Talk:History of American football

Soccer is un-American and we shouldn't be listing it here. Although perhaps we could instead show the US Women's Soccer Team, who won the World Cup a few years ago? GodisGreat 14:53, 21 March 2007 (PST).

This should be more about American football. DanH 13:40, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Rename to American Football

This article should be called American Football or even Football (America). Hannibal ad portas 06:18, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

I moved the article to History of American football. --Ed Poor 06:32, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

Rugby?

Just curious, is rugby considered a form of football? I thought 'football' refers only to what in America is called 'soccer' and to 'american football'. Leopeo 06:38, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

The term "football" applies to a number of sports.

• In American English, it never means soccer.
• In English as spoken abroad, it nearly always means soccer.

Rubgy is also a kind of football game, and it is closer to American football than it is to soccer. In both games, there is a sort of touchdown and a field goal.

It might help US-UK relations (among us contributors anyway ;-) if we compared rugby to American football. --Ed Poor 07:26, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

Is rugby comparable to American football? American footballers wear body armor and helmets, rugby players don't. The rules are completely different too. The similarities are superficial. Auld Nick 07:31, 13 May 2007 (EDT)

Rugby is commonly known as Football in the UK, Australia and New Zealand (in the UK it shares that name with soccer and is perhaps overshadowed by the more popular game). The Rugby Football Union is the governing body of Rugby Football in the UK.

In Canada Rugby Football evolved into Canadian Football. Both in the US and Canada the respective modern forms of Football have their origin in Rugby Football. Rugby refers to the place the game's laws were successfully set down (a school in England). There were many versions of what is now Rugby Football. One of the founding clubs of the English Football Association was a Rugby Club. They decided not to remain in the FA due to the lack of carrying the ball.

In the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland, football refers to Rugby League (a slightly different version of Rugby Football). Rugby players wear some minimal body armour and in recent years head protection. Despite the very heavy tackling and the likelihood of being knocked to the ground Rugby players do not wear any where near the padding of American Football. Despite the recent change of name in Australia of the Soccer Association to the Football Federation to say Football to an Aussie will mean Rugby or Australian Rules Football, never Soccer. Hannibal ad portas 08:36, 13 May 2007 (EDT)