I guess that US football started based on rugby (look a the ball) and when it first started, people didn’t pass the ball. You ran the ball or drop kicked it to try to score a goal or like in Canadian ball, you can kick/punt the ball back to the other team at any point.
So my thinking is that because it tended to kick more than rugby, it became football. These days people pass all the time and kick much less.
In the early days of basketball there was a jump ball after every basket. The it was at the start of the first and second halves and for a “held” (used to be called “jump ball”) ball. Today there is just 1 tip off at the start of the game, then instead of jumping the ball, they award a throw in, rotating from one team to another. This has made defense harder to play, since tying up the ball when the possesion goes to the other team, just slows things up
from wiki answers:
North America style football didn’t used to allow the “forward pass” and much more of the play involved foot work, such as the “drop kick” and the running punt kick. In the first rules, only the ” side pass” was allowed, as long as the two players were side by side, with no forward motion of the ball, similar to rugby rules. The Canadian Football League ( CFL ) still allows a drop kick to score a field goal, and also has a thing called a “rouge” when the kicker is able to kick the ball thru the end zone, so it lands out of play , it is worth 2 points. Both the NFL and the CFL still have the drop-kick available as a weapon – on the point-after-touchdown, or from the field for 3 points. The “rouge” is worth a single point here in Canada.