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August 8, 1932. American football was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. On the evening of August 8, 1932, seniors from three Western universities (Cal, Stanford, and USC) were matched against those from the East Coast's "Big Three" (Harvard, Yale, and Princeton). [1] In front of 60,000 spectators at the Los ...
Theobald I, Count of Blois. Theobald I (before 913 – 16 January 975, 976 or 977), [1] called the Trickster (known as le Tricheur – meaning “cheater”– in French), was Count of Blois, Tours, Chartres and Châteaudun, as well as Lord of Vierzon and Provins. He was a loyal and potent vassal of Hugh the Great, duke of the Franks.
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
Other codes of football share a common history with American football. Canadian football is a form of the game that evolved parallel to American football, through its adoption of the Burnside rules in 1903. While both games share a common history and basic structure, there are some important differences between the two. [237]
A play diagram depicting a version of a flea flicker type play from an I-formation, fullback offset weakside. A flea flicker is an unorthodox play, often called a " trick play ", in American football which is designed to fool the defensive team into thinking that a play is a run instead of a pass. [ 1 ]
One-platoon system. Members of the 1935 New Hampshire Wildcats football team, whose positions were listed in their college yearbook simply as backs (four, standing) and linemen (seven, kneeling). The one-platoon system, also known as " iron man football ", is a rule-driven substitution pattern in American football whereby the same players were ...
Fumblerooski. In American football, the fumblerooski is a trick play in which the football is intentionally and stealthily placed on the ground (fumbled) by an offensive player, usually the quarterback. The offensive team then attempts to distract and confuse the defense by pretending that a ball carrier is running in one direction while ...
The First Game is a painting by Arnold Friberg, and was commissioned in 1968 by Chevrolet Motor Division as one of four paintings to commemorate the then-upcoming centennial celebration of college football in the United States. [2] It depicts the famous first game of American intercollegiate football, played by Rutgers College (now Rutgers ...