Oldest soccer rules book sells for $1.4 million at auction - ESPN

[victor steinbok]

Agreed on both counts. Two "buts"--rugby, at least at some point (and still
occasionally today) was listed as "rugby football"; and irrespectively of
Association Football's existence in 1857, the point is that "cross-bar" was
used in its current meaning even in that narrow context before 1875. If it
wasn't 1857, it would have been 1863, at the formation.

VS-)

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:26 PM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:

>
> Association Football only started in 1863, that is, as "football of the
> football association of London", so references prior to that - such as 1857
> - were about precursors, not about association football, which is what the
> encyclopedia is about. The goal being over the crossbar sounds like a
> version of Rugby.
> DAD
>
>

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