what year was the first football game played?

Answer 1

During the 1820s a group of students at Princeton began playing what was then known as 'ballown'. There were no hard and fast rules applied to this earliest attempt at the game we now call football. At Harvard, the freshman and sophomore classes competed in a football-type game played on the first Monday of each school year. This event came to be known as 'Bloody Monday' because of the roughness of the game. Pick up games, similar in style to that played on 'Bloody Monday', soon became popular on the Boston Common, catching on in popularity around 1860. Soon after the end of the American Civil War, around 1865, colleges began organizing football games.

In 1867, Princeton led the way in establishing some rudimentary rules of the game. Also in that year, the football itself was patented for the very first time.

In 1873, representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale met in New York City to formulate the first intercollegiate football rules for the increasingly popular game still being played with many of the rules of soccer. These four teams established the Intercollegiate Football Association, and set the number of players allowed on each team as fifteen. Walter Camp, the coach at Yale with a desire for an eleven man team, helped begin the final step in the evolution from rugby-style play to the modern game of American Football. The IFA 's rules committee, led by Camp, soon cut the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and also instituted the size of the playing field, at 110 yards. In 1882 Camp also introduced the system of downs, but the system of downs was not finished until 1912, when the fourth down was added. Tackling below the waist was legalized in 1888.

Answer 2

The first meeting of the teams occurred on November 13, 1875 at Hamilton Field in New Haven; Harvard won 4-0.

Football in the USA as we know it today.

Answer 3

The accepted date is November 6, 1869, when Rutgers played Princeton.

Answer 4

American football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp.

Answer 5

1873 and Walter Camp was instrumental in beginning the sport.

Answer 6

the myans played it dont know the year but they used a human head and played until everyone was dead execpt one and he was the winner