*I* didn't name it.


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>But surely YOU should have thought of another name for YOUR game, as football (or "footie" as we say) has been played in England since Roman times and in China since the Wall was built. Surely the first settlers kicked a ball about (esp. as this was prior to the invention of Rugby), or did one of them say "I have an idea! Now we're in the New World, let's drop that game where one kicketh the ball; let's play a game where we pick it up and fight with each other - and call it football. By the way, what WAS that game we were playing, where one kicketh the ball?"
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>Rugby is short for Rugby football and was invented when some lad at Rugby School picked up the ball and ran with it during a match of footie (so the legend goes)