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1876 in sports

The rules are based largely on the English Rugby Football Union's code, though one important difference is the introduction of the touchdown as the primary means of scoring instead of the field goal (a change that will later occur in rugby football itself).

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Walter Camp enrolls at Yale University and will become perhaps the most important figure in college football history.

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7 January — the Glaciarium opens in Chelsea, London, as the world's first artificial ice rink.

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