Football

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The Rules
====The rules of football are that there has to be a field of a 100 yards, and there has to be 11 players in offense, the ones that have the ball, and to score they have to get to the touchdown that counts as 6 points and plus 1 when they make a field goal, but if they miss the kick they don't get any extra points and stay with 6 points, but there are something called downs, tehere are 4 downs and to pass those 4 downs you have to pass 10 yards in each 4 downs and if they are in fourth down and they dont pass those 4 yards, the ball stays in the same spot you were on fourth down and the other team gest the ball. But first they have to pass the defense, that it is made up of 11 players too, the ones that have to stop the offense to get to the touchdown, and to stop the other team pass the 10 yards. If the dfense catches the ball it's called an interception and they could get to the touchdown if they can, but if the offense stops them their team haves the ball so they could get to the scoring zone. But if the offense scores and doesn't want to kick they can make a convertion, that instead of giving you 1 point it gives it you 2 points, but if they miss they dont get any extra points and stay with 6. But what the offense can do, its that if they are like 30 yards away from the the scoring zone and they are in fourth down they can make a field goal that counts as 3 points. But if the team is 60 yards away from the touchdown they could make a kick so the other team can get it but from far behind.==== ==media type="youtube" key="tlMfUta_q9U" width="425" height="350" align="center" ==

History of Fotball
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of [|rugby football] and [|association football]. Both games have their origins in [|varieties of football] played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a ball is kicked at a [|goal] and/or run over a line. Many games known as "football" were being played at colleges and universities in the United States in the first half of the 19th century.[|[8]][|[9]] [|Walter Camp] American football resulted from several major divergences from rugby football, most notably the rule changes instituted by Walter Camp, considered the "Father of American Football". Among these important changes were the introduction of the line of scrimmage and of [|down-and-distance] rules. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, game play developments by college coaches such as [|﻿Eddie Cochems], [|Amos Alonzo Stagg], [|Knute Rockne], and [|Glenn "Pop" Warner] helped take advantage of the newly introduced [|forward pass]. The popularity of **[|collegiate football]** grew as it became the dominant version of the sport for the first half of the twentieth century. [|Bowl games], a college football tradition, attracted a national audience for collegiate teams. Bolstered by fierce [|rivalries], college football still holds widespread appeal in the US.[|[8]][|[10]][|[11]] The origin of **[|professional football]** can be traced back to 1892, with [|William "Pudge" Heffelfinger's] $500 contract to play in a game for the [|Allegheny Athletic Association] against the [|Pittsburgh Athletic Club]. The first Professional "league" was the [|Ohio League], formed in 1903, and the first Professional Football championship game was between the [|Buffalo Prospects] and the [|Canton Bulldogs] in 1919. In 1920, the American Professional Football Association was formed. The first game was played in [|Dayton, Ohio] on October 3, 1920 with the host [|Triangles] defeating the [|Columbus Panhandles] 14–0. The league changed its name to the [|National Football League] (NFL) two years later, and eventually became the [|major league] of American football. Initially a sport of Midwestern industrial towns in the United States, professional football eventually became a national phenomenon. Football's increasing popularity is usually traced to the [|1958 NFL Championship Game], a contest that has been dubbed the "Greatest Game Ever Played". A rival league to the NFL, the [|American Football League] (AFL), began play in 1960; the pressure it put on the senior league led to a [|merger] between the two leagues and the creation of the [|Super Bowl], which has become the most watched television event in the United States on an annual basis.[|[12]]

Historical Players