The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as Association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved primarily with the feet, and where handling is strictly limited
There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word football It is widely assumed that the word football or the phrase football refers to the action of the foot kicking a ball. There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games
The Chinese competitive game resembles modern association football soccer descriptions appear in a military manual dated to the second and third centuries BC It existed during the Han dynasty and possibly the Qin dynasty, in the second and third centuries BC. The Japanese version of and was developed during the Asoka period. This is known to have been played within the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto from about 600 AD.people stand in a circle and kick a ball to each other, trying not to let the ball drop to the ground much like
There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games, played by indigenous peoples in different parts of the world. For example, in 1586, men from a ship commanded by an English explorer named John Davis, went ashore to play a form of football with Inuit people in Greenland.[28] There are later accounts of an Inuit game played on ice, Each match began with two teams facing each other in parallel lines, before attempting to kick the ball through each other team's line and then at a goal. In 1610, William Strachery, a colonist at Jamestown, Virginia recorded a game played by Native Americans, a game similar to modern-day association football played amongst Amerindians, was also reported as early as the 17th century.
Games played in Mesoamerica with rubber balls by indigenous peoples are also well-documented as existing since before this time, but these had more similarities to basketball or volleyball, and no links have been found between such games and modern football sports. Northeastern American Indians, especially the Iroquois Confederation, played a game which made use of net racquets to throw and catch a small ball; however, although it is a ball-goal foot game, lacrosse (as its modern descendant is called) is likewise not usually classed as a form of football
On the Australian continent several tribes of indigenous people played kicking and catching games with stuffed balls which have been generalized by historians as for game ball The earliest historical account is an anecdote from the 1878 book by Robert The Aborigines of Victoria, in which a man called Richard Thomas is quoted as saying, in about 1841 in Victoria, Australia, that he had witnessed Aboriginal people playing the game: Mr Thomas describes how the foremost player will dropkick a ball made from the skin of a possum and how other players leap into the air in order to catch it. Some historians have theorized that MarnGrook was one of the origins of Australian rules football.
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