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
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^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007 Version: “In ancient Greece a sport with components of football, episkuros, or harpaston, was performed, and it had migrated to Rome as harpastum by the 2nd century BC”. Public colleges’ dominance of sports activities in the UK started to wane after the Manufacturing unit … Read the rest