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Sure, but the term Football wasn't coined when ball games were invented. It was coined much later when there were already lots of different sports.
Among the sports people people played at the time, Football was one where the participants are on foot.
Most sports were played (and still are) on foot
Look I get your point but neither my original theory (foot = kicking) or yours (foot = not on horse) have been proven to be the "real" source of the word football today; maybe it's one or the other OR influenced by both sources
this is an interesting read wherever you might sit on the name origin theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football
particularly the history section