From the History of Football
Football is a very old sport, but it was no laughing matter in the early days. Two villages battled to kick a ball made from a pig’s intestine to a goal. The goals were things like trees or buildings and could be as much as five miles apart. The game, which was sometimes extremely violent, could go on from sunrise to sunset. A more controlled form of the game began to be played in England’s public schools in the early nineteenth century. Each school played a different version of the game and the rules varied greatly.
In 1863, a Football Association was established and the members met to decide on the rules. It had taken five meeting before they could all agree.
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