HERE IS ONE ON FOOTBALL. The contemporary history of the world's favourite game spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and associationfootball branched off on their different courses and the Football Association in England was formed - becoming the sport's first governing body
On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college football game. However, it wasn't until the 1880s that a great rugby player from Yale, Walter Camp, pioneered rules changes that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football..The Middle Ages saw a huge rise in popularity of annual Shrovetide football matches throughout Europe, particularly in England. An early reference to a ball game played in Britain comes from the 9th century Historia Brittonum, which describes "a party of boys ... playing at ball".Thats all i got
