The First Football Teams/Games/rules
The Roots of Football
The First Organizations
100

Who played in the first football game?

Princeton and the Rutgers

100

What European game did football take the most inspiration from

Rugby

100

What establishments were the first to have organized football teams?

Colleges

200

In the original game of football you could tie without overtime, this was called what?

A block-game

200

Who brought rugby to the Boston area to inspire football?

Irish Immigrants 

200

What was the first ever organized “Football” Club?

The Oneida Football Club

300

What important part of the modern game was illegal till 1906?

Forward passing

300
at what school level were the games organized at originally?

The Student Body Level

300

What president demanded a rule committee (the future NCAA) to be made because of the dangers of football? 

Theodore Roosevelt.

400

Where was the first official football field built?

Harvard

400

The game that would evolve into football was called?

The Boston Game

400

When was the first NFL game played?

1925

500

Who was given the nickname of “The Father of Football”?

Walter Kamp

500

Which country’s rule set to rugby was the most heavily influential when making the game of football?

Canada 

500

What was the first ever city to sponsor a NFL team?

Chicago

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