Football : the first hundred years : the untold story / Adrian Harvey.
This revisionist history of football challenges commonly held beliefs about the birth of the modern game.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Series: | Sport in the global society.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What football was not : the history of Shrove-football
- 2. Entertaining the social elite : football in the public schools and universities 1555-1863
- 3. Football outside the public schools : from American Indians to The origin of the species - 1600-1859
- 4. 'An epoch in the annals of sport' : Britain's first football culture - Sheffield 1857-67
- 5. Footballing backwaters? : London, the FA and the rest 1860-67
- 6. Football splits up but goes national : the creation of a national football culture (1868-73)
- 7. Kicking and carrying : the geographical distribution of sporting rules 1860-73
- 8. Cups, leagues and professionals : rugby and association football 1874-1901
- 9. Conclusions : the real history of the creation of modern football?
- App. Football as an international game.