Despite being almost years ago, there is a surprising amount of historical evidence for this game. Somewhere in the region of 1, courts have been discovered around Central America and even some of the rubber balls they would have used have been found almost perfectly preserved in bogs in the area. And members of the losing team could even be sacrificed! The first mention of soccer in Scotland goes all the way back to when King James I outlawed the game because he felt it was too disruptive.
Multiple Acts of Parliament were also passed in the years after this trying to ban the sport from being played. At this time, it was an incredibly violent game.
Scotlands claim to over the invention or origins of soccer is based around these facts but also around the fact that the oldest existing football in the world was discovered in the Royal Palace at Stirling Castle and dates from around As with Scotland, the first record of soccer in England was in a proclamation by the reigning monarch at the time. King Henry IV issued a decree to ban soccer from being played.
It seems that the British royal family in the middle ages were not fans of soccer! However, it was in England in the 19th century was when the modern game of soccer really began to take shape. At the beginning of the s, soccer was played in England by the majority of schools and universities. The problem was that there was no universally accepted set of rules that all games had to follow, and each school or university had its own set of rules. This meant that one rule that was strictly adhered to in one part of the country was not even considered in another part.
This frequently became a problem when two teams from different places tried to play against each other. It led to a lot of disagreements and confusion. In teachers from a variety of different schools across the south of England gathered at Trinity College, Cambridge University, with the intention of creating a common rulebook for soccer.
Although, at this time, these rules still allowed for the use of hands in the game, the amount the ball could be handled was reduced. The next significant step to creating a universally accepted set of rules took place in in Sheffield, England. Similar to what had been happening in the south of England, different schools, universities, and clubs across the north of England had been playing the game with different rules depending on where they were.
In a number of clubs all came together to formalize a common set of rules to reduce the confusion. Share: Facebook Twitter. Commenting is closed on this page, though you can read some previous comments below which may answer some of your questions. Well not every sport, as there is a list of unusual sports , extinct sports and newly created sports. How to get on these lists? See What is a sport? There is evidence in China that military forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC Han Dynasty played a game, originally named "Tsu Chu", that involved kicking a leather ball stuffed with fur into a small hole.
Like Soccer, no hands were permitted during the play of the game. C There was possibly a version of a type of ball game played by young women in Egypt during the age of Baqet III, as images of this sport were depicted on his tomb, though there is not much known of this sport except that it was played with a ball. The Japanese version of 'soccer' was called Kemari, a game much like modern hacky sack, played with two to twelve players, and played a larger ball stuffed with sawdust.
There was also a field designated by four trees cherry, maple, pine and willow. In ancient Greece , they played a game called Episkyros, in which two equal numbered teams would try to throw the ball over the heads of the other team. Soccer was reinvented in the 19th century in England.
By this time, soccer was still a mash of rugby procedures and typical soccer procedures. Players could still handle the ball and grapple. While high tackles were penalized, and the goalkeepers were already in place at both ends, the post had no bars.
This form of soccer was played in British public schools. There was no defined size of the ball, the duration of a soccer match, and no limit on the number of players each team could feature. Elton and Rugby were the schools leading the soccer evolution in Britain through the s. While at Rugby, players could maneuver the ball with their hands and their feet, the games at Elton rules were to move the ball with feet alone, involving technique with the leg.
Therefore the Elton variant was the closest relative of modern football. This a mix between rugby and soccer continued until a revolutionary meeting in Cambridge in to stipulate the laws of the game. Deliberations would continue until when the first Football Association formed on October 26, The FA restricted the carrying of the ball with hands in open play, while tripping and shin-kicking was also outlawed from soccer.
The size of the ball was decided as well as the weight. The Blackheath club preferred to retain the physicality or violence inherent in rugby hence they left and eleven clubs agreed to remain with the football association and formally abide by the newly formed rules of gameplay. The resultant effect of this was the formal separation between soccer and rugby as we have them today.
While soccer has been famous in England since the fifteenth century, it lacked the organization and formality we see in the game today. Small communities and teams of players existed. Formal soccer clubs began in Edinburgh far back in Before now, they played soccer between school teams. The oldest soccer club today is Notts County, which formed in , in Nottingham, England.
This early form of football was also much more rough and violent than the modern way of playing. An important feature of the forerunners to football was that the games involved plenty of people and took place over large areas in towns an equivalent was played in Florence from the 16th century where it was called Calcio. The rampage of these games would cause damage on the town and sometimes death to the participants. These would be among the reasons for the proclamations against the game that finally was forbidden for several centuries.
But the football-like games would return to the streets of London in the 17th century. It would be forbidden again in , but at this stage the game had been established in the public schools. For a long time there was no clear distinction between football and rugby.
There were also many variations concerning the size of the ball, the number of players and the length of a match. The game was often played in schools and two of the predominant schools were Rugby and Eton. At Rugby the rules included the possibility to take up the ball with the hands and the game we today know as rugby has its origin from here. At Eton on the other hand the ball was played exclusively with the feet and this game can be seen as a close predecessor to the modern football.
An attempt to create proper rules for the game was done at a meeting in Cambridge in , but a final solution to all questions of rules was not achieved. Another important event in the history of football came about in in London when the first Football association was formed in England. It was decided that carrying the ball with the hands wasn't allowed. The meeting also resulted in a standardization of the size and weight of the ball.
A consequence of the London meeting was that the game was divided into two codes: association football and rugby. The game would, however, continue to develop for a long time and there was still much flexibility concerning the rules. For one thing, the number of players on the pitch could vary. Neither were uniforms used to distinguish the appearance of the teams. It was also common with players wearing caps — the header was yet to be a part of the game yet.
Further reading: The development of football rules. Another important difference at this stage could be noticed between English and Scottish teams. Whereas the English teams preferred to run forward with the ball in a more rugby fashion, the Scottish chose to pass the ball between their players.
It would be the Scottish approach that soon became predominant. The sport was at first an entertainment for the British working class. Unprecedented amounts of spectators, up to 30,, would see the big matches in the late 19th century. The game would soon expand by British peoples who traveled to other parts of the world.
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