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While much of what you said is true, the US's three biggest sports were all invented here. Baseball, American football and basketball.
not so much
Basketball was invented by a canadian, Naismith.
The first recorded baseball game took place in canada, But it is based on an old english game called rounders.
American football. On May 13 and 14, two games were played in the US between Harvard University and McGill(Canadian). The first was played using Harvard’s rules, which was a game more like soccer and using a round ball, the second was played using McGill(Canadian) rules, with an oval ball.
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/05/14/how-canada-created-american-football-may-14-1874/
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As it turned out the Americans won the first game 3-0, while the second game was a scoreless tie. However, the Harvard squad so enjoyed the Canadian innovations to the game that they introduced them into a match against Yale University the following year. Observers from Princeton also like the game and introduced it to their university
American sources tend to cite this all US game as the start of American football, ignoring the fact that Canada was the source of the Harvard game.
In 1876 a semi- formalized rulebook for was created as the new game took root as a much different sport from the sports of soccer and rugger (rugby), but very much influenced by the Canadian innovations.
While Canada may have initiated such a game, it obviously took American innovation to make it a game that is played today. Pretty much 0for three Lucy.
Then maybe you should be more careful in what you type, dipshit.
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ORIGINAL: Nnanji
While much of what you said is true, the US's three biggest sports were all invented here. Baseball, American football and basketball.
SO its not me who is ignorant.
you can change your goalposts all you want.
It doesnt make what you said in any way correct.
btw
You know that "football" in canada has been around since 1861?
a few years before that game in 1874.
The first documented football match was a practice game played on November 9, 1861, at University College, University of Toronto (approximately 400 yards or 370 metres west of Queen's Park). One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was Sir William Mulock, later Chancellor of the school.[2] A football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear.[citation needed]
The first written account of a game played was on October 15, 1862, on the Montreal Cricket Grounds. It was between the First Battalion Grenadier Guards and the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards resulting in a win by the Grenadier Guards 3 goals, 2 rouges to nothing.[citation needed] In 1864, at Trinity College, Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland, Frederick A. Bethune, and Christopher Gwynn, one of the founders of Milton, Massachusetts, devised rules based on rugby football.[2] The game gradually gained a following, with the Hamilton Football Club formed on November 3, 1869, (the oldest football club in Canada). Montreal formed a team April 8, 1872, Toronto was formed on October 4, 1873, and the Ottawa FBC on September 20, 1876.
This rugby-football soon became popular at Montreal's McGill University. McGill challenged Harvard University to a game, in 1874 using a hybrid game of English rugby devised by the University of McGill.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_football
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