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Footbag – several variations using a small bean bag or sand bag as a ball, the trade marked term hacky sack is sometimes used as a generic synonym. The game played in the 19th century resembled mob football that developed in medieval Europe, including a version popular on university campuses known as old division football, and several municipalities banned its play in the mid-19th century.

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Football was played in Ireland in 1308, with a documented reference to John McCrocan, a spectator at a "football game" at Newcastle, County Down being charged with accidentally stabbing a player named William Bernard. The origins of an organised game of football known today as Australian rules football can be traced back to 1858 in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria. S. President Theodore Roosevelt to hold a meeting with football representatives from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton on 9 October 1905, urging them to make drastic changes. The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools – mainly attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes – comes from the Vulgaria by William Herman in 1519. I have a few editions written by Neft/Cohen covering the NFL from 1960 through 90, 93 and 98 but this book goes all the way back to the beginning.

This is considered by historians to be a defining moment in the creation of Australian rules football. The first known codes – in the sense of a set of rules – were those of Eton in 1815 [59] and Aldenham in 1825. Volata – a game resembling association football and European handball, devised by Italian fascist leader, Augusto Turati, in the 1920s.

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Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. There is also an account in Latin from the end of the 15th century of football being played at Caunton, Nottinghamshire.There is evidence for schoolboys playing a "football" ball game in Aberdeen in 1633 (some references cite 1636) which is notable as an early allusion to what some have considered to be passing the ball. In 1903, the Ontario Rugby Football Union adopted the Burnside rules, which implemented the line of scrimmage and down-and-distance system from American football, among others.