — that is, by peasants — as oppose ...

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• Football - Ancient games
• Football - Mediæval football
• Football - Calcio Fiorentino
• Football - Official disapproval and attempts to ban football
• Football - The establishment of modern codes of football
• Football - English public schools
• Football - The Cambridge Rules
• Football - Other developments in the 1850s
• Football - Australian Rules football
• Football - The Football Association
• Football - Rugby football
• Football - North American football
• Football - Gaelic football
• Football - The split in rugby football
• Football - The reform of American football
• Football - The two rugby codes diverge further
• Football - Football today
• Football - Use of the word football in English-speaking countries
• Football - Games descended from the FA rules of 1863
• Football - Games descended from Rugby School rules
• Football - Irish and Australian varieties of football
• Football - Surviving Mediæval ball games
• Football - Other surviving public school games
• Football - More recent inventions and derivations
• Football - Tabletop games and other recreations

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Football - English public schools. The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools — attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes — comes from the Vulgaria by William Horman in 1519. Horman had been headmaster at Eton College and Winchester and his Latin textbook includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde". The first specific mention of football can be found in a Latin poem by Robert ...

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Throughout the history of mankind the urge to kick at stones and other such objects is thought to have led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball. Football-like games predate recorded history in all parts of the world, though the earliest forms of football are not known. Football - Ancient games. Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the ...

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Football, Football - History, Football - Ancient games, Football - Mediæval football, Football - Calcio Fiorentino, Football - Official disapproval and attempts to ban football, Football - The establishment of modern codes of football, Football - English public schools, Football - The Cambridge Rules, Football - Other developments in the 1850s, Football - Australian Rules football, Football - The Football Association, Football - Rugby football, Football - North American football, Football - Gaelic football, Football - The split in rugby football, Football - The reform of American football, Football - The two rugby codes diverge further, Football - Football today, Football - Use of the word football in English-speaking countries, Football - Games descended from the FA rules of 1863, Football - Games descended from Rugby School rules, Football - Irish and Australian varieties of football, Football - Surviving Mediæval ball games, Football - Other surviving public school games, Football - More recent inventions and derivations, Football - Tabletop games and other recreations

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Throughout the history of mankind the urge to kick at stones and other such objects must have inevitably led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball. Football-like games undoubtedly predate recorded history in all parts of the world and the earliest forms of football can only be guessed at. Football - Ancient games. Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the ...

See also:

Football, Football - History, Football - Ancient games, Football - Mediæval football, Football - Calcio Fiorentino, Football - Official disapproval and attempts to ban football, Football - The establishment of modern codes of football, Football - English public schools, Football - The Cambridge Rules, Football - Other developments in the 1850s, Football - Australian Rules football, Football - The Football Association, Football - Rugby football, Football - North American football, Football - Gaelic football, Football - The split in rugby football, Football - The reform of American football, Football - The two rugby codes diverge further, Football - Football today, Football - Use of the word football in English-speaking countries, Football - Games descended from the FA rules of 1863, Football - Games descended from Rugby School rules, Football - Irish and Australian varieties of football, Football - Surviving Mediæval ball games, Football - Other surviving public school games, Football - More recent inventions and derivations, Football - Tabletop games and other recreations

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