Origin_Of_Soccer_In_The_US

Origin Of Soccer In The US When Did Soccer Originate in the United States' Until the origin of Rugby early in the 19th century and of American football some 30 years later, all football games were forms of soccer. Although Great Britain may well buy claim to being the birthplace to this sport, historians have noted that games closely resembling it were played in many other countries. One form was familiar in ancient Greece and Rome. Another type of soccer was played at about the same time in China, where it was called Tsu Ch’iu. When soccer first started in the United States, it was played primarily by school boys and college teams, and was largely an upper-class game. Historians agree that a form of soccer was played in Virginia as early as 1609. By 1800, the sport was organized and played on many college campuses in the east. Colleges such as Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Brown had soccer teams. The first written account of football in the U.S. centered on contests in the major colleges and universities of the Northeast. The freshman and sophomore classes at Harvard had instituted an annual intramural football contest in 1827, soccer, played, football, first, boston, united, teams, states, sport, school, rutgers, princeton, new, games, game, club, yale, time, rules, resembling, pick-up, historians, harvard, form, english, early, columbia, colleges, college, york, years, year, written, won, virginia