Foosball
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1960s: from German Fussball ‘football’.
wiktionary
From German Fußball, itself a calque of English football.
etymonline
foosball (n.)
debuted in U.S. 1963 and was a craze on some college campuses for a few years thereafter. Said to have been designed c. 1930s in Switzerland. The name is presumably from the pronunciation of Fußball, the German form of (Association) football.