Football Gear & Equipment
In July 1858, Tom Wills , an Australian-born cricketer educated at Rugby College in England, wrote a letter to Bell’s Life in Victoria & Sporting Chronicle , calling for a “foot-ball club” with a “code of legal guidelines” to maintain cricketers match during winter. They had neither the time nor … Read the rest
Cornell College
The solution to this downside was usually that the match be divided into two halves, one half performed by the rules of the host “house” college, and the other half by the visiting “away” college. In 1862, J. C. Thring, who had been one of the driving forces behind the … Read the rest