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How Football Began: A Global History of How the World’s Football Codes Were Born PDF

218 Pages·2018·7.3 MB·English
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‘The origins of football’s many codes and their complex relationship to each other has been one of sporting history's great grey areas, dominated by hearsay and invention. No longer. Tony Collins’ cool and illuminating How Football Began brings range, precision and sources to bear on the matter. As is often the case, the truths that emerge are infinitely more interesting than the myths they dispel.’ David Goldblatt, Author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football and The Game of Our Lives HOW FOOTBALL BEGAN This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes – soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic – developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football. Tony Collins is Emeritus Professor of History in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, UK. His previous books include Rugby’s Great Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain, A Social History of English Rugby Union and The Oval World – each of which won the Lord Aberdare prize for sports history book of the year – as well as his global history Sport in Capitalist Society. HOW FOOTBALL BEGAN A Global History of How the World’s Football Codes Were Born Tony Collins First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 Tony Collins The right of Tony Collins to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-03874-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-03875-2 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-17721-2 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC The cover of the paperback version of this book is based on the cover of the 1867 Routledge Handbook of Football. CONTENTS List of plates ix Introduction 1 1 The failure of the Football Association 4 2 Before the beginning: folk football 10 3 The gentleman’s game 17 4 Sheffield: football beyond the metropolis 24 5 The end of the universal game 31 6 From the classes to the masses 38 7 Glasgow: football capital of the nineteenth century 47 8 The coming of professionalism 53 9 Kicking against the pricks: women and football 65 10 Rugby football: a house divided 75 viii Contents 11 Melbourne: a city and its football 82 12 Australian Rules and the invention of football traditions 90 13 Ireland: creating Gaelic football 98 14 Football and nationalism in Ireland and beyond 109 15 American football: the old game in the new world 116 16 Canadian football: between scrum and snapback 127 17 Rugby league football: from people’s game to proletarian sport 139 18 The 1905–07 football crisis in North America 147 19 The 1905-07 football crisis in world rugby 154 20 Soccer: the modern game for the modern world 163 21 The global game 176 Bibliography 182 Index 200 PLATES 1 Folk football at Kingston-upon-Thames, Shrove Tuesday 1846 (Illustrated London News, 28 February 1846) 11 2 Sheffield F.C.’s rulebook, 1859 27 3 Soccer or Rugby? The 1872 England versus Scotland rugby international (The Graphic, 24 February 1872) 35 4 The Goal: launched in 1873 as probably the first dedicated football weekly 41 5 Football turned upside-down. Blackburn Olympic defeat Old Etonians to win the FA Cup in 1883 (Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 7 April 1883) 59 6 Women footballers defy the FA ban: match programme for Stoke versus Dick, Kerr’s in 1923 72 7 Rugby on the verge of split: cartoon satirising the RFU’s suspension of Huddersfield (Yorkshire Owl, 15 November 1893) 80 8 Scrummaging in early Australian Rules football (The Australasian Sketcher, 12 June 1875) 92 9 K erry GAA great Dick Fitzgerald’s 1913 handbook for Gaelic footballers 106 10 Quarterback passing from the scrimmage during the 1889 Yale versus Princeton match (Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 7 December 1889) 121 11 An 1892 guide to Canadian football (The Dominion Illustrated Monthly, February 1892) 128 12 A 1909 Australian amateur view of the threat of professionalism in rugby, with anti-Semitic overtones (Rugby Football League Archive, Huddersfield) 158

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