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football 
n. a distinctive Canadian variety of football developed in the late nineteenth century from English rugby or rugger. See also football. - Rugby football, often rugby at the popular level, has, except among some older Canadians, gradually been displaced since the 1930's by the characteristically American term football, the Canadianism being confined largely to official league titles.
See also: rugby-football
- 1896 "But what I'm thinking about is his refusal to play foot-ball last fall. He's quick, and sharp, and tough; just the man the team wanted for quarter back. . . ."
- 1958 Calgary Stampeders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union Monday night announced the signing to [sic] two imports. . .
- 1896 "But what I'm thinking about is his refusal to play foot-ball last fall. He's quick, and sharp, and tough; just the man the team wanted for quarter back. . . ."