Football.
In the 19th century England invented and called the game football 1863 to be precise is when English invented and wrote the rules for Football.....Rugby then evolved from it....and then nfl Gridiron evolved from Rugby
the football field.
Football is the official name for soccer. Soccer comes from association football. Only in the USA and Canada do they say soccer. The global name for football is of course football. The global name for American football is gridiron. Gridiron is a code of handball and not football. Football is a sport where players control the ball with their feet and only football does this. Football has been played for many centuries but had no official rules. The british created rules for football in 1848. After that many codes of handball arose including rugger and gridiron, none of which are codes of football. Question asked by chickenman94
Gridiron is American football where as rugby is not
soccer... more commonly spelled futbol. Internationally, the game of American football is known as 'gridiron'. The vast majority of the world calls soccer football. Only in North America is football called soccer and gridiron called football.
Rules make up the game of football.
soccer... more commonly spelled futbol. Internationally, the game of American football is known as 'gridiron'. The vast majority of the world calls soccer football. Only in North America is football called soccer and gridiron called football.
He is claimed by gridiron fans to have invented invented gridiron, commonly called American football. It's commonly believed that Walter Camp was the person who adapted rugby into the sport of American football.
Jerome Davis - gridiron football - was born on 1974-03-04.
Sean Fleming - gridiron football - was born on 1970-03-19.
Frank Murphy - gridiron football - was born on 1977-02-11.