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Post by Squeekster on Jul 3, 2010 17:39:12 GMT
Having played all both Rugby at High School, and "American" Football at University, would you like me to explain the similarities, the key differences, and the way in which the latter can clearly be seen to have evolved from the former. It really should also be pointed out that the governing body of Rugby formed in 1870 is called the RFU ... Rugby FOOTBALL Union I was speaking about English football mate and how the game of Rugby came about i was not comparing Rugby to American football.
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Post by PotterLog on Jul 3, 2010 18:22:19 GMT
Having played all both Rugby at High School, and "American" Football at University, would you like me to explain the similarities, the key differences, and the way in which the latter can clearly be seen to have evolved from the former. It really should also be pointed out that the governing body of Rugby formed in 1870 is called the RFU ... Rugby FOOTBALL Union I was speaking about English football mate and how the game of Rugby came about i was not comparing Rugby to American football. But rugby and football come from the same root. Not sure what your point is.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jul 4, 2010 6:58:25 GMT
In 1976 I was in New York on HMS London for the Bi-centenial fleet review. A few of us on a run ashore ended up in a bar in down town New York talking to some "locals". One of them said how he loved English humour and asked my mate Mick to say something funny. Mick, piss-taker extraordinaire, pissed as a fart and never one to shirk his responsibility as a joker, replied "Pearl Harbour"....then the fight started.
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Post by wigginbird on Jul 4, 2010 9:39:43 GMT
I was speaking about English football mate and how the game of Rugby came about i was not comparing Rugby to American football. Both "Association" Football and "Rugby" Football evolved at Public schools in Victorian England, from the same source and the closest game still played to this day to the game they both evolved from is "Shrovetide" football played in Ashbourne en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shrovetide_Football . Games like "shrovetide" football were played on smaller scales at these schools, but due to the injuries involved in such melees the players and teachers started evolving the game to something closer to what we would know as football in the early C19th Read this, you'll see why they are called football www.talkfootball.co.uk/guides/history_of_football.htmlAs for the size claim, I'll say this, the term "football" is clearly over 700 years old, given that in 1314 the Lord mayor of London complained "there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large footballs in the fields of the public. " So that's about 500 years before the development of the oval ball used in Rugby and American Football, which is by pure coincidence usually 11-12 inches in length ;D
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