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Because it began as a kicking-oriented game on American college campuses in the 19th century. It didn't begin to take its current form until the colleges drew up a standardized set of rules in the 1870s, based on the English Rugby code. Rugby, of course, is really "rugby football," and since everyone already called the game football, the name stuck. It probably didn't seem odd back then, since the game still remained more heavily oriented toward kicking, until the legalization of the forward pass in the early 20th century.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the length of the football, which is not a foot long anyway.
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Why is soccer referred to as footbol?
The real name for Soccer is Football. You use your foot, to move the ball. Football was invented before American Football, the rules were written before American Football's rules. American Football shouldn't be called Football because the foot is barely used.
Why do football players lick their hands?
to get a big grip on the ball
Who found football and how?
i would suggest Google or ask.com to get some more info! i got this info from Google, which brought me 2 wiki answers, to the question, who invented the game of football! Throughout history people have played sports involving ball and using hands, feet and sticks. Each local area had their own rules so there was no definitive global definition of any sport. In the 1300's the king of England Edward III banned football, hockey and handball. This shows a difference between sports using the feet, hands and sticks. So football was traditionally played using the feet and not the hands. In 1863 at Cambridge university a group of Englishmen formed the Football Association and invented football. After this event many other "versions" of football were invented. Rugby and Australian rules were the first. In north America rugby and football were both played, and a hybrid of these two sports was invented called Gridiron (American football) The first sport called football with global rules is football, other sports using the term football have words placed in front such as rugby, Gridiron (American) or Aussie Rules (Australian) or Gaelic (Irish) to differentiate them from football. There remains only one football accepted by FIFA and the Olympic committee.
What are the football pants called?
I don't think football pants are called anything special, just pants.
What football team was called Washington's fisher goes wild?
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