How Football Began: A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born

by Tony Collins and Tony Collins

Book Overview

This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world.

The book explores how the world's football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113803875X
• ISBN13: 9781138038752
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"