Editing College football (section)

===Rugby football in Great Britain and Canada===
Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as "football", played at [[Public school (United Kingdom)|public schools]] in Great Britain in the mid-19th century. By the 1840s, students at [[Rugby School]] were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as [[rugby football]]. The game was taken to Canada by British soldiers stationed there and was soon being played at Canadian colleges.

The first documented gridiron football game was played at [[University College, University of Toronto|University College]], a college of the [[University of Toronto]], on November 9, 1861. One of the participants in the game involving [[University of Toronto]] students was [[William Mulock]], later chancellor of the school. A football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play then are unclear.

In 1864, at [[Trinity College (University of Toronto)|Trinity College]], also a college of the University of Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland and Frederick A. Bethune devised rules based on rugby football. Modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians. The game gradually gained a following, and the [[Montreal Football Club]] was formed in 1868, the first recorded non-university football club in Canada.