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The Evolution of Football

How the Super Bowl Came to Be

Soccer + Rugby = The Boston Game

Before the Super Bowl was declared as the national championship game of NFL, it was called the "NFL Championship." People wanted get a new name for this championship game. On one particular occasion, a man named Lamar Hunt had bought his daughter Sharon a ball. Sharon liked this ball, and therefore called it a "super ball." Lamar Hunt thought this was a great name for the championship, and introduced it to the officials. The officials liked it, and the first Super Bowl played was at the Los Angeles Colloseum, when the Green

As you can probably can probably guess, the Boston Game is what is now modernized football. A group of Harvard schoolboys decided to create a new. They took the kicking elements of soccer and running aspects of rugby and created the "Boston Game." As these boys grew up, they took the game with them. They first introduced the game to McGill University in Montreal, Canada. There, the two schools played two games, one with Harvard's rules and another with McGill's rugby rules. Harvard crushed McGill in the game played by Harvard's rules, but to both schools' surprise, Harvard held McGill to a scoreless tie in the second game of rugby. Then, McGill adopted the Boston Game, and then Harvard challenged fellow rival school Yale. After Harvard trounced Yale, Yale fell in love with the game themselves and began play it. Soon the sport became famous across the United States, and on November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college football game.

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The Greatest Trick Play in Football History

Now, one of the greatest trick plays in football history occurred during a Harvard vs. Carlisle game 1911. What happened was that the Indians had two returners during a kickoff, and what they did was the Carlisle quarterback, Jimmie Johnson, stuffed the ball in another player named Charlie Dillon's jersey, who ran for a touchdown. This wasn't fair for Harvard, and this greatest trick play was later outlawed.

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