Football Was Born - By: Helen Greens

Rugby stemmed from the United Kingdom, and rugby football was its original name, which was short for rugby. For its shape liked an olive, we called it "football" in China. Rugby was actually a city in the central England. The rugby school was the birthplace of rugby football. A stone tablet stood in the school, which read" In memory of W. W. Ellis's brave action ". It is said that one of its student, Ellis, once in a football match, held the ball to run as a fault under an emergency in 1823. This made the other players to follow. Although this was a foul, it provided people with a new revelation. Football drew the interests of sports enthusiasts around the world in Britain and the commonwealth areas. As time passed, it was gradually recognized by others. So, a new sport with great importance of exercise and with the advantages in your body's comprehensive development, derived from the football.
After 1839; rugby developed at Cambridge University little by little and opened the rugby football club in succession. The interschool competitions also got active. UK set up the Football Association in 1871, soon this sport spread quickly to European countries, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In 1886, the International Football Federation was established. In 1906, the International Football competition was held in France.
When the British football transmitted to other countries, it changed constantly. Many countries even created their own forms of rugby, such as the United States, Canada and Australia. However, there existed many differences, such as the venue, equipment, rules, clothing, participate numbers and the size of the ball, also the play methods. It could be, roughly, sorted into two kinds; British Football (also called soft football) and American football (also called the hard football). They gained amusing nicknames on account of the various styles and play methods. British Football was called "A gentleman plays the savage sport".
The Football players didn't costume guards. They really used the clothes of football players, so, it was called the hard football. American football was vaguely lesser than rugby, so it was effortless to pass the ball.
Needing the team spirit of tenaciously strives to succeed, rugby was helpful to military training, and especially in physical stamina guidance. So this sport was also very popular in the army, and was strongly promoted. For this reason, rugby won the "ball of army" reputation in western countries. In China; we also have good rugby teams in special universities.
Rugby has been criticized as an exercise of violence. Because when you compare rugby with some sports, such as basketball, soccer and other popular sports in United States, many violent collisions would be actually happen. Instead of the prohibited grapping-rugby style, to play the ball with both hands is a better choice in the campuses of American. Most PE classes all use the type of hands-touch. But after school, they can play the grapping method under the circumstances of equipment and guidance. In addition, the intense body collision and high risk would put pressure on women, so it is unable to attract women. Women always have high risk in competitions because of the insufficiency of muscles and weights. It provides the strong and quick players with more opportunities while grip and intercept the ball. What we have discussed above has already caused controversy, so in the past few decades, rugby and dodge ball, wresting, hockey and boxing has been listed as violence.

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