How did a sport codified in England end up with a nickname that divides the Anglophone world? The surprising history of ...

The two most fabled decades in English popular culture are, almost without question, the 1960s and the 1990s. Those periods represented peaks for the nation’s two major obsessions: music and football.

The 100 best football players who have ever lived: from Messi to Maradona, Cristiano to Cruyff and everyone in between ...

The history of college football abroad goes back further than many realize. International games are almost as old as the sport itself. The first was a two-game series in 1874 between Harvard and ...

On college campuses during the 19th century, sporting events were becoming increasingly frequent. Most were student-led affairs with few rules. Violence was common. As one Yale student wrote in a poem ...