A meeting is scheduled for October 26, 1863. At the Freemasons’ Tavern in Great Queen Street, London, in the Holborn district, eleven managers of the eleven city clubs in London meet to standardize their football regulations. In those years, various companies began to be founded in England. The first in 1857 was the Sheffield Club, in 1862 Notts County was born in Nottingham. From then on various movements were born and football began its rise. In Trinity College, Cambridge, they had drawn up the first football code a few years before the first cry of a non-university football club.
So 1863 is the right year to set some rules. There was the idea of using both hands and feet, with a physical fight. The second obviously is to use only the feet and yes, there is contact, but not rough. So, in fact, we have the birth of two sports, or almost: the first is rugby, the second is obviously football. Those who pushed for that option then became the members of the FA, the Football Association, the first national football federation.
The difference between the two sports was not immediately so radical, even if football only became a world game during the twentieth century.
