Why was football named football?

Answer 1

AnswerThe question has actually been directed to two totally different countries and parts of the world - America and Australia.

In America, Walter Camp was the person who adapted Rugby into the sport of football. College students were bored with normal sports so invented football and played it.

BY:Harpreet Bhullar

Others are more of the view, however, that the American football game was the outcome of amalgamating both soccer and rugby, and that it was mostly Walter Camp himself who was bored with rugby, rather than hisstudents.

In Australia, the main person behind formalizing a set of Australian Rules [actually, 'Victorian' rules initially, as each state was a separate colony until federation in 1901] for football based upon rugby and other games was Wills. It was the outcome of a Melbourne Cricket Club initiative to keep cricketers fit over the winter months while not playing cricket. Of course, nowadays, football is by far the more popular game in most Australian states!

Answer 2

The rules of soccer (Association Football) were written by a man called Ebenezer C. Morley in 1863.

Morley was the first secretary of the 'Football Association' in England who were attempting to standardise the many forms of football being played at the time.

Morley based his 'Laws of the game' on Cambridge Rules football, first drafted at Cambridge University in 1848.

Ultimately they failed to standardise football because some of the Football Association founder members could not agree on the rules. They decided to develop Rugby school football instead, and in 1871 delivered Rugby Union Football.

Answer 3

Association Football ("Soccer")Because the sport requires you to kick a ball using your foot (to specify the main rule of the sport: 10 of the 11 players in a team must use their feet and not their hands), and ball because it is played with a spherical object. American Football

Because the ball (actually a prolate object) measures one foot in length.

Answer 4

A retard wanted to attempt to have fun and couldn't say footy so made the word soccer, he made the ball the shape of his head. Sorry it wasn't a retard just an American same thing tho.

Answer 5

There are a great many reasons why flag football was invented. This sport was meant to be a less harmful sport than touch football but still be just as fun.

Answer 6

because someone was board and he decided to play a game with a ball

Answer 7

Well it was fun kicking a ball around and we English like to improve the fun by inventing rules.