The History of Football

By grace.pierce

  • football cleats

    It was made of thick hard leather going up the ankle, and had six leather studs in the sole.

  • football itself

    Walter Camp invented football. He got the idea from William Ebb Elis who was playing a game of soccer when he picked up yhe ball and started running with it.

  • Leather Helmets

    Leather Helmets
    The football helmets are leather and has no pading and the team logo isnt on the helmets then like they are now.

  • padding

    padding
    the helmets are rare, there were records of helmets

  • longest field goal

    the field goal distance record has been broken only three times. It was established rather amblguously in the early days

  • instant replay

    It wasn't on tv yet. If a conversational play took place, it would have to be noted in the game later rather than right away.

  • scorebords

    scorebords
    a large blackbord so the score were written in chalk or a peg bord with numbers printed on cards to hand on the pegs

  • fantasy football

    Wilfred Winkenbach made fantasy football, Bill and Scott joined him in fantasy football and ended up creating an eat team league, the ''Gopppl''

  • astroturf

    astroturf
    <a href='http://inventors.about.com/astartinventions synthetic turf called chemgrass, it was the first large - scale instalation

  • football rules

    Officials will be kept together as a single crew during the playoffs. This is a change from past seasons when ''all-star'' officiating crews worked the post season.