Football
Events
- Blackheath Rugby Club founded. It claims to be the world’s oldest "open" rugby football club given that Liverpool FC (see 1857 in sports) is no longer a single entity.
- Edinburgh Academicals RFC is founded and is the oldest football club (all codes) in Scotland.
- 21 October — first written version of the Sheffield Rules is introduced at the first annual general meeting of Sheffield FC for use in its matches
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)