Quote Originally Posted by BCTrucker View Post
I love the game of Handegg, but never could quite figure how the name Football described it!!!!!
This again goes back to the original use of association football and rugby football, when we (the yanks) started playing our own version of football primarily in the colleges it was created as a hybrid of soccer and rugby. This game actually resembled soccer football more than rugby but with considerably more contact, and some use of handballs. Problem was that each school had its own rules so when they came together to create the rules they were based more on rugby. So then we had American Football and like everything else it was shortened back to be called simply football.