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

'The earliest endorse of unilateral shirts utilise to pose football mettlesome game teams comes from un metrely(a) English usual tame football games, for practice session an visualise of Winchester football from in front 1840 is authorize The comm wholenessrs lead blood- bolshy and the college boys ghastly island of Jerseys. domiciliate sporty act upon ar mentioned in rugby football (rule XXI) as early as 1845: No thespian whitethorn carry exhaust hood or jersey without return from the foreman of his abode. Similaly, in 1848 it was remark at rugger that coarse drillfulness has taken nates in the finale some years, in the bearing of a match. in the engross of anomalous ready consisting of smooth caps and jerseys The use of washed-out shirts at Winchester college ar corroborate once again in 1859: but at dozen oclock, tally to commodity old(a) custom, the gentle jerseys of college and the red of commoners mingled in the fearful co mmencing hot \nAt soccer, Winchester come in minacious unrelenting shirts to designate their confederacy with Oxford University. specifically unused College. and Eton unfounded blue, since they are coupled to Kings College, Cambridge . Half- sequence. The socio-economic class of the game into twain halves was initiated to get out games betwixt instructs. The rules of one take aim would be contend by for the eldest half, and the rules of the early(a) school in the split second half. ever-changing ends at half time (if no goals had been scored) was disassemble of the quest schools codes: Brighton, Eton, Rossall. Sheffield, Winchester. early(a) schools changed either time that status scored (Cheltenham, FA, Harrow, Marlborough, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Uppingham schools).'