Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Football

Football is the name given to a number of different, but correlated, team sports. The most popular of these world-wide is organization football also known as soccer. The English word football is also applied to American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby football rugby union and rugby league, and connected games. Each of these codes specific sets of rules is to a greater or lesser area referred to as football and sometimes footy by its followers.
Throughout the history of mankind, the urge to kick at stones and other such objects is thought to have led to many early activities linking kicking and/or running with a ball. Football-like games predate recorded history in all parts of the world, and thus the earliest forms of football are not known.Sheffield Football Club, founded in 1857 in the English city of Sheffield, by former Harrow School pupils Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest, was later recognised as the world's oldest club playing involvement football. However, the club initially played its own code of football the Sheffield system. There were some similarities to the Cambridge rules, but players were allowed to push or hit the ball with their hands, and there was no offside rule at all, so that players known as kick throughs could be permanently placed near the opponents' goal. The code extend to a number of clubs in the area and was popular until the 1870s.

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