They're erasing our history

...when the less tidy reality is that all of these "footbalL" codes were iterated over long periods of time, with tons of cross-pollination. The games that developed into both Canadian and American football, especially, have continuously borrowed from each other from around 1874 to the present day!

Even the Rutgers-Princeton matchup, which AFAIK used the 1863 FA rules, would have allowed "fair catches"—but didn't otherwise have dedicated goalkeepers, so even "soccer" looked quite different back then. I'd say that any claim to an "invention" of a sport is usually reductive if not apocryphal...

...you COULD run with the ball if you were chased, and scoring was from kicking the ball over a rope suspended over the goal line. It's actually fairly similar to another early game, Winchester Football, for its lack of goal posts. Did the IFA rules have goalkeepers, or just a line? I'd love to know

It's tough to pack all the nuance into a three-minute video, especially since (as far as I can tell) the IFA's 1873 rules aren't available for us to read, so we don't know exactly *how* closely they followed the FA's latest rules—but the Boston game had some other unique traits. For example...

There's popery afoot

what's all this then