1. The folk antecedents of modern football -- 2. Public school status rivalry and the early development of football : the cases of Eton and Rugby -- 3. The universities and codification -- 4. The Sheffield footballing sub-culture and other early clubs -- 5. The emergence of the …
by Dunning, Eric, Curry, Graham
fromRoutledge research in sports history
This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the early development of football rules in the middle part of the nineteenth century. The book…