A Devilish Pastime: ​A history of football in all its forms
  • Welcome
  • Introduction
  • Chapters & extracts
    • 1. Folk football and the Puritans
    • 2. Chaos in pre-FA times
    • 3. Rugby in the 1860s
    • 4. American football spreads in the 1880s and 90s
    • 5. The Football League is born
    • 6. Soccer hits Latin America
    • 7. Gaelic football takes shape – 1880s–90s
    • 8. Melbourne goes Aussie Rules mad
    • 9. Rugby union and South Africa – 1990s
    • 10. The NFL's shaky start
    • 11. Rugby league after WW2
    • 12. Soccer in the seventies
    • 13. Canadian football hits US TV
    • 14. Speedball and volata
    • Epilogue: Mudball in Harrow
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Links to many web resources can be found in the ebook itself; here is a small selection of them.

Miscellaneous
Author's page on Facebook
British Society of Sports History
International Centre for Sports History and Culture
LA84 Foundation
Napit.co.uk Sports Database
North American Society for Sport History
Sports Quotes
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Folk football
Experience Ashbourne History: Royal Shrovetide Football

Rugby
Blackheath FC
Rugby Football History
Rugby League Central
Rugby Reloaded (Tony Collins)

Soccer
The Football History Boys
Planet World Cup
Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

American and Canadian football
College Football Data Warehouse
Professional Football Researchers’ Association (highly recommended!)
Pro Football Reference

Australian Rules football
Australian Football

Gaelic football
Hogan Stand

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  • Welcome
  • Introduction
  • Chapters & extracts
    • 1. Folk football and the Puritans
    • 2. Chaos in pre-FA times
    • 3. Rugby in the 1860s
    • 4. American football spreads in the 1880s and 90s
    • 5. The Football League is born
    • 6. Soccer hits Latin America
    • 7. Gaelic football takes shape – 1880s–90s
    • 8. Melbourne goes Aussie Rules mad
    • 9. Rugby union and South Africa – 1990s
    • 10. The NFL's shaky start
    • 11. Rugby league after WW2
    • 12. Soccer in the seventies
    • 13. Canadian football hits US TV
    • 14. Speedball and volata
    • Epilogue: Mudball in Harrow
  • Author
  • Reviews
  • Buy
  • Contact
  • Blog