1830s in association football

none September 2016 September 2016 1830 association football The following are events in the 1830s decade which are relevant to the development of association football. All events happened in English football unless specified otherwise. Events 1835 – Section 72 of the Highway Act 1835 expressly forbade any person playing at football (or any other game) on any part of the defined highways to the annoyance of passengers. Anyone guilty to be fined a sum not exceeding forty shillings (two pounds sterling).Sanders, p. 11. 1838 – A pupil at Rugby School called Jem Mackie (1821–1867) became noted for his “running in” ability and this is understood to have been the equivalent of try scoring, which is evidence of a distinct handling game.Harris Tim Players: 250 Men, Women and Animals Who Created Modern Sport 2009 Random House 978-1-40-908691-8 https://books.google.com/books?id=klPTonGmpXsC&pg=PT473 Google Books 1839 – A former Rugby School pupil, Albert Pell (1820–1907), began to organise football matches at Cambridge University and is credited with introducing the game of rugby union, which was then simply called football. Pell describes in his autobiography the difficulties of setting up a team.Marshall Howard Jordon, J. P. Oxford v Cambridge, The Story of the University Rugby Match 1951 Clerke & Cockeran London 13 1839 – It is claimed that the foundation of Barnes Rugby Football Club was in 1839 but without actual evidence. If the claim is true, Barnes is the world's oldest football club (all codes).https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2005/11/02/srinve02.xml https://web.archive.org/web/20060208173240/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=%2Fsport%2F2005%2F11%2F02%2Fsrinve02.xml dead 8 February 2006 John Inverdale Inverdale John Barnes RFC founded in 1839? The Telegraph DailyTelegraph 2 November 2005 1 September 2016 Butler Bryon Bryon Butler The Official History of the Football Association 1991 x The Football Association (The FA) 978-0-356-19145-4 Births 15 November 1831 – Alexander Morten (d. 1900), England international captain and goalkeeper. 16 April 1833 – John Malcolm (d. 1902), Scotland international in the first unofficial England v Scotland match References Bibliography Sanders Richard Beastly Fury – The Strange Birth of British Football 2009 Transworld London 978-0-55-381935-9 Category:Association football by decade