[FreeReign]

McGill has a football program?

[SoCal Pubbie]

The reason we have American football is because McGill came to Harvard to play rugby in 1874. The rugby rules began to evolve and with the introduction of the series of downs, like of scrimmage, and finally the forward pass in 1906, the gridiron game left its rugby origins behind.

If you didn't know, Canadian football is a variation of the gridiron game, which developed separately from the American version. They didn't legalize the forward pass until 1925, for example. This guy isn't the first Canadian college player to make the NFL.