Football-Book

Football

By Neil Pachani
Period 2

Table of Contents 2
3
Glossary 4
Descriptive Text 5
Picture of Descriptive Text 6
Sequence Text 7
Picture of Sequence Text 8
Compare and Contrast 9
Picture of Compare and Contrast 10
Cause and Effect 11
Picture of Cause and Effect 12
Problem and Solution 13
Picture of Problem and Solution
All about the Author

Glossary

Also
Both
Difference
Lastly
Similarities

2

Descriptive

Protective equipment in gridiron football ("football
gear") consists of equipment worn by football players
for the protection of the body during the course of a
football game. Basic equipment worn by most football
players include helmet, shoulder pads, gloves, shoes,
and thigh and knee pads, and a jockstrap or
compression shorts with or without a protective cup.
Neck rolls, elbow pads, mouth guards, hip pads,
tailbone pads, rib pads, and other equipment may be
worn in addition to the aforementioned basics.
Football protective equipment is made of synthetic
materials: foam rubbers, elastics, and durable,
shock-resistant, molded plastic. Football protective
equipment has remained consistent in use for
decades with some slight modifications made over the
years in design and materials. The assignment and
maintenance of football gear belongs to the team
equipment manager.

3

Picture of Descriptive Text

4

Sequence

The contemporary history of the world's favourite
game spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863
in England, when rugby football and association
football branched off on their different courses and
the Football Association in England was formed -
becoming the sport's first governing body. Both
codes stemmed from a common root and both have a
long and intricately branched ancestral tree. A search
down the centuries reveals at least half a dozen
different games, varying to different degrees, and to
which the historical development of football has been
traced back. Whether this can be justified in some
instances is disputable. Nevertheless, the fact
remains that people have enjoyed kicking a ball about
for thousands of years or so and there is absolutely
no reason to consider it an aberration of the more
'natural' form of playing a ball with the hands. On the
contrary, apart from the need to employ the legs and
feet in tough tussles for the ball, often without any
laws for protection, it was recognised right at the
outset that the art of controlling the ball with the feet
was not easy and, as such, required no small measure
of skill. The very earliest form of the game for which
there is scientific evidence was an exercise from a

military manual dating back to the second and third
centuries BC in China. This Han Dynasty forebear of
football was called Tsu' Chu and it consisted of
kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair
through an opening, measuring only 30-40cm in width,
into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes.
According to one variation of this exercise, the player
was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but
had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders while
trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use
of the hands was not permitted. Another form of the
game, also originating from the Far East, was the
Japanese Kemari, which began some 500-600 years
later and is still played today. This is a sport lacking
the competitive element of Tsu' Chu with no struggle
for possession involved. Standing in a circle, the
players had to pass the ball to each other, in a
relatively small space, trying not to let it touch the
ground. The Greek 'Episkyros' - of which few concrete
details survive - was much livelier, as was the Roman
'Harpastum'. The latter was played out with a smaller
ball by two teams on a rectangular field marked by
boundary lines and a centre line. The objective was to
get the ball over the opposition's boundary lines and
as players passed it between themselves, trickery was
the order of the day. The game remained popular for

700-800 years, but, although the Romans took it to
Britain with them, the use of feet was so small as to
scarcely be of consequence.

5

Picture of Sequence Text

6

Compare and Contrast

'Baseball is what we were; football is what we have
become' (Mary McGory). Both baseball and football
are very popular American sports. Both sports can be
played at any age. Both sports have a college league,
a professional league called the NFL for football and
the for baseball's is the MLB, and a league for kids.
Baseball is called the all American sport. Many
Americans enjoy watching both sports. Although
football and baseball are two phenomenal sports, they
also have many similarities and differences. The
sports football and baseball are alike in many ways.
Both sports have a playoff/tournament system for
later in the season which involves the teams with the
best records in their conference. The playoff system
of football and baseball is set up as a bracket in which
two teams play each other until there are two teams
left. These two teams then play in the Championship
game. Football's championship game is known as the
Super Bowl and baseball's is known as the World
Series. Lastly Both football and baseball are team
sports. They both have several positions that the
players are assigned to. Also both sports have a ball
that gets thrown to other players. There are many

similarities in football and baseball. Football and
baseball also have many differences. They are played
at different times of the year. Football is played in the
fall and baseball is played in the spring. Also the
amount of contact that is involved in both sports is
different because pads are not used pads in baseball
and in football there are pads. These pads change the
amount of contact players have. Football has only
eleven players allowed on the field at one time and
baseball only allows nine. Also a football is kicked
and thrown, while a baseball can only be thrown. Also
Football and baseball both have rules that must be
followed. In football there are referees and in baseball
there are umpires. A referee travels all over the field,
calling penalties, determining if the player ran or
caught the ball out of bounds, and determining picked
up the fumble. On the other hand a umpire stays in
one spot of the ball diamond, watches where the ball
goes, and if the player was tagged with the ball and
the home plate. In football players only receive a
penalty for not following the rules, while in baseball
not following the rules results in an ejection from the
game. These two phenomenal sports baseball and
football have many similarities and differences.
Football and baseball have many similarities such as
what type of sports they are, the playoffs later in both

seasons, type of field they are played on, and the age
you can start to play these sports. But they also have
many differences. For instance, how long each game
is, the time of year that they are played in, and the
amount of contact that is allowed. A season of football
or baseball is a season to remember.

7

Picture of Compare and
Contrast Text

8

Cause and Effect

In the course of a regular game, football players
undergo multiple collisions involving their heads. The
exact number and severity of these collisions varies
on playing position and other factors, but concussion
is an ongoing risk. When you have head injuries, you
get a concussion, the brain’s cells are stretched or
injured in a way that can affect your mental and
physical well being. Such damage can be avoided if
players have the proper amount of rest after a
concussion, but many coaches and players operate
under a code of toughness. The result can be brain
damage, with effects felt immediately in the form of
dizziness, imbalance and head pain, as well as later in
the form of balance issues, clinical depression and
more.

9

Picture of Cause and Effect

10

Problem and Solution

Football helmets are creating more problems than
they solve ..... well-proportioned mix of awareness,
instruction and regulation is the solution. Anybody
who has played will tell you the perilous truth:
Football with and without pads could be two different
sports. That helmet changes everything. It's an
alarming distinction. The piece of equipment
developed to protect the player is instead a fateful
hazard. "It's referred to as risk compensation, or ​risk
homeostasis,​ " Dr. Erik Swartz told Sporting News.
"When a player has a body part that's protected, and
the contact with somebody else is imminent, you're
going to put your protected body part first, just
reflexively." Swartz, a former rugby player, is a
kinesiology professor at the University of New
Hampshire. It's there he implemented a​ two-year study
to test the effectiveness of what he calls the
Helmetless Tackling Training Technique. That's right
... no helmets. Inspired by a clear difference in
tackling habits between football and rugby, Swartz
developed the procedure hoping to train football
players to "keep their heads out of the game."

11

Picture of Problem and Solution

12

All about the Author

Hi my name is Neil Pachani, I like the
colors red, blue and green. I really like
Tacos and I like legos. I really like to
read anything like a comic to a chapter
book. I like batman and the flash and
other superheros and I like the
supervillains. My favorite class is art and
my friend is Harris Ahmed.