- A16th century
- B17th century
- C18th century
- D19th century
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Traditional ball games were codified at English public schools during the 19th century.
Usually, there are between 11 and 18 players on each team in football.
In most codes of football, there are rules restricting the movement of players offside.
Goals or points can result from players putting the ball between two goalposts.
The various codes of football can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union, and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as Association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved primarily with the feet, and where handling is strictly limited.
Basketball is not a form of football. The various forms of football include Association football, gridiron football, Australian rules football, rugby union, rugby league, and Gaelic football.
Option B is the correct answer. William Strachey recorded a game played by Native Americans called Pahsaheman in 1610.
Eton College codified the first known set of rules for football in 1815, and Aldenham School followed in 1825.
The Vulgaria is a Latin textbook written by William Herman, who had been headmaster at Eton and Winchester colleges. It includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde", which provides the earliest evidence of games resembling football being played at English public schools.
FIFA was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.