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Why do Yanks call Rugby football?
Rugby and American football are two completely different games. Americans refer to rugby as rugby, and American football as football.
What does football mean to most people?
Which Version? The US call American football-football and association football-soccer.In the UK we call association football-football,Rugby football-Rugby and American football a girl's game because of all the padding they wear!
How did American football grow?
It is said that football evolved from rugby and rugby evolved from soccer
Is gridiron and rugby the same?
Gridiron is American football where as rugby is not
Where did American football start?
Rugby
American Football is a combination of what two sports?
American football evolved out of rugby. It wasn't a combination of two games. -actually football was combined from soccer AND rugby.
What is rugby similar to?
Rugby actually preceded games which use some of the principles such as American football Gaelic football. There are two related types of Rugby. Rugby League and Rugby Union.
Is rugby paying more than football?
The wages are increasing in rugby compared to soccer and American football
What is the sport to which American football can be traced?
American football is an overly simplified version of rugby league.
The roots of American Football come from soccer and what other sport?
Soccer --> Rugby --> American Football
What two sports are called football in Britain?
There are three types of football in Britain. Football which is known as soccer in the US and Canada, American Football which is also called GridIron, and Rugby Football which is subdivided into Rugby Union and Rugby League.
American football is a combination of soccer and this sport?
Rugby
