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Sometime around 1050, Englishmen dug up a skull of a dane and started to kick it around in frustration toward the daneIt became known as "Kicking the dane's head" .The skull began to hurt the boy's feet, so a boy came up with the idea of using an inflated cow bladder to help their feet(Tuttle, 13).

In 1189, King Henry banned the game, because people were too involved in the game to practice archery and fighting for war(Tuttle, 13). During the 1500's the game shifted to Ireland where people invented the Irish rules that made the game tougher. As the game progressed it turned into soccer and rugby(Tuttle, 14).

On November 6, 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first college soccer game(Tuttle, 14). During the spring of 1871 a group of people at Harvard University made a game called the "Boston Game", which was similar to rugby rules(Tuttle, 14).

On May 15, 1874, Harvard played McGill University, which was from Montreal. They played with an egg-shaped ball instead of a round......

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