Football didn’t really begin to take on any consistency of rules and boundaries until it was picked up as a sport in the seven major public schools of England in the early 1800’s. Six of the seven schools were largely playing the same game (including Eton, Harrow and Winchester) while the seventh, Rugby School (founded in 1567) was playing a markedly different version of football. The birth date of football in the United States is generally regarded by football historians as November 6, 1869, when teams from Rutgers and Princeton Universities met for the first intercollegiate football game. In those early games, there were 20 players to a team and he University of Memphis' official school colors of Blue and Gray were selected in the early
1900s. The colors were chosen in an …show more content…
The Pasadena Bowl matched the California Junior
College football champions against the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA)
. Association football, the modern game, also has documented early involvement of women. In
Europe, it is possible that 12th-century French women played football as part of that era's folk games. An annual competition in Mid-Lothian, Scotland during the 1790s is reported, too. In 1863, football governing bodies introduced standardized rules to prohibit violence on the pitch, making it more socially acceptable for women to play. The ball is spherical with a circumference of between 68 and 70 centimeters (27 and 28 in), a weight in the range of 410 to
450 grams (14 to 16 oz), and a pressure of between 0.6 and 1.1 bars (8.5 and 15.6 psi) at sea level. In the past the ball was made up of leather panels sewn together, with a latex bladder for pressurization, but modern balls at all levels of the game are now synthetic.
A standard adult football match consists of two periods of 45 minutes each, known as halves.
Each half runs continuously, meaning that the clock is not stopped when the ball is out of