Football: The First Hundred Years: The Untold StoryThe story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of the game, challenging previously widely-accepted beliefs. |
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the history of Shrovefootball | 1 |
football in the public schools and universities 15551863 | 18 |
from American Indians to The Origin of the Species 16001859 | 51 |
Britains first football culture Sheffield 185767 | 92 |
London the FA and the rest 186067
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the creation of a national football culture 186873 | 167 |
the geographical distribution of sporting rules 186073 | 178 |