American Football Database Explore. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Gridiron football. History Talk 0. Diagram of a Canadian football field Gridiron football or simply football , sometimes known as North American football , [1] is an umbrella term for related codes of football primarily played in the United States and Canada.
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved October 20, Gridiron: on its way to Wembley. London The Guardian , 27 October Gridiron comes to Australia. Oxford English Dictionary. Britannica Almanac Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. Miller Garden City, N. Accessed 29 October From Syracuse University Archives. High school College Sprint Women's Professional. Football ball Helmet Shoulder pads Uniform number. Utility player Triple-threat man Skill position Game manager.
Blocking below the waist Block in the back Chop block Clipping Delay of game Encroachment Equipment violations Face mask False start Helmet-to-helmet collision Horse-collar tackle Illegal contact Illegal formation Illegal forward kick Illegal forward pass Illegal hands to the face Illegal motion Illegal participation Illegal shift Illegal substitution Illegal touching Illegal touching of a free kick Illegal use of hands Ineligible receiver downfield Intentional grounding Holding Leaping Neutral zone infraction Offside Palpably unfair act Pass interference Personal foul Roughing the kicker Roughing the passer Roughing the snapper Sideline infraction Spearing Time count Tripping Unsportsmanlike conduct.
Fumble Interception Muffed punt Turnover on downs. First down Three-and-out Fourth down conversion. These football codes are often played with a yard minimum per down, fewer offensive linemen and a smaller field. Indoor football — played on a yard indoor field with seven or eight players to a side. Each indoor football league typically has its own rulebook.
Anyways, somebody somewhere at some point in time, basically took the letters "soc" from as soc iation and turned it into soccer as sort of a slang term, and I guess it stuck. Meanwhile, American football, along with soccer and rugby, originally evolved from the same sport. Rugby gets its name from a school in England , which is named after a town.
And it seems like proponents of our sport simply never cared to call it anything else other than plain old football, prompting the other sports to differentiate themselves.
In other countries, they specify it as American football, or gridiron football , which can then include the CFL. Well, that's the basic gist of it. I hope you have been paying attention as this will be on your final. Now back to this question:. Why is American football called "football" even though the players play with their hands more than their feet? It seems to be very similar to rugby, and doesn't have the name "American Rugby". What might be the reason for it to be called "Football" even though it is more similar to Rugby?
American football is called football because of its origin. Its like soccer , can be traced back to rugby football where you use your feet to kick a ball at a goal or successfully carry a ball over a goal line. Over time, some rules were changed such as the concept of line of scrimmage and of four downs and a certain distance required to get more downs and, of course, the forward pass. In earlier times, football had virtually no rules. If you wish, you can trace its ancestry back to the 's.
Gridiron is American slang for the now obsolete field markings every five yards in both directions. This "gridiron" pattern made refereeing simpler when different rules existed for passing, kicking, and first downs. Gridiron was a simple one word designation to differentiate American football from the other two versions of the game back in the late 19th century; association football soccer and rugby football. Before forward passing was introduced , 19th century Gridiron or American football rules allowed a punting team to recover its own punt, hence it was an often used tactic to gain ground, as it is today in rugby.
Also drop kick goals were more prevalent and scored relatively more compared to "touchdowns". They were also easier because the ball was shaped with rounded ends similar to current rugby ball.
It is called football because the ball with which it is played is at least one foot long and can't be shorter than one foot. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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