hear on the field when the quarterback yells for the snap. If you are an on

looking fan from the stands you are hoping to here... " Touchdown!" In

the fall, football is the sport to watch, whether it's pee wee or if it's NFL,

Football is a sport that is thought to be first played by the Greeks.

Though, in their time it was called harpaston. The idea was pretty much

the same. You want to get the ball over the goal line by either running it,

kicking it or passing it, and that's exactly what you do in football now.

The only major difference would have to be the style of defense. Now

tackling people has limits on the ways you can tackle...there's no tackle

after the play, you have to have intent...and so on, but back in the time of

the Greeks their tackling the considered to ferocious.

Though the Greeks may have been the first to play the sport, the

Europeans were the first to have the most modern style we play today. In

the twelveth century the game was popular that various English monarchs,

including Edward II and Henry VI, forbade the game because

player in motion in the backfield before the snap of the ball. In 1906 Pop

twenty-five players at a time. By 1873 the number was reduced to twenty

today as they were hundred's of years ago.

in what was called the Notre Dame Shift, the backs would shift out of the

Rockne set up the backs in a four-square, box alignment on one side. Then,

at the college level on November 6, 1869. The first two teams were from

double-wing formations at the University of Illinois, often sending four or

The first professional football game was played in 1895, and from

players, and by 1876 it was further reduced to fifteen players. In 1880

the quarterback position and the system of downs.

box and into a single or double wing. The strategies of these four mean

Amos Alonzo Stagg invented the play known as the T-formation. It

and two on the other side, while shifting the backfield into a wing

league of professional football teams was the American Professional

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