article on hockey and football
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- Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to put the ball into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.
- Games played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures. In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from approximately 600 BC in Ancient Greece.
- Most evidence of hockey-like games during the Middle Ages is found in legislation concerning sports and games. The Galway Statute enacted in Ireland in 1527 banned certain types of ball games, including games using "hooked" (written "hockie", similar to "hooky") sticks.
- There are many types of hockey played like ice hockey, field hockey, roller hockey etc
- Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.
- The word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears.
- Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games.
- Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- The expanse of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire, though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing:
- Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage.
- In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football competitions. During the twentieth century, several of the various kinds of football became popular.
- Today this game has millions of followers.