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Essay on College Football versus Professional Football
Foot ball is the most popular game in the United States which is played from inter school to college to international level with great passion, and every one pays it the interest and attention according to his age level. In my point of view the football played at the college level is the best. I have some reasons for this, which are explained as under. This includes the participation level, prize money, rivalries and most important passion.
College football was the venue through which American football first gained popularity in the United States. College football remains extremely popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport. The development of the American game can be traced to a meeting between the Harvard University and McGill University football teams in 1874. The two teams were used to playing different brands of football — the McGill team played a rugby-style game, while Harvard played a soccer-style game. The teams agreed to play under compromise rules, and from this meeting the game of football began to evolve in both the United States and Canada.
The game increased in popularity through the remainder of the 19th century. It also became increasingly violent. President Theodore Roosevelt threatened, in 1906, to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The response to this was the formation of what became the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which set rules governing the sport. One of the rules changes to emerge from this attempt at alleviating the violence of the sport was the introduction of the forward pass. Another was the banning of "mass momentum" plays, many of which, like the infamous "flying wedge", were sometimes literally deadly.
Prior to the founding of the National Football League and for a few decades thereafter, college football was the predominant venue for American football....
