American Football Sports


This category is for topics relating to American rules football, by various measures the most popular spectator team sport in the United States.Kicking games were practiced in pre-colonial and colonial times under various rules. The first intercollegiate matchup took place on November 6, 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers Universities, but the distinctive rules of American football developed from the merging of the soccer-like rules adopted by Princeton, Rutgers, Yale and Columbia with those of the rugby-like running game observed by Harvard and McGill in the 1870s and 1880s.








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  • Wikipedia: American football - Encyclopedia article covering the history of the sport, american its popularity, sports rules, basic strategy, and physicality.
  • PigskinHeaven.com - NFL, College, and fantasy football forums.


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