How Football Was Invented

American football was first introduced to North america in 1874 by the great harvard university as an improved version of rugby that was shown to america by the british army 1868. It then evolved over the next 3 decades because of the lack of pads and protections that had an enormous toll it had on the players. And football still remains quite brutal that Theodore Roosevelt threatened to close it down in the 1980's if the rules were not carried out more safely.  

Harvard university came to this fascinating invention because of a desire of a new game on the Havard campus.

The first couple of games were played between Harvard university and McGill. Even though they are the founding Universities they are not recognised as the founders by the football audience because of the rules they played with. For example it did not allow forward passes and there was no line of scrimmage. The modern rules we play with today were mostly developed during the 1880's and the 1990's. These rules were adopted after Roosevelt threatened to close it down. Which would be hard to imagine football without these rules today.