A Brief History Of American Football The sport that those in the US call “football” is more accurately called “gridiron football,” because the field is marked by vertical yard lines. Gridiron football is very similar to two old English sports: rugby and soccer (also called association football). It started at universities in North America, mostly in the United States, in the late 1800s. On November 6, 1869, students from Princeton
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