Who Invented Football?

Football is a word that is confusing andAmerican Colleges. It is said that by the time
entertaining and a sport that epitomized the prideAmerica first heard of football, Canada already
of a nation and the strength of an athlete. Inhas their professional football league of sorts.
other places, football is a game known as soccerCHINA
in America. Football in America is where theSome say that football was invented by Chinese
quarterback throws the ball to a receiver anda thousand years ago. The ancient Chinese were
everybody is running around the gridiron. Andsaid to have kick a ball back and forth for
football in Europe and other parts of the worldexercise and amusement. It is said that the
means soccer, where guys run around the fieldEnglish only re-invented the sport after explorers
tossing a ball around their knees and head. Whew!visited this far away land. So was it really the
That was confusing. So who really inventedChinese who invented football?
football?ROMANS
AMERICAThey say it all started in Rome. Romans started
The "Father of American Football", Walter C.playing football quite differently at that time, it is
Camp was a football coach and a sports writersaid that they originally toss and throw the pig's
and the one who invented football. His namehead around staking a claim on it. They found it
became is legend in the American Football history.fun and engaging thus it became a sport and thus
He took the rugby game to the next level andit was them who invented football.
invented football. He borrowed term from theENGLAND
rugby game and applied it to football; in rugby,It was the English who invented the football, or
five guys lined-up and are called scrum; in football,did they? It has been reported that forms of
he change the five guys to seven guys formingfootball were played as early as 1200 in England.
the offensive line, this is called the Line ofAs evidence, they pointed out a game seen
Scrimmage. Get it? Scrum and scrimmage?played in ancient Greece, it is believed to be the
CANADApredecessor of football. But this game is said to
Some claims the football is truly a Canadian gamebe forbade by The King Henry VI and by the
and it was a Canadian who invented football.19th century, it was split into two games; the
Invented by the replacement for British troopssoccer and the rugby. And because American
entering Quebec in the 1600's. Canadianfootball evolved from the rugby, the English are
Universities then introduced the game tobasically staking a claim on both football sports.