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12 March 1820 – Albert Pell (d. 1907), an early influence on the rules of football. 18 May 1821 – Jem Mackie (d. 1867), an early influence on the rules of football. References
Latvia is the first football team from the Baltic states to make an appearance in a major football competition, UEFA Euro 2004. 2004 in football; Greece produce one of the shocks in football history and become surprise winners of the Euro 2004 football tournament, defeating hosts Portugal 1–0 in the final. Waitakere United is founded.
1820s in sports (18 C, 2 P) 1830s in sports ... 19th century in Australian rules football (5 C) B. 19th century in ... This page was last edited on 30 January 2021, ...
Princeton University students played a game called "ballown" as early as 1820. [17] A Native American college football team of 1879. A Harvard tradition known as "Bloody Monday" began in 1827, which consisted of a mass ballgame between the freshman and sophomore classes. In 1860, both the town police and the college authorities agreed the ...
Early football leagues in the U.S. mostly used the name football leagues: for example, the American Football Association (founded in 1884), the American Amateur Football Association (1893), the American League of Professional Football (1894), the National Association Foot Ball League (1895), and the Southern New England Football League (1914).
1839 – A former Rugby School pupil, Albert Pell (1820–1907), began to organise football matches at Cambridge University and is credited with introducing the game of rugby union, which was then simply called football. Pell describes in his autobiography the difficulties of setting up a team.
1820s in English sport (1 C) This page was last edited on 14 July 2021, at 22:28 (UTC). Text is available under the ... This page was last edited on 14 July 2021, ...
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