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The history of football in North America has played an integral part in both the cultural development of the USA and the more expansive annals of various football games from around the world in which a type of ball is kicked towards a goal or physically taken over a predetermined line.

college game jerseys football PictureThe Rutgers College football team of eighteen-eighty-two, wearing typical uniforms of that time period, would have played using the slightly altered rules from the English game of rugby union which were in force in American football during those years.

Before the turn of the 19th century, when modern forms of football first emerged, the name football was used for a wide assortment of regulations. Even though there are mentions of native Americans playing ball games, modern American football has its beginnings in traditional games played at villages and schools in Europe centuries before America was settled by Europeans. There are many reports of early settlers at Jamestown, Virginia playing games with inflated balls in the early 17th century.

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Similar to many sports, modern football games were made popular in the United States of America by attendees at and from popular colleges, schools and universities. These seem to have had much in common with the ancient "mob football" played in the British Isles, especially on Shrove Tuesday.

Image of college game jerseys footballBy the early nineteenth century, a notoriously violent game called "ballown" was being played at the New Jersey College (subsequently known as Princeton University). In 1827 an attendee of Harvard University wrote a humorous epic poem called The Battle of the Delta, one of the earliest accounts of football in American universities. Around the 1820s too, students at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, were documented as playing a game which involved kicking a spherical ball that became to be called "Old Division Football". Rules were drawn up for this game in 1871.

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