Image: Athletics and football (1894) (14777984175)

Description: Scene of a football match. Text Appearing Before Image: s goal, and to prevent the opponents from doing thelike ; no player but the goal-keeper being at liberty to use hishands or arms throughout the game. Such is the simple gamewhich has now been brought to such an extraordinary pitch ofskill that none but those who have seen can well appreciate, andwhich is so well appreciated by those who have seen that it is-no rare thing for ten or twelve thousand spectators to watch andfollow a match with interest. The dribbling game, if the theory we have given above becorrect, grew up entirely at the schools where running with theball and tackhng the runners was dangerous to clothes andlimbs. Each of the old schools had, as we have seen, its owngame, differing in almost every point.except in the essentialfeature of the prohibition of tackling and running with the ball,and it was not until the old pubhc-school boys felt drawn toform clubs to play the game again when their school-days wereover, that the necessity for assimilation of rules arose. Then Text Appearing After Image:: THE ASSOCIATION GAME 359 the dribblers associated themselves in 1863, more than sevenyears before the Rugby Unionists, so that nearly a quarter of acentury has already passed over the Association rules, whichhave varied but Httle, much as the style of play has alteredduring that time. Almost from its earliest days the Associationhas provided that a goal shall be won when the ball passesbetween the goal-posts under the tape, not being thrown,knocked on, or carried, and that no player shall carry, orknock on the ball, and handling the ball under any pretencewhatever shall be prohibited, except in the case of the goal-keeper, and further that no player shall use his hands to holdor push his adversary; and so, without any substantial variation,has the game remained, and is likely to remain, as long as it isplayed. So few have been the changes of rules and of tactics in thedribbling game that the task of describing the phases of Asso-ciation play is simpler than to follow the changes of Ru
Title: Athletics and football (1894) (14777984175)
Credit: Scanned from Athletics and Football, by Montague Shearman, edited by Longmans, Greens & Co, London, 1894
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