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How football began : a global history of how the world's football codes were born /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Collins, Tony, 1961- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Subjects:	Rugby Football Union > History. Football > History. Football > Social aspects. Soccer > History. Rugby League football > History. Rugby football > History. Rugby football > Australia > History. Football > United States > History. Canadian football > History. Australian football > History. Gaelic football > History. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The failure of the Football Association
2. Before the beginning: folk football
3. The gentleman's game
4. Sheffield: football beyond the metropolis
5. The end of the universal game
6. From the classes to the masses
7. Glasgow: football capital of the nineteenth century
8. The coming of professionalism
9. Kicking against the pricks: women and football
10. Rugby football: a house divided
11. Melbourne: a city and its football
12. Australian rules and the invention of football traditions
13. Ireland: creating Gaelic football
14. Football and nationalism in Ireland and beyond
15. American football: the old game in the New World
16. Canadian football: between scrum and snapback
17. Rugby League football: from people's game to proletarian sport
18. The 1905-07 football crisis in North America
19. The 1905-07 football crisis in rugby
20. Soccer: the modern game for the modern world
21. The global game.