The Emergence of Football
Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Peter Swain
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The Emergence of Football
Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Peter Swain
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The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people's game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution.
The book challenges conventional histories of nineteenth-century football that surrounded mass games and the public schools and extends the revisionist critique of those histories with the imaginative use of new and original empirical evidence. It outlines the continuing presence of a working-class footballing culture across the century, arguing that the structure of football was a product of industrialisation, urbanisation and population growth that had resulted in a far-reaching restructuring of the class system and urban hierarchies. It was these new hierarchies and class system that gave birth to professional football by the late 1870s.
It is essential reading for students of sports studies, economic, social and cultural history, urban and local history, and sociology, as well as a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football across the world. This is an absorbing and fascinating read for any of the millions of fans of the game who are interested in the early history of football.
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1 A short history of early football
Moreover, to begin with the sports of the boys (for we have all been boys), annually on the day which is called Shrovetide, the boys of the respective schools bring each a fighting cock to their master, and the whole of that forenoon is spent by the boys in seeing their cocks fight in the school-room. After dinner, all the young men of the city go out into the fields to play at the well-known game of foot-ball. The scholars belonging to the several schools have each their ball; and the city tradesmen, according to their respective crafts, have theirs. The more aged men, the fathers of the players, and the wealthy citizens, come on horseback to see the contests of the young men, with whom, after their manner, they participate, their natural heat seeming to be aroused by the sight of so much agility, and by their participation in the amusements of unrestrained youth.4
After luncheon the entire youth of the city (sc. London) goes to the fields for the famous game of ball (pila). The students of the several branches of study have their ball; the followers of the several trades of the city (have) a ball on their hands. The elders, the fathers, and men of wealth come on horseback to view the contests of (their) juniors, and in their fashion sport with the young men; and there seems to be aroused in them (sc. The elders) a stirring of natural heat by viewing so much activity and by participation in the joys of the unrestrained (liberious) youth.6
Four and twenty bobby boysWere playing at the ba’,And by it came him sweet Sir Hugh,And he play’d o’er them a’.
He kicked the ba’ with his right foot,And catch’d it wi his knee,And throuch-and-thro’ the Jew’s windowHe gard the bonny ba’ flee.12
spread over the fields … some they gan to ride [horses]; some they gan to race [on foot]; some they gan to leap, [and] some they gan to shoot; some they [there] wrestled, and contest made; some they in [the] field played under shield; some they drove balls wide over [over all] the fields.15
As it fell out on a holy day,The drops of rain did fall, did fall,Our Saviour asked leave of His mother, May,If He might go play at ball.
To play at ball, my own dear Son,It’s time you was going or gone,But be sure let me hear no complaint of you,At night when you do come home.
It was upling scorn and downling scorn!Oh, there He met three jolly jerdinsOh, there He asked the three jolly jerkinsIf they would go play at ball.