Who originally called soccer?

Who originally called soccer?

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The Origin of the Term 'Soccer'

In the 1880s, imaginative students at the University of Oxford began to differentiate between two types of football: 'rugger' for rugby football and 'assoccer' for association football. This second term was eventually clipped to 'soccer' (sometimes spelled 'socker'), and the name quickly gained popularity beyond the university grounds.

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