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American football, sometimes called Gridiron, has always been called "Football" in the United States since it was invented. This is why Americans refer to Association football as "soccer", even though the English (who invented the word) generally stopped using that word long ago. The name "Gridiron" comes from a name used to describe or refer to the American football field of play, so-named because of the grid-like jail-bar pattern the lines make.
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Why the US Football Association from 1913 changed its name to US Soccer Football Association in 1945 and then drop the word Football in 1974?
They changed it because of American football (Gridiron) in America, namely the Gridiron Super Bowl that goes on now.AnswerAmerica tried to usurp football with Gridiron (American football). They have failed to do this but gridiron is still popular in the USA. Football continues to grow worldwide as gridiron struggles to get a foot hold worldwide.The Australian football association has changed it's name to football from the nickname soccer so the USA and Canada remains alone in calling football by its nickname soccer.
Is football or soccer bigger in North America?
Football is the official name for soccer. Soccer comes from the Football asssociation. 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 rugby or handball and not football. Football is a sport where players control the ball with their feet and only football does this. Football has more participants in north America and gridiron has more spectators. Mainly because Americans prefer football but struggle with the technicalities and so they do better at gridiron which is a more basic sport.
What is a football gridiron?
the football field.
Is gridiron and rugby the same?
Gridiron is American football where as rugby is not
Is grid another name for a football field?
perhaps, if it is a shortened version of gridiron.
What year was football invented?
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
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