Birth of American Football. The Ivy League sets the rules

American Football wasn't always pretty like todays version, back then, Football was Ugly!!         Football, ahh the great sport of football!! A sport which huddles many American families around the television on quiet Sunday afternoons. Sure it's a violent game but many take a strong attraction to its machoness and toughness. The players are mean, the coaches are insane, and the fans are wild!!         About 125 years ago the coaches were still insane and the fans were …showed first 75 words of 695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 695 total…a sissy you were only trying to be safe.         Today the game of football is lot more civilized than the game it was 125 years ago. Football players of today have more than just toughness and machoness on their minds. They include money into the sport. When the Ivy league schools played 125 years ago, money wasn't on their minds. Only the toughness in their bodies and their true devotion to the school ignited them to play.