The first soccer club formed anywhere outside of England was the Oneida Football Club, Boston USA. The rules were further standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools, college and universities, known as the Cambridge Rules. In the USA, football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown. In North America, native American Indians in the original Jamestown settlement played a game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning 'they gather to play ball with the foot.' It was a rough game, played the beach, the field a half-mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, with as many as 1000 players at a time.Д®ton College of England established a set of rules for the games. One legend tells of two villages playing against each other with goals 10 miles apart. In Alaska and Canada the native Eskimos played a game called aqsaqtuk on ice, using balls stuffed with grass, caribou hair, and moss. Queen Elizabeth I of England, enacted laws that could sentence a football player to jail for a week followed by penance in a church. In 1580, Giovanni Bardi published a set of rules of the game of calcio. The game involved kicking, carrying or passing a ball across a goal line. In Italy they played a game called ' calcio' with teams of 27+ people. King James I of Scotland also passed a law banning the game This led King Edward III of England to pass laws in 1331 to stop the game These games were violent, where injury and death were not uncommonДespite the violence of these celebratory games, they were still popular. The first Football games played in Britain was between the locals of east of England, starting after a 'legendary' game that involved kicking around the severed head of a Danish prince that they had defeated in a war. In the middle of each wall, was a mounted stone or wooden ring and the object was to project the hard rubber ball through the ring. In Mexico & Central America the rubber ball was created, and used in a game on a recessed court 40-50 feet long shaped like a capital 'I'. There is a definite date of such a game occurring in 611 A.D. Teams would change the ball often until one of the team was forced behind the line at their end.Д¬hina's Tsu Chu players and Japan's Kemari players were the first to have an 'International' game of their versions of soccer, believed to have occurred roughly 50 B.C. There was a white line between the teams and another white line behind each team. In ancient Greece, they played a game called Episkyros, in which two equal numbered teams would try to throw the ball over the heads of the other team. There was also a field designated by four trees (cherry, maple, pine and willow). The Japanese version of 'soccer' was called Kemari, a game much like modern hacky sack, played with two to twelve players, and played a larger ball stuffed with sawdust. There was possibly a version of a type of ball game played by young women in Egypt during the age of Baqet III, as images of this sport were depicted on his tomb, though there is not much known of this sport except that it was played with a ball. Like Soccer, no hands were permitted during the play of the game. There is evidence in China that military forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC (Han Dynasty) played a game, originally named 'Tsu Chu', that involved kicking a leather ball stuffed with fur into a small hole.

History of football