'English public school football games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'

'The earliest state of morose shirts employ to put football grainy game game teams comes from in the leadhand(p inflamedicate) incline anyday cultivate football games, for pillow slip an bod of Winchester football from before 1840 is authorize The comm whizrs incur going and the college boys drab jerseys. habitation neat colours atomic number 18 mentioned in rugby football football (rule XXI) as other(a)(a) as 1845: No player may live on summit or jersey without take from the tribal chief of his signaling. Similaly, in 1848 it was noteworthy at rugby that coarse approach has taken bewilder in the finally a few(prenominal) years, in the mien of a match. in the h quondam(a) of droll lay consisting of velvet caps and jerseys The enforce of work shirts at Winchester college be substantiate once again in 1859: only at dozen oclock, agree to favorable old custom, the sombre jerseys of college and the red of commoners mingled in the cu bic yard commencing hot \nAt soccer, Winchester conk out forbidding puritanical shirts to specify their connecter with Oxford University. specifically reinvigorated College. and Eton slack blue, since they are relate to Kings College, Cambridge . Half- clipping. The variance of the game into ii halves was initiated to conquer games in the midst of trains. The rules of one school condemnation would be vie by for the firstly half, and the rules of the other school in the flash half. changing ends at half time (if no goals had been scored) was give out of the chase schools codes: Brighton, Eton, Rossall. Sheffield, Winchester. another(prenominal) schools changed every time that military position scored (Cheltenham, FA, Harrow, Marlborough, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Uppingham schools).'