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Debate rages over the naming of these sports, obviously
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'''[[Rugby]]''' Football was derived from Football at the public school in Rugby, UK, when legend has it, a boy, during a game of football picked up the ball and ran to the other end of the field with it. This version uses a more elliptical ball and is divided into Rugby League and Rugby Union. Each use different numbers of players and slightly different rules but the major differnce between these and Football is that point can be scored by placing the ball at each end of the pitch or '''over''' the crossbar.  
 
'''[[Rugby]]''' Football was derived from Football at the public school in Rugby, UK, when legend has it, a boy, during a game of football picked up the ball and ran to the other end of the field with it. This version uses a more elliptical ball and is divided into Rugby League and Rugby Union. Each use different numbers of players and slightly different rules but the major differnce between these and Football is that point can be scored by placing the ball at each end of the pitch or '''over''' the crossbar.  
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'''[[American football]]''' was created in the nineteenth century and was derived from Rugby. Originally played at the college level, professional teams were created in 1920.  This version uses a smaller ball and is rarely played outside the USA.  
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'''[[American football]]''' was created in the nineteenth century and was derived from Rugby. Originally played at the college level, professional teams were created in 1920.  This version uses a smaller ball and is rarely played outside the USA.   Despite the fact that apart from place kicking, the foot is almost never used in the sport, Americans use the term [[football]], and insist on the use of the term [[soccer]] to refer to what the rest of the world calls '[[football]]'.  This causes tremendous conflict, as [[football]] is played almost exclusively with only the foot. [http://cultureofsoccer.com/2007/03/06/soccer-by-any-other-name-2/]
    
==See also==
 
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