Origin Of Football

Accordiner to Stewart Culin, the curator of the Musnemof Arcbaaology of the University of Pennsylvania, football originated witfa those beginners of oterything, the Chinese. Mr. Culin has a curious aiicl auciciit drawing showing a personage in the diese of a prime minister playing football witli a tuge, or noble, and two of their ohamberlains. The time is somewhere in the tenth or eleventh century, bnt long boforo tl), u the game was onltivati d aa au exerciao raitable for the training of soldiers. About the eigl:th century it was mtroduced into Japan, where it became vary popular. Froni these two oonntri spread the entiro world.