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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
Nope, sorry. I can go into more detail if you'd like, but the short story is that the only thing those games have in common is that they derive from England and/or Wales and are called "football".
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I'd like! I really thought I'd read at some point, though, that the beginnings of what we call "football" were made at the Rugby School, who played the game with much more contact than some other places. When the other schools changed the rules to outlaw such contact, the Rugby folks wrote their own. I believe I read this on Wikipedia (which is, admittedly, not an authoritative source) - at the least, it makes for a good story.[/quote]
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And if they wanted to express things in meters, why didn't they make it 9 m, which is much closer to 10 yds.?
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I would have to say that such a move would be about as antithetical to the metric system as it gets.
