Who inveted football?

Question

Who inveted football?

Answer 1

Australian Rules Football - Invented in the 1850s (with roots in other games including local Aboriginal ones). In White Hat's opinion the greatest team game in the world. In 1858-9 Tom Wills and others codified the rules and these handwritten rules are reproduced in large format in one of the entry foyers of the MCG. By the time other football styles such as soccer and rugby were codified in their modern form, Australian Rules Football was well established and attracting large crowds to the weekly competition.

Answer 2

Walter Camp

Walter Camp was born April 17, 1859, in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Yale from 1876 to 1882, where he studied medicine and business. Walter Camp was an author, athletic director, chairman of the board of the New Haven Clock Company, and director of the Peck Brothers Company. He was general athletic director and head advisory football coach at Yale University from 1888-1914, and chairman of the Yale football committee from 1888-1912. Camp played football at Yale and helped evolve the rules of the game away from Rugby and Soccer rules into the rules of American Football as we know them today.

One precursor to Walter Camp's influence was William Ebb Ellis, a student at the Rugby School in England. In 1823, Ellis was the first person noted for picking up the ball during the soccer game and running with it, thereby breaking and changing the rules. In 1876, at the Massosoit convention, the the first attempts at writing down the rules of American football were made. Walter Camp edited every American Football rulebook until his death in 1925.

Walter Camp contibuted the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football:

one side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations

the line of scrimmage

11 on a team instead of 15

created the quarter-back and center positions

forward pass

standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring

created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone

tackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888

a touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912

The NFL or the National Football League, was formed in 1920

Answer 3

no ones really sure who invented AFL but the game was designed to keep cricketers fit during the off season

Answer 4

Actually  marka akas got all the info correct

but as usual, the vics think they invented the game,(jpd7 just shut up unless you know ur facts) But in actual fact Tom willis was a new south welshman, the only reason it is percieved as being created by a victorian is because the game took off there, before federation there was a lot of rivalry between the states, and they didnt want to be seen as supporting the other states, hence qld is union dominant and nsw leage dominant though things are slowly changing, the game also took off in tassie sa wa but the populations were too small to rival victoria, also in the latter half of the 20th century melbourne was a lot more affluent being one of the countrys major financial centres meaning the vfl had a bit more money through sponsorships and tv rights to pay for the better players many wa ans sa players were lured to victoria poly farmer and darren jarmen are prime examples, This was the largest leauge in terms of salarys teams and fan bases pretty much all to do with victorias much larger population, eventually giving birth to the AFL

Answer 5

Victroian people invented the afl.

Answer 6

From the Official Australian Football League (AFL) [Aussie Rules] site,

"In 1857, Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian Football, returned to Australia after schooling in England where he was football captain of Rugby School and a brilliant cricketer. Initially, he advocated the winter game of football as a way of keeping cricketers fit during off-season...." [1]