On 18/07/2014 20:05, Alain wrote:
> Same thing for the Canadian football where the feild is narower, longer
> by 10 yards and you have 3 plays instead of 4 to advance at least 10 yards.
>

Waa! Too much information for my tiny mind. ;-)

> Because the ball is put into play with a kick and there are 2 or 3 other
> plays that demand a kick: Placement and conversion kicks and another
> one, rarely used, that I don't remember the name. Apart from that, the
> term "football" is a gross missnomer.
> Maybe, also, because the term "handball" is already used for another
> game and they did not want to call it "American rugby" or Canadian
> rugby"...

I can understand them not wanting to call it handball. That is a foul in 
football.

Maybe they could have taken a trick from Australia and called it Yankie 
Rules

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Regards
     Stephen

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