hello today i want to talk a little bit about the history of american football: The history of the emergence of American football is inextricably linked with the development of football and rugby. As the legend says, in 1823 at a Rugby school, during a football match, sixteen-year-old William Webb Ellis (eng. William Webb Ellis) grabbed the ball and ran toward the rivals. It should be understood that here football means one of the many variants of the game, the rules of which were determined by each school on its own and were not something well-established. Despite the fact that the fact was not reliably established, many years later Ellis was erected a monument, and a sign was hung on the walls of his college.The game was called “rugby football” (football is ruled by Rugby school rules), today in most countries it is usually simple - rugby. On November 6, 1869, in the American city of New Brunswick (New Jersey), teams of Rutgers and Princeton universities met on the football field...