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Evolution of Football Codes

Football is a family of team sports that involve kicking a ball to score a goal. There are several codes of football that are popular in different parts of the world, including association football (soccer), American football, Australian rules football, rugby football (rugby league and rugby union), and Gaelic football. Various forms of football have a long history as popular peasant games, and the modern codes developed from codifying these traditional games at English public schools in the 19th century. By the late 19th century, regional codes had developed as the British Empire spread the rules to its areas of influence and Gaelic football incorporated local traditional football games. Several forms of football grew to become some of the most popular global team sports in the 20th

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Evolution of Football Codes

Football is a family of team sports that involve kicking a ball to score a goal. There are several codes of football that are popular in different parts of the world, including association football (soccer), American football, Australian rules football, rugby football (rugby league and rugby union), and Gaelic football. Various forms of football have a long history as popular peasant games, and the modern codes developed from codifying these traditional games at English public schools in the 19th century. By the late 19th century, regional codes had developed as the British Empire spread the rules to its areas of influence and Gaelic football incorporated local traditional football games. Several forms of football grew to become some of the most popular global team sports in the 20th

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Football

Several codes of football. Images, from top to down, left to right: association football (soccer),
Australian rules football, international rules football, a rugby union scrum, rugby league, and
American football.
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to
score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is
the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears. Sports commonly called
'football' in certain places include: association football (known as soccer in some countries);
gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football;
rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union); and Gaelic football.[1][2] These different
variations of football are known as football codes.
Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games.
Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English
public schools during the nineteenth century.[3][4] The expanse of the British Empire allowed these
rules of football to spread to areas of British influence outside the directly controlled Empire.[5] By
the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic football,
for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to
maintain their heritage.[6] In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the
first of many professional football competitions. During the twentieth century, several of the various
kinds of football grew to become some of the most popular team sports in the world.[7]

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