As everyone waits for the game to start, UConn soccer just beat NM in double OT

[Rumrunner]

Going to be a lot of happy students in Gampel.

 

[champs99and04]

The ACC better take note

 

[phillionaire]

"Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep themselves busy while their husbands did the cooking."

Hank Hill

 

[uconNYC]

"Soccer was invented by European ladies to keep themselves busy while their husbands did the cooking."

Hank Hill

Actually that is baseball - known as Rounders. Look it up. Soccer actually evolved from Rugby (which was known as "football").

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Actually that is baseball - known as Rounders. Look it up. Soccer actually evolved from Rugby (which was known as "football").

Rugby came later.

 

[Adios]

Rugby came later.

Nope. Two rugby football clubs played the first game of association football.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Nope. Two rugby football clubs played the first game of association football.

Union football perhaps, association football is what we call soccer.

The game without codification of rules dates back centuries (likely to the middle ages, first written accounts ~800 years ago). Codification by the Football Association (which is why it is referred to as Association Football) occurred in the mid 1800's. Shortly afterward, a football union was called (as they could not refer to it as an association) to codify rules of Rugby Football, which had been around for about a century, where players were allowed to carry the ball.

If you can find a means of demonstrating that early-mid 1700's occurred before the early 1200's you can claim that rugby came first.

 

[UC990411]

I don't care where it came from soccer is a boring sport

 

[Adios]

Union football perhaps, association football is what we call soccer.

The game without codification of rules dates back centuries (likely to the middle ages, first written accounts ~800 years ago). Codification by the Football Association (which is why it is referred to as Association Football) occurred in the mid 1800's. Shortly afterward, a football union was called (as they could not refer to it as an association) to codify rules of Rugby Football, which had been around for about a century, where players were allowed to carry the ball.

If you can find a means of demonstrating that early-mid 1700's occurred before the early 1200's you can claim that rugby came first.

http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/originsofrugby.htm

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/212137/folk-football

"Mob football" best sums up the origins of both games. At least from a European angle. Some claim carrying the ball goes back to ancient Greece. FIFA is claiming China invented soccer when it appears what the Chinese did was play hacky sack with a larger ball.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Perhaps folk and mob football allowed use of hands. Shrovetide Football and Calcio Fiorentino did not (at least in what I've read about them over the past few decades).