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Soccer, the story goes that rugby was invented when a boy playing soccer became bored by the rules and took up the ball.
Football 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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What came first Rugby League Football or Irish Gaelic Football?
Gaelic football was first codified in 1887 rugby football league goes back to 1895
When they first invented football did they have peewee football?
No, peewee football came much later. 1879 the coach at Yale Walter Camp made football from the game of rugby.
What sport came from football?
Football didnt have any sport come from it however, Football came from a sport known as rugby.
The game of football came from the games of?
Soccer became Rugby that became American Football.
Which came first England wining the football World Cup or the ruby World Cup?
England won the football world cup first. They won it in 1966, and the Rugby World Cup in 2003.
What was the first US spoprt to be televised in the UK and when?
Football was the first US sport to be televised in the UK. It came only two weeks after the first rugby game was broadcast.
What was rugby football?
football was a sport with many variations, each school had there own version of football, oxford football, cambridge football, ect. rugby football was football from rugby school in the town of rugby, when students went to university after they left school they took their versions of rugby with them and rugby came out of this, this was back in the 1850's when this happened and from there the sport of rugby football spread to different countries, the split between the two codes came in the early 20th centuary when workers who played rugby football demanded pay for broken time when playing rugby football when they could of been at work earning money, many clubs wanted to stay amature as a game but some clubs resisted and split from the rest to form the northen leage, this became rugby league. the rugby union stayed amature untill 1995 when the game turned proffessional as it was attracting a worldwide audience and it couldn't stay amatue.. there is your basic history of rugby any questions?
Is rugby a toponym?
Yes the name for the sport rugby came from the place (Rugby School) where the sport was first played
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.
Did football originate from rugby?
Rugby originated from soccer (football)
Who came up the name touchdown?
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.
What came first football or cheerleading?
football
