football history

The other schools moved ahead refining their rules and eventually their game became known as "association football" – or soccer, which was played back then much as it is today.

Rugby School went in a different direction. How and why the game developed differently at Rugby School appears to have been lost in history, but what is known running with the ball atwas in common use and 18 foot goal posts had been added with a cross-bar at 10 feet above the ground.

The inclusion of the cross-bar was accompanied by a rule that a goal could only be scored by the ball passing over the bar from a drop kick.this was done to make scoring easier from further out and also to avoid the horde of defenders standing in and blocking the mouth of the goal.

Players make a mark on the goal line and then walk back onto the field of play to a point where a place kick at the . There was also an rule used to keep the teams apart. Passing the ball forward was not allowed.

By the mid-1860s British schools and universities had taken up Rugby's game and honored the school by giving the the name of rugby.

The game soon went trans-Atlantic to America and landed on fertile soil.

Football soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long history. Football in its current form arose in England in the middle of the 19th .It is, howeverin which degree the British people were influenced by this and in which they had developed their own variants.

Early history and the precursors of football
The first known examples of a team game involving a ball, , the ball would symbolize the sun and the captain of the losing team would be sacrificed to the gods.

The first known ball game which also involved kicking took place In China in the 3rd and 2nd century BC under the name Cuju. Cuju was played with a round ball on an area of a square. It later spread to Japan and was practiced under ceremonial forms.

Other earlier variety of ball games had been known from Greece. The ball was made by with hair. The first documents of balls filled with air are. In the Ancient Rome, games with balls were not included in the on the big arenas, but could occur in in the military. It was the Roman culture that wouldto the British island.