Why is rugby called football when the ball is carried so much more than kicked?
Wickedone asked:
Seriously. Canadian Football gets made fun of all the time for how little the ball is kicked.
Oh dear. It seems Nick C has nothing but abuse to offer. Why can’t some Yahoo users just refrain from answering a question if they don’t actually know the answer?
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Rugby ISN’T football. It’s rugby. airjarrod
The term foot ball is an old english term that was in general Reference to most ball games played on foot, by poorer people.
Most of the games the aristocracy played were on horse back.
That is why games like Soccer, rugby, rugby league, grid iron, Aussie rules are referred to as foot ball. Anouska N
rugby is called rugby. sometimes people might refer to it as “the footy”. yo
There were a whole series of local games involving kicking a ball spread all throughout Europe (and the rest of the world as well) for as long as people remember. Some allowed participants to carry the ball as well as kick it, some didn’t. All were generically referred to as “football”.
Early in the 19th century various public schools began to codefy their rules so that inter-school matches could be played. One group favoured a kicking-only game, and they formed their own “Association”; hence Association Football or soccer. The most popular game which allowed ball-carrying was developed at a school called “Rugby”; hence Rugby Football. Another variation developed in the United States which was called “American Rugby Football”; later shortened to just “football”.
And there was a lot more kicking in Rugby Football’s early history — at one time the only way to score was to drop-kick the ball through the uprights. Australian Rules and Gaelic Football still work in that fashion. In early Rugby a “try” — grounding the ball over the goal line — only got you a free kick or “try” at the uprights. The rule still survives in a fashion in the conversion points which both Rugby and Gridiron/American-style football still allow after a try or touchdown.
Funny you should mention the CFL — until fairly recently, the league’s official name was the Canadian Rugby Football League, even though it is much more similar to American-style football. blm
In most of the games I watch kicking seems to be the only thing they do. If this keeps going it wont be called rugby or football, just dead! Wozza
There should be an extra button next to the “Report Abuse” button. It should read “Idiot Question” and through enough votes it can be deleted for being retarded! Nick C
RFU- Rugby football union
RFL- Rugby football league.
It’s called rugby. However some countries, (Australia for example), call it footy and they call football ’soccer’.It’s just the way it goes.
It may be because rugby was developed from football so it carried on or the fact that many sports (a long long time ago) that involved kicking a ball were refered to as football as well. Lauren F
Okay the real name is RUGBY FOOTBALL
The original game is said to been played with a really soccerball ( football )
In a highschool called RUGBY
HENCE RUGBY FOOTBALL IS A VERSION OF FOOTBALL PLAYED AT RUGBY HIGHSCHOOL DanDaDuck
Some countries call it football. In NZ its called Rugby! If you see some people from NZ call it football, they must be foreigners. lwar