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The history of American football is extremely important in both the history of the United States and the more extensive annals of different football games all over the world in which some kind of ball is kicked at a target (goal) or physically carried over a marked line.
The Rutgers College football team of 1882, proudly wearing typical uniforms of that time period, will have observed the slightly altered rules of rugby union which were used in American football during those years.
Prior to the turn of the 19th century, during the development of modern forms of football, the name football was used for a huge variety of rules. Although there are mentions of native Americans playing ball games, the game we know today has its roots in traditional ball games played around the countryside and at schools in Europe for many centuries before Europeans came and settled in America. There are documented incidents of Jamestown's early settlers using inflated balls for games around the early sixteen hundreds.
Similar to many sports, contemporary football games were made very popular in the United States of America by attendees at and from well-known colleges, schools and universities. These seem to have great commonality with the traditional "mob football" which was played in England, especially on the ancient holiday of Shrove Tuesday.
By the early nineteenth century, a notoriously violent game which was named "ballown" was being played at the New Jersey College (now known as Princeton University). During eighteen-twenty-seven an attendee of Harvard University composed an epic humorous poem called The Battle of the Delta, one of the earliest tomes on American university football. Also in the eighteen-twenties, Dartmouth College attendees, in Hanover, New Hampshire, were documented as playing a kicking game that would be known as "Old Division Football". The players published rules for this game in 1871.
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