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The USA has been on the highest step of the podium multiple times, including at Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012. It's easy to forget the 44-year-old has two Heisman Trophy references on his resume. He was the runner-up for the trophy as Oklahoma's quarterback in 2000.

However, there was no generally accepted set of rules for rugby until 1871, when 21 clubs from London came together to form the Rugby Football Union . The first official RFU rules were adopted in June 1871. They also included the try, where touching the ball over the line allowed an attempt at goal, though drop-goals from marks and general play, and penalty conversions were still the main form of contest. Regardless of any form of football, the first international match between the national team of England and Scotland took place at Raeburn Place on 27 March 1871. Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal.

There was no serious attempt to unify and codify Irish varieties of football, until the establishment of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884. The GAA sought to promote traditional Irish sports, such as hurling and to reject imported games like Rugby and Association football. The first Gaelic football rules were drawn up by Maurice Davin and published in the United Ireland magazine on 7 February 1887.

FOOTBALL, also called association football or soccer, is a game involving two teams of 11 players who try to maneuver the ball into the other team’s goal without using their hands or arms. Football is the world’s most popular ball game in numbers of participants and spectators. This act is usually said to be the beginning of Rugby football, but there is little evidence that it occurred, and most sports historians believe the story to be apocryphal. In 1633, David Wedderburn, a teacher from Aberdeen, mentioned elements of modern football games in a short Latin textbook called Vocabula.

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