Beginnings of football

Chronology of football

roots of football (before 1835) - beginnings of football (1835-1870) - 1871 in football ---- the beginnings of football recover one period when the play of football builds its payment and its environment. Cuts, championships, federations, supporters and clubs take their roots here.

Chronology (1835-1870)

1835

  • 1835 . Act highway in Great Britain which prohibits the practice of football in the streets. This “folk football” has been already practiced for a few years by Schools Public like Eton since 1747, Westminster since 1749, Rugby, Harrow, Charterhouse, Shrewsbury or Winchester at the time of the dead season: the winter. Cricket, Athletics and Aviron occupies indeed already the calendar of the first beautiful days of spring at the last beautiful days of the autumn. To note that the pupils of the English universities had already tried to introduce football there. In XVIe century, thus, Oxford prohibits the practice of football (1555), while Cambridge banishes it in 1574.

1842

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1847

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1848

  • 1848 . After more than seven hours of debates between the representatives of several schools of Cambridge, “Cambridge Rules” are enacted. It is the first attempt at unification of the various codes. It will still be necessary to wait a half-century before arriving to this unification…

Births

  • May 16th: Ernest Bambridge, English footballer
  • August 22nd: John Brockbank, English footballer

1849

  • 1849 has Cheltenham, one decides that the captains would indicate the “umpires”, the latter having to intend itself to name a “referee”. The umpires, one in each camp, remain on the ground, while the referee is installed in platform. If the umpires cannot fall from agreement on a decision, it is the referee which slices.

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  • March 28th: Reginald Birkett, English footballer

1850

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1852

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  • Alexander Bonsor, English footballer

1854

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1855

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  • June 1st: Walter Buchanan, English footballer

1856

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1857

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1858

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  • July 30th: Edward Bambridge, English footballer

1859

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1860

  • Foundation of the Lausanne Football and Cricket Club, first club apart from England.

1861

Births

  • June 16th: Arthur Bambridge, English footballer
  • Thomas Brindle, English footballer

1862

  • 1862 . J.C. Thring, main attending Uppingham School, publishes a code of football in 10 laws entitled “The simplest range” (the simplest play). Thring is inspired very largely by “Cambridge Rules”. This publication starts again the reflection on the laws of the play, very different from one school to another, within the same university… The meetings are always problematic because each team wants to play according to “her” rules.

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1863

  • October 26th 1863. Foundation of Football Association in Freemason' S Tavern of London by the members of eleven mainly London clubs.

  • November 14th 1863. F adopts its laws of the play, largely inspired by Cambridge Rules and the laws of Thring. 14 laws of the play which prohibit in particular the “hacking”.

  • November 19th 1863. First match disputed according to the rules of F. It is a match without goal which leaves the perplexed observers.

  • December 8th 1863. Confirmation by 13 vote against 4 of the abolition of the hacking and the use of the hands. Blackheath refuses to give up “its” rules close to those of Rugby and leaves F. Blackheath will be at the origin of the creation of Rugby Union football in 1871.

Births

  • February 14th: William Arthur, English footballer
  • August: Albert Bayliss, English footballer
  • September 20th: Andrew Amos, English footballer
  • Edward Brayshaw, English footballer

  • 1860 - 1880. The passage of the “dribbling range” to the “passing range” constitutes a true revolution. In the beginning, football is very individualistic. The players, all attackers, ruent themselves towards the goal ball with the foot, i.e. by connecting the dribbles. It is the “dribbling”. As Michel Platini liked to point out it: “the balloon will go always more quickly than the player”. It is on this simple principle that the “passing range is built”… and football! This innovation appears at the end of the years 1860 and is essential in the years 1880. As of the end of the year 1860, matches between London and Sheffield would have introduced the “passing” in North. It is the version of worthy the Charles Alcock, which locates in 1883 the first true demonstration of “passing” in London by Blackburn Olympic. Between these two dates, the new way of playing finds refuge in Scotland.

1864

Births

  • February 14th: Richard Baugh, English footballer
  • April 13rd: Albert Aldridge, English footballer
  • William Betts, English footballer

1865

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1866

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1867

  • February 16th 1867. First tower of the first competition of football: the Youdan Cup. It gathers 12 formations: Mechanics, Garrick, Hallam, Norfolk, Broomhall, Milton, Norton, Mackenzie, Heeley, Fir Vale, Pitsmoor and Wellington.

  • March 5th 1867. Finale of Youdan Cup in Bramall Lane. Hallam gains the money cut concerned by the sponsor Tommy Youdan by being essential 2-0 vis-a-vis Norfolk.

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1868

  • February 1868. Finale of the Cut organized by Sheffield F (Cromwell Cup). Four clubs, only, take share there. It is necessary indeed that the club is localized in Sheffield (Hallam, winner 1867, was of Norfolk) and that it has less than two years of age. The Wednesday finally removes the first trophy of its history while being essential vis-a-vis Garrick in front of 600 spectators with Bramall Lane.

1869

  • November 6th: According to the American sporting vulgate, this date is marked by the behavior of the first university American football game. Rutgers is essential 6-4 vis-a-vis the College off New Jersey (future Princeton). According to research of the historian Stephen Fox, this match of " New York Ball" could be a match of Football. Princeton and the NFL admits from now on this version.

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1870

  • 1870 . Creation of the station of goalkeeper. This last can seize the ball with the hands in a zone initially limited to three yards around its goal. The post of guard exists, but it does not have a holder, the player nearest of the goals moulting himself automatically as a goalkeeper.
  • March 5th 1870. Nonofficial international match enters the England and the Scotland to London (Kennington Oval): 0-0.

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