history-of-football Stories - Team Speed Kills
What Football Was Like in 1893
If you have never heard of the Internet Archive (archive.org), that's a shame. It's a storehouse of all kinds of interesting and wonderful things. I recently was searching through it and found a digitized copy of the book A Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and...
Football Explained: The Game of Foot Ball
This is meant as a primer on the history of football. A more comprehensive look can be found here, but because the intent of this series is to welcome and not intimidate, this is a considerably simpler, less in-depth look at the origins of football. Hurling or Criapan Rugby derived from an 18th...
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