Posts Tagged ‘Rugby football’

The establishment of modern codes of football

Posted by Nicolae on June 29th, 2008 under Football, Football (Soccer), Sport
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English public schools
Match at Winchester College around 1840.
The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools — mainly attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes — comes from the Vulgaria by William Horman in 1519. Horman had been headmaster at Eton and Winchester [...]

Football

Posted by Nicolae on June 27th, 2008 under Football, Football (Soccer), Sport
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Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. By far the most popular of these worldwide is Association football, which also goes by the name of soccer. The English language word football is also applied to Rugby football (Rugby union and Rugby league), North American [...]