These efforts have contributed to the Football Association

These efforts have contributed to the Football Association (FA) form in 1863, which met for the first time on the morning of October 26, 1863 at the Masonic cafe in Great Queen Street, London. ) and the only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. Masonic Tavern was the preparation of more than five meetings between October and December, which eventually produces a comprehensive set of rules first. At the closing meeting, the first treasurer of the Union, and a representative from Blackheath, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules of procedure at the previous meeting, the first may run with the ball in his hand, and secondly prevents such run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the legs), and the faltering of the contract.


Other English clubs rugby football, and followed this lead does not join the Football Association, or later, the FA and instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union. The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, went to the original thirteen laws of the game to ratify. ) and these rules also deal with the ball of the "signs" and the absence of the bar, and the rules which have remarkably similar to Victorian rules football being developed at that time in Australia. Sheffield Football Association made its way in 1870 with the FA absorbing some of its rules of procedure so there was a significant difference between the games.