So just for clarification you are asking about the history of the nomenclature and why sports are called what they are, not the actual development of the sport(rules, first games) and all that?

Hi, if you're interested, there's some more info in this thread (follow the links, there's some fun info in there)

• When and why did the game known as "football" in most of the world become known as "soccer" in the U.S.?

and a few more examples here

• NFL Football is so obviously modeled after Rugby, but named after Soccer. How did that happen?