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The first set of written rules were published by pupils at Rugby School in 1845 and while a number of other clubs based their games on these rules there were still many variations played. The Football Association intended to frame a universal code of laws in 1863, but several newspapers published the 1848 Cambridge rules before they were finalised.
The Cambridge Rules were several formulations of the rules of football made at the University of Cambridge during the nineteenth century. Cambridge Rules are believed to have had a significant influence on the modern football codes. The 1856 Cambridge Rules are claimed by some to have had an influence in the origins of Australian rules football ...
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During the meeting, however, the FA's secretary Ebenezer Cobb Morley brought the delegates' attention to a recently published set of football laws from Cambridge University which banned carrying and hacking. [8] Discussion of the Cambridge rules, and suggestions for possible communication with Cambridge on the subject, served to delay the final ...
The rules of football as played at Rugby School in the 19th century were decided regularly and informally by the pupils. For many years the rules were unwritten. [7] In 1845 three pupils at the school, William Delafield Arnold, Walter Waddington Shirley and Frederick Leigh Hutchins were tasked with writing a codified set of rules by the then Head Schoolboy and football captain Isaac Gregory ...
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The 1856 Cambridge rules, which do survive, explicitly awarded such a free kick: [27] When a player catches the ball directly from the foot, he may kick it as he can without running with it. Other early codes awarding a free kick for a fair catch include Shrewsbury School (1855), [ 28 ] Harrow School (1858), [ 29 ] Sheffield FC (1858), [ 30 ...
The "Cambridge Rules 1848" monument. In 2000, a plaque was erected in Parker's Piece by a football team consisting of homeless people. It bears the following inscription: [15] Here on Parker's Piece, in the 1800s, students established a common set of simple football rules emphasising skill above force, which forbade catching the ball and 'hacking'.