William Webb-Ellis invented Rugby by picking up the ball and running with it.....whilst playing football, also known as soccer today.
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∙ 14y agoSoccer, the story goes that rugby was invented when a boy playing soccer became bored by the rules and took up the ball.
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∙ 12y agoFootball came first as rugby came from a cheater who played football in a pe lesson and picked up the ball, in a English town called rugby.
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∙ 12y agoRugby starting concept 1823 American Football in 1865
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∙ 12y agosoccer
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Gaelic football was first codified in 1887 rugby football league goes back to 1895
No, peewee football came much later. 1879 the coach at Yale Walter Camp made football from the game of rugby.
Football didnt have any sport come from it however, Football came from a sport known as rugby.
Soccer became Rugby that became American Football.
England won the football world cup first. They won it in 1966, and the Rugby World Cup in 2003.
Football was the first US sport to be televised in the UK. It came only two weeks after the first rugby game was broadcast.
It comes from rugby, where a player has to literally touch the ball down in the end zone for the score to count. American football -- which evolved from rugby -- originally required players to touch the ball down, too. The rule was eventually eliminated, but the name of the score stuck.