Anniversaries and Commemorations

Mar 10, 2025 ... Indeed, the earliest form of football is understood to be 'cuju' which was played in China during the Han dynasty from 206 BC to 220 AD. 'Cuju' ... Jun 3, 2014 ... For two years, 1922 and 1923, the National Football League had also featured the Oorang Indians, an all-Native American team based in Larue, ... Aug 10, 2013 ... It was the Scots who truly devised the game as we know it. Without their civilising intervention, what England might have given the world was just another ... Jun 15, 2017 ... 21, 1891, Ontario's Naismith was working at the School for Christian Workers in Springfield, Mass. His boss asked him to invent an indoor game ... England is typically credited for inventing the modernized version of football/soccer, beginning in the 12th century. Early forms of the game were rougher and ... The franchise was established in Chicago as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898 and joined the NFL as a charter team in 1920 as the Chicago Cardinals. While based ... Oct 16, 2024 ... But as Mizzou's origin story spread, so did competing claims. From ... was printed on the cover of a football program in 1947. Northern ... Feb 16, 2023 ... Rugby football was played at Rugby School in Warwickshire from probably the 18th century, maybe earlier. Basically it was the form of football ... History was made on Saturday, December 3, 2005, by the Livingston Academy football team with their big win over David Lipscomb in the state championship ... Jul 6, 2018 ... By 1968, it was used for the entire football team. Over the years, the birth of the Mean Green moniker has been mistakenly linked to one of ...