College Football was suspended during the 1905-06 season when Rough Rider himself President Theodore Roosevelt convened a conference of football coaches and officials to reconstruct and hence reform the game. Teddy's reforms, including the introduction of the forward pass and other rule changes, were taken up.
It should be noted numerous high schools and colleges - most recently Hofstra, have dropped or abandoned football as an athletic practice due to safety issues (accidents) or the all too typical monetary restraints.
Bayonne High temporarily suspended football some time in the late thirties- but the grid came back.
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Leeds United after being robbed of a deserved trophy in Paris.
Archery (compulsory) Golf (banned) Street football - very violent, with large teams playing, and only a few spectators.
the English invented football writing the rules for it in 1863.... if you notice on alot of the European clubs badges (Barcelona, ac milan) they have the English flag on their badge, this is because English people started up these clubs. Nope, it is likely that the English developed the modern game. No,English invented football
The NFL first introduced radios in helmets in 1956. However, they were later banned until 1994, and the original radio helmet is now in the football Hall of Fame.
It isn't banned reading.