The American Football has its roots that arise from
rugby. The different universities had been playing football in the
1800s. The first football match between the Rutgers University and
Princeton University was played on November 6, 1869. In that match
Rutgers University won the first game 6-4. From the year 1820 to 1890,
the students of Dartsmouth College played football that was known then
by the name of Old Division Football and they published the rules in
1871. Since American Football was more or like rugby, Yale University’s
Walter Camp encouraged that the schools adopt more standardized rules
so that the game would differentiate from Rugby, which was in 1882.
It
was in the early 1900s that there were about 18 college football
players who died and then the rules changed and required the players to
not form the deadly formations such as the flying wedge and it required
the players to wear protective equipment such as helmets, chest guard,
shoulder guard etc. It was in the year 1912 that the game got its form
of the modern game and the changes that were introduced included a
change in the size of the field, which is the current size, the
touchdown points were increased to 6. The football is considered second
to the baseball in United States.
It was in 1920 that the
National Football League also known as NFL was founded. The football
saw a downtime during the World War II and then with the television
broadcast, the professional football got a kick again and gained a
great deal of popularity at a national level. It was in the 1960s that
the professional game crossed both the college football and the
baseball in popularity. In 1967, the first Super Bowl was played
between the champions of NFL and the American Football League and then
the two leagues were merged together. It would not be wrong to say that
millions of people watch the matches when the teams are at war in the
field.
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