2006-06-24 08:33:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
we are having a debate here and now in my house
2006-06-24 08:35:29 · update #1
Some say it was the English, some say it was stolen from Chinese and added to, some say arabs. Please who knows who invented normal football not soccer
2006-06-24 08:46:51 · update #2
well thats realy a hard question but this web site link I have for you should be great help. It talks about the person that is beleived to have created the sport it tells yiou the what hwen and where and even infotmation on how it developed from another actual sport.
Just incase you met football (soccer) I also have a link that can anser your question better then I can. it's the second one below
2006-06-24 08:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by pnutbutter25 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
which one..american football?(NFL)
Walter Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was a football coach known as the "Father of American Football". He is generally regarded as the inventor of the game and the most significant person in the history of American football.
Soccer (International Football AsSOCiation)
There is documentary evidence that a a game or skill building exercise, involving kicking a ball into a small net, was used by the Chinese military during the Han Dynasty - around the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC.Earlier evidence - of a field marked out to play a ball-kicking game has been found at Kyoto, in Japan.
Both the Greeks and ancient Romans played a soccer-type game which resembled modern soccer - although in this early version, teams could consist of up to 27 players!
Football or Soccer?
In the 1880's, Oxford University students used slang which involved adding an "er" to the end of words they had deliberately shortened."Rugger," was slang for Rugby Football.
A student, named Charles Wreford Brown, was asked if he liked to play rugger. 'No soccer!' Was his witty reply.
He had shortened asSOCiation (football) and added "er."
The term was coined!
Wreford Brown went on to play international football, (oops!) soccer, for England!
2006-06-24 15:42:24 · answer #2 · answered by juanes addicion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well there is a story that i heard is that the english had once won a war against france... and the cut of the head of a french general and started kicking it around... so thats how it cam about...
not really sure about the story
2006-06-24 15:39:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was... and is... and shall always be English!
As Kipling said... as I stand and watch these ships, these brave men... my heart being always English!
2006-06-24 15:51:48 · answer #4 · answered by HackneyDemon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5076326.stm
2006-06-24 15:51:11 · answer #5 · answered by aniski7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋