Scrimmage

This is #11 in a series covering football’s original 61 rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Football Association in 1876. We review one rule each Friday. Scrimmage arose in the 15th century as a variation of skirmish or a short fight. That sense of scrimmage appeared in American newspapers by 1828, seeing far greater use than — www.footballarchaeology.com

Timothy P Brown researched the IFA rule of 1876 on scrimmage and how it made way for the modern game of American Football
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