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American football is played on a grassy, rectangular field. The field is 120 yards (110 meters) long and 160 feet (49 meters) wide. White lines called end lines and sidelines mark the edges of the field.NZ Football – The Local Name of the Global Game". NZFootball.co.nz. 27 April 2006. Archived from the original on 22 September 2009. The international game is called football and we're part of the international game so the game in New Zealand should be called football

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In 1855, the U.S. inventor Charles Goodyear – who had patented vulcanised rubber – exhibited a spherical football, with an exterior of vulcanised rubber panels, at the Paris Exhibition Universelle. The ball was to prove popular in early forms of football in the U.S. [82] IX. A player shall be entitled to run with the ball towards his adversaries' goal if he makes a fair catch, or catches the ball on the first bound; but in case of a fair catch, if he makes his mark he shall not run. E. Norman Gardiner: "Athletics in the Ancient World", Courier Dover Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-486-42486-3, p.229 a b Douge, Brian (2011). "Football: the common threads between the games". Science and Football (Seconded.). Abingdon: Routledge. pp.3–19. ISBN 978-0-415-50911-4. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 July 2018.

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a b c d e Francis Peabody Magoun, 1929, "Football in Medieval England and Middle-English literature" ( The American Historical Review, v. 35, No. 1). King Henry IV of England also presented one of the earliest documented uses of the English word "football", in 1409, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the levying of money for "foteball". [38] [42]