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Murphy, Brendan (2007). From Sheffield with Love. Sports Book Limited. pp.41–43. ISBN 978-1-899807-56-7. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023 . Retrieved 23 July 2018.

History of Football – The Origins". FIFA. Archived from the original on 24 April 2013 . Retrieved 29 April 2013. The iconic ball with a regular pattern of hexagons and pentagons (see truncated icosahedron) did not become popular until the 1960s, and was first used in the World Cup in 1970. FIFA.com. "History of Football – The Origins". Archived from the original on 28 October 2017 . Retrieved 1 November 2017. Sports Attendance, Australia, 2005–06". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 25 January 2007. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010 . Retrieved 19 February 2010.

The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007 Edition: "In ancient Greece a game with elements of football, episkuros, or harpaston, was played, and it had migrated to Rome as harpastum by the 2nd century BC". Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers (NFC,13-3) defeated Cincinnati Bengals (AFC,12-4), Score: 26-21

A more detailed description of football is given in Francis Willughby's Book of Games, written in about 1660. [55] Willughby, who had studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, is the first to describe goals and a distinct playing field: "a close that has a gate at either end. The gates are called Goals." His book includes a diagram illustrating a football field. He also mentions tactics ("leaving some of their best players to guard the goal"); scoring ("they that can strike the ball through their opponents' goal first win") and the way teams were selected ("the players being equally divided according to their strength and nimbleness"). He is the first to describe a "law" of football: "they must not strike [an opponent's leg] higher than the ball". [56] [57]a b Cox, Richard William; Russell, Dave; Vamplew, Wray (2002). Encyclopedia of British Football. Routledge. p.243. ISBN 978-0-7146-5249-8. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016 . Retrieved 23 July 2018. For a long time, the British teams would be dominant. After some decades, clubs from Prague, Budapest and Sienna would be the primarily contenders to the British dominance. Irish inventions: fact and fiction". Carlow-nationalist.ie. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012 . Retrieved 16 April 2012.

Association, The Football. "Law 1: The Field of Play – Football Rules & Governance | The FA". The Football Association. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015 . Retrieved 27 September 2015. Lewis, Guy M. (1969). "Teddy Roosevelt's Role in the 1905 Football Controversy". The Research Quarterly. 40 (4): 717–724. PMID 4903389. The boom in rail transport in Britain during the 1840s meant that people were able to travel farther and with less inconvenience than they ever had before. Inter-school sporting competitions became possible. However, it was difficult for schools to play each other at football, as each school played by its own rules. The solution to this problem was usually that the match be divided into two-halves, one half played by the rules of the host "home" school, and the other half by the visiting "away" school. Richard, Carew. "EBook of The Survey of Cornwall". Project Gutenberg. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007 . Retrieved 3 October 2007. Sports". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021 . Retrieved 20 April 2021.Allaway, Roger (2001). "Were the Oneidas playing soccer or not?". The USA Soccer History Archives. Dave Litterer. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007 . Retrieved 15 May 2007. Australian rules football – officially known as "Australian football", and informally as "football", "footy" or "Aussie rules". In some areas it is referred to as " AFL", the name of the main organising body and competition History of Football – Britain, the home of Football". FIFA. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013 . Retrieved 15 June 2018.