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It's just silly, trying to change a few rules and calling the game your own-12 players, 3 downs those ridiculously HUGE Endzones

At least try to get your facts straight before you stir the pot:
Football was introduced to North America in Canada by the British Army garrison in Montreal, which played a series of games with McGill University.[1] In 1874, USA's Harvard hosted Canada's McGill University to play the new game derived from Rugby football in a home and home series. Many of the similarities and differences between the Canadian and American games indeed came out of this original home and home series where each home team set the rules. For instance, Harvard, because of a lack of campus space did not have a full-sized rugby pitch. Their pitch was only 100 yards long by 50 yards wide with undersized endzones (slightly less than the 53⅓-yard width of the current regulation size for American Football). Because of the reduced field, the Harvard team opted for 11 players per side, four less than the regulation 15 of Rugby Union. To generate more offence, the number of downs was also increased by Harvard to 4 from 3 as set by McGill.
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That was one hell of an entertaining game. The worst part about the penalty is that it let the Montreal kicker off the hook for what would've been one of the greatest choke jobs of all time...