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Re: Football numbering Re: UK 2000?
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lugnet.promo, lugnet.town
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Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:19:20 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Sanjay D'Souza writes:
> From what I hear American Football is a derivative of Rugby. Seems strange
> to call it American Football as the ball's hardly kicked. Then again
> American Football also known as Gridion but I hardly ever hear it mentioned
> as such. (1)
Well the full name of Rugby is Rugby Football, this is different from
Association Football - which we shortened to soccer but then got rid of that
stupid word and so had football and rugby.
Carbon 60
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 | | Re: Football numbering Re: UK 2000?
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| N. Hoogerbrug <ringebu@knoware.nl> wrote in message news:38347F42.1B3589...ware.nl... (...) Read (URL) German. But it aint clear why the hack Americans call a rugby like and related (...) From what I hear American Football is a derivative of Rugby. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.town)
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