Uncovering the FIRST Football Games in America - (History of Rugby in America - part 1)

Описание: I hope this video brings in an equal amount of rugby and American football fans. For you gridiron fans, I hope you stay and learn more about the precursor to our game, rugby football. Don't try to push your feelings away. Just accept them and start following rugby. Your life will change.

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I use a metric crap-ton of sources and list some of them below:

No Christian End! The Beginnings of Football in America:
http://www.profootballresearchers.com/arti...
Old Division Football The Indigenous Mob Soccer Of Dartmouth College by SCOTT MEACHAM
https://www.dartmo.com/football/Football_M...
Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season
The Boston Game: Michael T. Geary, J.D.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cmcT88...
https://books.google.com/books?id=kxuEYG6W...
Football - McGill University
https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/mua...
Football in America: A Study in Culture Diffusion by David Riesman, Reuel Denney from American Quarterly, Volume 3, Issue 4 (Winter 1951), 309-325
http://jvlone.com/sportsdocs/reisman1951.pdf
1869 College Football Season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869_college...
First Football Game - Scarletknights.com (archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153050...
Princeton - Penn 1876
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47727959/p...
Waukesha: Birthplace of U.S. soccer?
https://www.wisconsinsoccercentral.com/new...

The Boston Game:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_game

I can send my person notes or slides on request

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