[Ads-l] Antedating of "American Football"

[Shapiro, Fred]

American football (OED 1879)

1876 New York Times 19 Nov. 5/4 (Newspapers.com)  A foot-ball convention will be held at Springfield, Mass. ... for the purpose of drawing up a set of rules to be known as the American Foot-ball Rules.

1877 New York Herald 19 Dec. 6/5 (Newspapers.com)  English Versus American Football.

Fred Shapiro



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