American football has its historical roots in the latter part of the 19th century as a merge of rugby and soccer played at American colleges. The very first official game occurred in 1869 between ...

A retired Football, emptied of its top-secret inner contents, is currently on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. “We were looking for something that would ...

Such were the golden years for the members of the Oneida Football Club, which made an important contribution to American sports history—or, as others have suggested, perpetrated a myth-making hoax. A ...

Sportswriter and football historian John Eisenberg joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about American Football ... Actually, the origin of the name goes back way before that.

In the fourth quarter of the Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines game (which had a few NFL draft prospects that should interest the Cleveland Browns) on the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day ...

USA Football has officially been named the National Governing Body (NGB) for American football by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), marking a historic milestone as the sport prepares ...