1860s In Football (soccer)

EVENTS

1862 – An assistant teacher of Uppingham School , John Charles Thring , was create ten rules of football inspired at The Cambridge Rules , best-known "The Simplest Game".

1863 , October 26 – The Football Association was founded at Freemason's Tavern, in Great Queen Street in London. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse . The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five more meetings between October and December , which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the first FA treasurer, who was the representative from Blackheath , withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting, the first which allowed for the running with the ball in hand and the second, obstructing such a run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins), tripping and holding. Other English Rugby Clubs Followed This Lead and did not join the FA but instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union . The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley , went on to ratify the original fourteen rules of the game. Despite this, the Sheffield FA played by its own rules until the 1870s.

(the winners), Heeley, Mackenzie, Mechanics, Milton, Norfolk, Norton, Pitsmoor, Wellington; British railway workers play Argentina's first recorded football match.

1869 , November 6 – First official match (Rutgers University vs. Princeton University) played with original 14 FA rules.

BIRTHS

1863 , January 9 – David Danskin , english footballer and co-founder of Arsenal F.C.

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