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The Cambridge Rules appeared in the sporting newspapers on 21 November, three days before the FA meeting. [47] At this crucial 24 November meeting, the "hackers" were again in a narrow majority. During the meeting, however, FA secretary Ebenezer Morley brought the delegates' attention to the Cambridge Rules (which banned carrying and hacking): [51]
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 Laws are the only rules of association football FIFA permits its members to use. [1] The Laws currently allow some minor optional variations which can be implemented by national football associations, including some for play at the lowest levels, but otherwise almost all organised football worldwide is played under the same ruleset.
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The annual Oxford-Cambridge Intervarsity Australian Rules Football Match is the most prolonged running Australian rules football fixture outside Australia. [1] [2] Played as early as 1911, it has been contested annually by men's teams since 1923 between the two longest running clubs outside Australia, the Oxford University Australian Rules Football Club (founded in 1906) and the Cambridge ...
Cambridge University Australian Rules Football Club (CUARFC, also known as the Lions), founded in the early 20th century, is the Australian rules football club for Cambridge University. Both men's and women's teams represent the club in the National University League, [ 1 ] the Fitzpatrick Cup, and the annual Oxford-Cambridge Varsity match ...
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'.