Although the Football Association was founded in 1863 to draw up
simple rules for a game to unite the football community, a unified
code was never to be. In the second of two volumes on the origins
of football, Mike Roberts tells the story of how and why so many
different versions of the same game came into existence. For a
start, in Melbourne, Australia, the local footballers had already
agreed to their own rules before the FA was even formed, and the
game they created is still played today - arguably the oldest and
most 'authentic' member of the football family. Back in Britain,
the clubs that preferred a more physical game in which the ball
could be carried were not convinced by FA's kicking game. Instead,
they formed their own association and developed the rival code of
rugby. And there was yet more division to come with the infamous
schism between rugby union and what became rugby league. But
neither soccer nor rugby were always welcomed in Ireland, which was
fighting to preserve its own separate identity. In defiance against
these foreign games, the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded
and devised its own set of rules. The story also takes us to North
America, and shows how and why rugby was adopted in the United
States but was soon changed into the different sport of American
football. And not forgetting Canada, whose own game developed in a
similar fashion to the American one, but never quite entirely. Each
of these sports have built up their own histories and traditions.
But although these are now usually told separately, by treating
them all as The Same Old Game, Mike Roberts reveals how each of the
codes share a common ancestry. Visit The Same Old Game website for
full details and also to learn about The Same Old Game Volume One:
Before Codification
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