During the early 1860s, there were rising attempts in England to unify and reconcile the varied public faculty games. Throughout the latter half of the 1870s, colleges taking part in affiliation football switched to the Rugby code. Over the years, Canada absorbed a few of the developments in American football … Read the rest
Category: Football
In July 1858, Tom Wills , an Australian-born cricketer educated at Rugby College in England, wrote a letter to Bell’s Life in Victoria & Sporting Chronicle , calling for a “foot-ball club” with a “code of legal guidelines” to maintain cricketers match during winter. They had neither the time nor … Read the rest