The origins of football in England are usually traced back to the mid-19th century. What happened before this is glazed over as mob football, the facts of which have supposedly been lost to time. Some may argue football's beginnings lay in 1863 when the basis for the modern Laws of the Game were drawn up by the Football Association. But there were earlier attempts to draft a set of rules. Rugby School, Eton and Sheffield Football Clu all codified their own laws in 1840s and 1850s. And going back even further in Scotland an Edinburgh-based Foot-Ball Club were recorded as meeting as early as 1824. ​

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The full article is available to read in article 57 of The Blizzard magazine.