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From this point onwards the two versions of football were distinguished by reference to their longer titles, Rugby Football and Association Football (named after the Football Association), Szymanski writes. The rugby football game was shortened to rugger, while the association football game was, plausibly, shortened to soccer. Both sports fragmented yet again as they spread around the world. The colloquialism soccer caught on in the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century, in part to distinguish the game from American football, a hybrid of Association Football and Rugby Football. (Countries that tend to use the word soccer nowadays—Australia, for example—usually have another sport called football.).
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:34:47 +0000

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